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Face detection is something I’ve been interested in for a while now. Previously to get it working on the iPhone we had to use Open CV but with iOS5 Apple have included native face detection as a part of the Core Image framework. It’s very simple to get FD up and running without any fuss, … Continue reading Easy Face Detection with iOS5
The next thing I’m going to go through is how to push a new view onto the stack when the user taps the annotation’s call out button. This is relatively straight forward with one annotation, but is a little bit more complicated when it comes to multiple annotations that have all been created dynamically. In … Continue reading Creating a Map Based Application on the iPhone Part 2
Quick tip: Everyone knows that when you create a UITextView in Interface Builder you can easily switch it to automatically detect URLs, but recently I was looking for the code to do this dynamically and all I code find was a 15 line REG EX. So here’s how to set text fields to dynamically detect … Continue reading UITextViews can automatically detect URLs and phone numbers
Everybody seems to want a map based mobile application these days. It’s like the late 90s all over again but with mobile devices instead of Netscape. So to lighten my work load a bit I’m going to show you how to go about making your own, and a few tricks I’ve learnt along the way. … Continue reading Creating a Map Based Application on the iPhone Part 1
So I’ve been meaning to do this post for a while. I’m just going to publish a whole lot of code snippets that I’ve found really useful and most of which I use on a daily basis. I hope you find them useful: ACCESS THE APP DELEGATE FROM ANYWHERE this one’s especially useful for throwing … Continue reading The iOS dev cheat sheet