Questions tagged [iphone]
The iPhone is a touch screen mobile device by Apple Computer Inc. running the mobile iOS operating system.
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How do large companies deal with the 100 device limit in the Apple Developer Program [closed]
As far as I know both the regular and enterprise developer programs both have a 100 iPhone limit for development. I don't mean distributing the app for testing where the limit is higher, but for ...
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Making apps communicate with each other (?)
A friend of me and I would like to easily know if stuff like chores were done, and we're both in two different locations.
So, would it be very hard (would I need a lot of experience?) and take a lot ...
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If I develop a media player for mobile or desktop do I have to pay for a license if my player is able to read MP3 files?
I know MP3 is not open source format but proprietary and I found this website http://mp3licensing.com/help/developers.html that states that you need a license for basically everything that uses MP3.
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Why do successive iOS versions take longer to run the same task on the same hardware?
Updating the iOS version on an old iPhone tends to make basic operations like startup, placing calls, and checking settings take longer. The change from eg iOS 7 to 8 on an iPhone 4S has a very ...
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How to deprecate an entire mobile application? [closed]
Six months ago I launched a free app that I developed and self-funded. From peak usage of a few thousand users, it has now bottomed out at a few hundred. It was an interesting project, from which I ...
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Launching iPhone App - Do I need separate names for the App and the Landing Page/website or can I use the same name? [closed]
I am launching a iPhone App. Do I need two separate domain names for the app and the landing page website or can I use the same name for both. The website will solely be used to advertise the app ...
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iOS Core data & NSUserDefaults
I am creating an App where users can search items from an external API. If the users likes an item they can store them into their personal "favourites item list".
My question is, is it a good ...
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iOS bluetooth development: mimicking the SPP profile
I need to interface a custom device with bluetooth 2.1 (it has the RN-42 chip), with an iPhone and iPad. The device uses the Bluetooth SPP profile. From my research it appears that iOS supports ...
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Security in an iOS game?
I'm part of a team building an iOS game which has multiplayer elements.
A concern right now is how to make the game more secure, from user manipulation. I know there's a lot of multiplayer games out ...
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What is a good design pattern to implement REST services on mobile?
It is easy to implement calls to API endpoints, then to parse JSON and handle the data - but what is a good design pattern for this?
Here are some ways I have tried but I feel like there should be a ...
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Lazy-initialization vs preprocessing in image-based iOS app
I am making an iOS app which contains museum gallery: user can look through exhibits and then select info about it, etc.
On the exhibit screen I have two ScrollViews that are different, but are being ...
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Android SDK and Iphone SDK limitations
I have an idea that would require triggering a call or text message simply by pressing or dialing a certain number.
Example: Pressing 2324 on the pin code. Despite it not being your pin code to ...
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Is there a download limit to ios apps?
With reference to iOS 7.
I couldn't find any Apple documents with regards to this.
Are we able to download any size of documents and manage them ourselves (within our app say < 100MB)?
Example, we ...
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What is a cross-platform way to expose an Array[][] over a webservice? Any JSON nuances to be aware of?
I need to expose an Array[][] to many different clients (iPhone, Android, PC, Unix, etc), and need to make it available over HTTP/s
This brings me to JSON, and makes me wonder how do all the other *...
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iOS7 apps only using iPad only
I would like to develop iOS apps but due to budgetary issues I can only afford an iPad mini gen1 or iPod touch 5th gen. Is it possible for me to make apps for all iPhones and iPads/iPods using just a ...
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