Category Archives: iOS

Compile Protobuf for iOS

For a project I’m doing at work, that I hope will eventually be open source, I needed to have protobuf compiled for iOS. A colleague of mine showed me how it had been compiled on iOS 4, using these scripts, … Continue reading

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My build setup

Tomorrow I begin work at Trifork! There I’ll be doing iOS development, so before I begin I thought I’d like to share a bit about how I do my development now. First of all, I use GitHub and Beanstalk for … Continue reading

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5DmkII vs 4S

Yes, the 4S is a great video camera. The 5D still has the edge, but also the bulk. This device is going to be great. iPhone 4S / Canon 5d MKII Side by Side Comparison from Robino Films on Vimeo.

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JENKINS-11370 & JENKINS-11372

I’m working with Xcode & Jenkins, and as part of that I’ve filed https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-11370 for pre-scm-buildstep The clang-scanbuild-plugin fails on install, so for that I’ve added https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-11372  

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Mercurial tagging for XCode

I’ve used many version control systems, but this week has been the first time I’ve used Mercurial for anything more than a bit of testing. It looks good to me, so I read a bit around to see how people … Continue reading

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Updating an Address Book record

When updating an Address Book record in Cocoa, I read that I had modify the record using ABRecordSetValue(). But it wouldn’t change. Even if I called ABAddressBookSave() afterwards, it just wouldn’t change. It turns out I had to call ABAddressBookAddRecord() … Continue reading

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Android isn’t open source, what now?

So Google’s admitted that Android is not open source. Some parts are, some parts are not. That’s the same with iOS. Many parts of iOS are from open source projects (I’ll mention cups, the printer stack on many Linux systems, … Continue reading

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Extending iMessage

I hate instant messaging. Not because I don’t like talking to people, but because there are so many networks I have to be part of, and once I’m signed up I have to use this program or that program, which … Continue reading

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Tapptics

I thought I’d give Tapptics a little plug. I love writing nice applications for the iPhone, but taking on a graphics artist for pet projects is sometimes a bit hard to justify. But a while ago I read about Tapptics … Continue reading

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The state of iOS Open Source

I just quickly want to plug The state of iOS Open Source – and what to do about it! by Fredrik Olsson. It’s a great little piece of advice for all us iOS developers

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Converting OCUnit output to something Jenkins can understand

I’m working on setting up my continuous integration system to work with Xcode. I’m using Jenkins on a separate Mac Mini, and I found this great article by Christian Hedin where he introduces his ocunit2junit.rb utility that converts the output … Continue reading

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Finally iPad 2

When the iPad was announced, we got to hear we had to wait until the international launch date. So before it was even morning on the date of the international launch I ordered mine online, black 64Gb with 3G. I … Continue reading

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Solution for “com.apple.transporter.util.StreamUtil.readBytes(Ljava/io/InputStream;)[B”

March 27th I had this problem that whenever I submitted an app to the app store with the App Loader or Xcode, that would pass verification mind you, I got an error: “com.apple.transporter.util.StreamUtil.readBytes(Ljava/io/InputStream;)[B” I wrote Apple to tell them about … Continue reading

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