Is there a plist file that lists the timezones and maybe a corresponding city? Being able to select a couple of time zones (independent of the users location/iphone settings) is a requirement in an application I am writing.
I am hoping I don't have to reformat some existing list into a plist.
Thanks,
Mike.
There is an API that will pull all that time zone information for you. Check out the Tableview Suite sample code
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/TableViewSuite/index.html
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I am making an iPhone application and i want to use libical to parse .ics dat from an .ics file OR from the URL location of the .ics file..
Firstly i want to know how i would go about using libical in my project? How to add it into my iphone project etc.. ive seen some guides but they seem to be specific to OSX projects and not iphone projects..
Secondly i want to parse event names and their descriptions, so i that i can store the event names/ descriptions as variables..
I was wondering if this was possible using libical.. if so could someone please show me roughly how i may go about implementing this...
Any and all information will be very much appreciated!
Thank You For Reading
I know it might not be a very helpful answer - posting it because i can't comment on the question, so sorry for that - but ics data files are relatively easily parsable. Open one in a text editor and take a look, i've implemented an ics parser before for exactly what you're trying to do, took me a couple of hours, and trying to get all sorts of libraries to compile used taken me more in a few occasions :)
Found an excellent library for parsing .ics files. There are a whole lot of functions too for other tasks like managing calendar and calendar events.
https://github.com/KiranPanesar/MXLCalendarManager
The Xcode templates for the creation of core data apps start a new blank sqlite file when the app is started the first time. But suppose I have a database already created that I need to include in the bundle, so, when the app starts the first time it already starts with a populated database.
How should I proceed. Ok, I know that I cannot write the database in the bundle, so I have to copy it to the document's directory. I see this is where the sqlite database created by the app itself is already on. So, that's it? I just overwrite the original file with the one in the bundle at the end of my RootViewController's viewDidLoad method?
If this is the way to go, then I need to build a control method that does that just the first time, right?
It must be a simpler way...
Any ideas?
thanks
You're on the right track with copying the .sqlite file from the application bundle to the documents directory. I used the approach outlined very thoroughly in this blog post by Jeff LaMarche. It deals specifically with providing staring data to an iPhone application, and it worked like a charm in my app.
I'm using an NSXMLParser to read data out of a XML, but how can I make my iPhone App storing data into this specific XML.
The case is that I want to create an app to display available dates and one that administrates this dates, whether they are available or not (I'm using an UISwitch to handle this).
Thanks for your answers,
btype.
If you have small amount of data, you can save them in a plist.
See Property List Programming Guide
There's a github project that let's you create XML DOM objects. You can save your XML to your documents folder on the phone.
https://github.com/arashpayan/apxml/
First, I would to thank everyone for all the help they provide via this website. It has gotten me to the point of almost being able to release my first iPhone app!
Okay, so the last part I have is this: I have a game that allows users to save their high scores. I update a plist file which contains the users Name, Level, and score.
Now I want to create a screen that will display the top 20 high scores. What would be the best way to do this? At first I thought possibly creating an HTML file with this info but am not even sure if that is possible. I would need to read the plist file, and then write it out as HTML. Is this possible? To write a file out as HTML?
Or an even better question, is there a better way?
Thanks in advance for any and all help!
Geo...
This is what UITableView was made for. Read your plist into an array and feed the contents to the table view through its datasource/delegate methods.
I am developing an app which parses an Xml or RSS feeds of a magazine..The thing is I have to include an offline capability,ie save the previous results which were displayed in each cell(similar to the New York times app) and then display the saved ones when there is no network connection..
Please help me with the codewise explanation using Core data as I was suggested to use it for this particular task.
Will be of great help for me..
Looking forward for your replies
Regards and Thanks
Arun
You probably want to start here.
OH Boy... CoreData.
Good bye 3-4 days of learning how this works. You wont regret learning about core data but there is a LOT.
#OhioDude has a great link. You can also.
1. Xcode > file > New Project. Select Navigation Based App, make sure the coredata checkbox is checked. Viola you have a project with all the core data templates.
2. There is other sample code on Apples website.
One of the tricky and cool things about core data is that you if you deploy a new version you have to write a template of how you app is to roll the data into the new structure.
During dev as I am changing the DB structure, I seem to get errors, so I just do a build>clean. And rename the string for the DB file to something new.
Good luck. Otherwise NSUserDefaults will be fine.
Or just learn about PLIST's you can simply serialize a NSDictionarly object into a PLIST and save it to the disk in a few lines of code. SUPER easy and no stuffing around with CoreData.