A Passionate Technologists' Journal

If you have been using iOS7 for the past weeks, then you would have noticed the new Multitasking View (HP first introduced this type of multitasking for its Mobile WebOS) that gives a snap of the application. So, if you swipe up an application, the app gets deleted from the background queue. But, what if you want to delete more than one app at a time? Here comes the trick : You can place two fingers on the screen, one on the left app and the other on the right and when you swipe up,  both the apps gets deleted simultaneously, this at least gives you half the time needed to delete the apps.  Also, if your fingers are broader then you can even delete 3apps simultaneously, luckily i could do this easily on my iPhone but find a bit difficult doing it on my iPad.  But, still there is no real way to delete more than 2-3 apps at a time.  Still, Apple didn't provide us with an option to delete multiple apps(as iOS JailBreak Community alone takes advanta...

Read this  article today : Here is the complete information about what you need to know on Apple's ARM64 64-bit processor in iPhone5S as an iOS Developer.  Here's my favourite stuff from the article : "   Adding it all together, it's a pretty big win. My casual benchmarking indicates that basic object creation and destruction takes about 380ns on a 5S running in 32-bit mode, while it's only about 200ns when running in 64-bit mode. If any instance of the class has ever had a weak reference and an associated object set, the 32-bit time rises to about 480ns, while the 64-bit time remains around 200ns for any instances that were not themselves the target.  " Here's the conclusion from the article : "   The "64-bit" A7 is not just a marketing gimmic, but neither is it an amazing breakthrough that enables a new class of applications. The truth, as happens often, lies in between. The simple fact of moving to 64-bit does little. I...

Introduction to iOS Here's the presentation for the following people :       * For those who own an iPhone/iPad/iPod-Touch and want to have a knowledge about the iOS Eco-System.      * For those who don't have even have a little exposure to iOS.      * For those who want to land onto the iOS Ecosystem and start off.

iOS7 Changes : # Features : * Flat Translucent UI * Airdrop * Control Centre * Notification view changes * Siri Enhancement  * Automatic Updates * Real Multitasking(Copied from HP's WebOS) * Photos app collection view * Inter-App Audio # New frameworks : * Game Controller * Sprite Kit * Multi-peer Connectivity(iBeacons) * Javascript Core * Safari Services # Foundation Framework Changes: * [NSArray firstObject] * NSData - base64 Encoding * NSProgress Class (New class to handles event progress) # Enhanced Frameworks /API's : * UIKitDynamics * Multitasking * Games * Maps * AVFoundation(Videos Zooming added) # Objective C Features :  * Modules. * New return type – "instancetype" (As oppose to "id" datatype).  These are all the changes that i have seen so far.  Will update here i...

My Very First iOS UnArchiving Library " SARUnArchiveANY " has been posted in GitHub and published on " maniacdev.com " Hoping that it might be useful to many iOS buddies. Here's the story behind this library : I was working on a project, in which i needed to handle a different set of files that comes from several sources for Offline Access. So, files from each source were of different kind/type/format. For example, one was in .zip, another one with .rar and other in .7z and some .tar, .tar.gz formats too, but however we managed to get all the files from all the sources in 3 formats at the most - zip, rar, 7z, which are all the top most popular formats for file archiving. Coming to iOS part : I was the only one guy handling the complete iOS App/Project. I found that there is no framework or library to UnArchive files in iOS. But, there were few great libraries for each format separately and integrating all those took many of my days. I fo...