Author Archives: idz

About idz

A professional software engineer dabbling in iOS app development.

Tutorial: How to Rename a Class using Refactor in Xcode 4 and Xcode 5

Posted on May 14, 2011 by idz

Update: Although this post was originally written about Xcode 4 the procedure is the same in Xcode 5 I’ve always found it annoying that the Apple templates for Navigation-based Projects called the root view controller class RootViewController. If you create … Continue reading →

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Tutorial: Using UITableView

Posted on May 9, 2011 by idz

This is a brief tutorial on how to use UITableView. Instead of populating the table with a list of hard-coded strings, I would like to show you how to do something (slightly) more useful: list all the fonts available on … Continue reading →

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Introduction to Properties in Objective-C

Posted on May 5, 2011 by idz

Properties in Objective-C allow you to provide a well-defined interface for other classes to manipulate (i.e. get or set) attributes of a class. They also insulate external classes from the implementation details of the attributes (this separation of function and … Continue reading →

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