xCode 4 Released
Got woken up to a lovely surprise this morning when xCode 4 Preview has been released for ADC developers.

Go to developer.apple.com and get your hands on this baby. 
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How to work with memory management in Objective-C

Working in Objective-C, unlike on the desktop, memory resources can be quite scarce on your favorite mobile platform. which makes it very important to not only guess but actually understand how to manage your memory within your application and code to ensure that the iOS does not 'kill' your application.

The iPhone cannot rely on garbage collection, something prevalent on desktop Objective-C. and indeed in most other object-oriented languages. You instead use reference counting which means you need to consciously be aware of who owns what object, when it should be alive and when it should die. Sounds kinda cruel huh?

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Adding an iAd advertisement to your iPhone app

With the introduction if iOS 4, Apple have also introduced iAds, a mobile advertising platform that aims to convey a new concept of interactive marketing on your smart-device. Through CSS3 and multi-touching, you will get a WebKit-powered framework to deliver optimal user experience right within your app. This layer in fact sits on top of your application, so it won’t use your app-reserved memory, as well as not leaving the app when the user interacts with the ad, but rather displayed on top of it. 

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Understanding iOS 4 Backgrounding and Delegate Messaging @ Dr. Touch

Now that we all are moving our source code gradually to iOS 4 I had to pause and think a bit about where to move which code. A problem that I’m facing frequently when updating a project is that the didFinishLaunching is only called if the app really launches.

That poses a bit of a challenge if you are used to doing things like refreshing images or other files off the internet. An app that is resumed from standby does no longer go through this delegate method. So an app that would always show fresh content upon launch before 4.0 multitasking would no longer load any new content as soon as you build it for 4.0. That’s actually one of the main reasons why I have not yet had time to update MyAppSales to 4.0.

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