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Tally-Counter
Tally-Counter is a quite helpful, easy to be used and simple tool for counting… whatever you may think or imagine. Count people, objects, cars, birds, dots, clouds, ants; Count everything! It’s all a tap away with Tally-Counter being your assistant right into your hand. No more need to remember, no more need to write down…
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Background Transfer Service in iOS 7 SDK: How To Download File in Background
In a previous tutorial I presented a specific new multitasking feature in iOS 7, the Background Fetch, showing how easy it is to make an app to schedule downloads in the background. In this tutorial, I am going to work with another great multitasking feature, named Background Transfer Service. Prior to iOS 7, only a…
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Adding Animated Effects to iOS App Using UIKit Dynamics
In the recent tutorials, it has been underlined that iOS 7 has brought along great new features. Many new frameworks, libraries and APIs have been exposed to developers, letting them create modern and engaging applications and attract more users. One of them is the UIKit Dynamics library, integrated right into the UIKit framework, allowing the…
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Exploring the Multipeer Connectivity framework: Game Logic
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a simple, multi-player game using the Multipeer Connectivity framework that was introduced in iOS 7. In the first installment of this series, we laid the foundation of the game. In this article, we’ll implement the game logic. Read the full tutorial on MobileTuts+
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Exploring the Multipeer Connectivity framework: Project Setup
As with every major release, iOS 7 includes many new APIs that developers can take advantage of in their applications. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at a brand new framework introduced in iOS 7, the Multipeer Connectivity framework. This framework adds support for discovering, connecting to, and communicating with nearby services, such as…
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Working With Background Fetch in iOS 7
Among the millions of applications existing on the App Store, there is a great number of them that deals with data fetched from the web. Even more, today that carriers provide constant Internet access through 3G and 4G networks at low cost, these apps seem to grow even more. News, weather and social applications are…
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Working with Game Center and Game Kit Framework
On App Store, the most popular app category among all is the Games category, something that even Apple accepts as a fact. And how this couldn’t be true, regarding that all or almost all iOS users have downloaded and played one or more games, at least one time? Personally, I’m quite confident that those users…
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Understanding Multipeer Connectivity Framework in iOS 7 – Part 2
Editor’s note: In part 1 of the multipeer connectivity series, we gave an introduction of the Multipeer Connectivity Framework and built chat feature of the demo app. The Multipeer Connectivity Framework is one of the many new frameworks introduced in iOS 7. As you can see in part 1, the framework allows developers to easily…
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Understanding Multipeer Connectivity Framework in iOS 7 – Part 1
The Multipeer Connectivity Framework is one of the many new frameworks iOS 7 introduces, and it broadens the range of the applications that can be built for the new operating system. Its aim is to enable developers to create applications that will allow devices being in close distance to get connected, simply using Wi-Fi networks…
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Introduction to Objective-C Blocks
In programming, what differentiates a good developer from a great developer is the way each one takes advantage of the programming tools he or she offered by the used language. Objective-C, the official language for developing applications for iPhone, iPad and Mac OS, is a multi-featured one, and as a relative to C, very powerful.…