Author Archives: idz

About idz

A professional software engineer dabbling in iOS app development.

Code Snippet: Decompressing a gzipped buffer.

Posted on March 14, 2013 by idz

The other day I was working with a web service that gzipped some of its replies. I needed something simple and robust that would gunzip an NSData without writing a file. When a little googling did not turn up a … Continue reading →

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Tutorial: Playing Audio with AVAudioPlayer

Posted on October 1, 2012 by idz

The past few tutorials dealt with compiling the open source Ogg and Vorbis libraries. In the next few tutorials I will demonstrate how to play Ogg Vorbis files using these libraries. Before attempting to play an unsupported file format like … Continue reading →

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Tutorial: Open Source on iOS (Part 4): Compiling libvorbis

Posted on September 30, 2012 by idz

This is the forth in a series of posts on building open source libraries for iOS. This tutorial uses the scripts and directory structure developed in the first three posts and applies them to compiling the libvorbis open source audio … Continue reading →

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