the.jaytrixz.view.controller

This is how you create or extract your UUID for your iOS 6 device. Check out this link:

http://icodetoplay.com/tips/ios-6-sdk-create-universally-unique-identifier/

This is a great example of how to utilize AFNetworking in fetching data from the web and placing it to your UITableView. Here’s the link:

http://nscookbook.com/2013/03/ios-programming-recipe-16-populating-a-uitableview-with-data-from-the-web/

This is a great explanation and sample on the use of performSelectorInBackground and GCD:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7290931/gcd-threads-program-flow-and-ui-updating

I prefer using GCD because the code is cleaner and is the new technology used.

This is how I managed to prevent Xcode from doing Snapshots when doing mass-editing:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6163785/xcode-4-disable-snapshots-creation-on-refactoring

This is the code I used when I want to do a search of a single developer or company in the AppStore without having to go through Mobile Safari:

NSString *searchString = @”john%20joseph%20santos”;

    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@”http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?media=software&term=%@”, searchString]]];

This is a cool site that includes links to iTunes for your applications, even music and movies. Here’s the link:

http://bjango.com/articles/ituneslinks/

This is the path on where to locate your iPhone Simulator files on your Mac.

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/iPhone\ Simulator.app

This is how I managed to create a transparent UIImage in one of the projects I’m working on. The answer by dasblinkenlight is the code that worked. Here’s the link:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12235570/how-to-create-a-blank-transparent-png-in-objective-c

In one of the projects I’ve been working on, I used this code to display my custom notification prompt in the current view. The application setup is like this, one UITabBarController that houses three UINavigationControllers.

The code is this:

if (self.tabBarController.selectedIndex == 0)

                    {

                        [self displayNotificationWhenOnline:self.navController1.visibleViewController.view];

                    }

                    else if (self.tabBarController.selectedIndex == 1)

                    {

                        [self displayNotificationWhenOnline:self.navController2.visibleViewController.view];

                    }

This is how I changed my back button to a custom one and removed the text.

This is what I placed in my root view controller in my UINavigationController under viewDidLoad

// Setting back button title to none

    self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@” “

                                                                              style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered

                                                                             target:nil

                                                                             action:nil] autorelease];

    // Custom back button

    UIImage *backImageNormal = [[UIImage imageNamed:@”back.png”]

                     resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, 0, 0)];

    UIImage *backImageHighlighted = [[UIImage imageNamed:@”back_onpress.png”]

                     resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, 0, 0)];

    [[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setBackButtonBackgroundImage:backImageNormal

                                                      forState:UIControlStateNormal

                                                    barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];

    [[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setBackButtonBackgroundImage:backImageHighlighted

                                                      forState:UIControlStateHighlighted

                                                    barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];

    // END - Custom back button

And this is the only code I place on the other root view controllers inside that navigation controller.

// Setting back button title to none

    self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@” “

                                                                              style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered

                                                                             target:nil

                                                                             action:nil] autorelease];