Hit The Lights - available on the App Store
Well, it’s been a while and today I am really happy to announce that my first game Hit The Lights is now live on the App Store. And what’s important - y...
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2013
Hit The Lights - soon on App Store
After a year of development I am proud to announce a game that will be available on App Store 21st of March. It is a project that I was doing independently (...
2012
Introducing Hit The Lights
I started working on my new game almost a year ago, the initial commit on my git repository states it was exactly on the 8th of October. I documented some pa...
Symbolicate iOS crash report
The following script will help when you're struggling with symbolicating crash report that you get from your customer https://gist.github.com/3428363 Just cr...
Easier iOS table views with ios-datatable
The project that I recently started to build in my spare time aims to simplify building a data table based views using Cocoa framework. Everyone that has tri...
iOS open-source projects on a Github
I got several requests to share a code to my tutorials so that folks can better understand what I blog about. I don't have any problems with that except the ...
2011
cocos2d meets MVC - wrap up
This post is going to be short. If you have any questions regarding the previous parts or something is unclear please let me know. I have some contract proje...
cocos2d meets MVC – Implementing simple board game part 3
This is the 3rd part from the series how to build a simple puzzle game using cocos2d and MVC pattern. If you haven't read previous parts I suggest you do it ...
cocos2d meets MVC – Implementing simple board game part 2
In the first part of the cocos2d meets MVC series I described how to start implementing MVC paradigm for cocos2d based board game. The first post only scratc...
cocos2d meets MVC - Implementing simple board game part 1
This is a first part of a series of posts that aim to help to understand how we can build a game in cocos2d using MVC pattern (or its variation adapted to co...
The story so far - welcome back iDevBlogADay
This is my first on iDevBlogADay after few months. Last time I only managed to write two blog posts and due to my other business activities and more restrict...
EarPlay Guitarist available on the App Store
EarPlay Guitarist is finally available on the App Store. Lite version got stuck in "in review" state but I bet it will be soon available as well. When the a...
EarPlay Guitarist soon on the AppStore
My first application is waiting for review and I hope it will soon be available on the AppStore. In the meantime you can get a first impression how the app i...
Building lite version in 5 easy steps
My new application will be released in the coming days and I plan to release it in two versions - paid and ad-supported free version. Here is how you can cre...
Welcome back iOS development
My full-time .NET development has taken all of my power recently and I realized I haven't posted anything since March 14th. I didn't post on time on idevblog...
5 top reasons for selecting MonoTouch over ObjectiveC
In my last iDevBlogADay post about iPhone & C# development I was exploring the option of using C# language to build application for iOS. Such approach m...
Trying something new - iPhone & .NET
I was waiting for my first post on iDevBlogADay for quite a long time. I signed on in September so it was about half of a year of waiting for my turn. I must...
Persisting model state in Obj-C
Serialization One of the benefits of having the model separated from your view concerns is that you can easily persist your model state to a permanent stora...
2010
My daily GIT workflow
I haven't been posting anything that is iPhone development related for a long time. I am a bit busy with my full time .NET contract at the moment which means...
How to implement MVC pattern in cocos2d game–part 2
My last post about implementing MVC pattern in cocos2d was definitely lacking some code examples. I must admit – I was writing it on my PC notebook when I wa...
How to implement MVC pattern in cocos2d game
Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a widely adopted pattern for handling user interface interactions in web based applications. Web development stacks such as Ru...
Upgrading cocos2d version
Some time ago I grabbed a latest version of cocos2d from their website and created a project from scratch based on a standard cocos2d template. Today I reali...
3 ways to implement Singleton pattern in Objective-C
Singleton pattern is used when you need to ensure that only one instance of a class can be instantiated and you need a global access to it. The most widely u...
How to preload your game assets in loading scene
If you are building a game for an iPhone then most probably, at some point of time, you will realize that you need a loading screen in which some (or even al...
5 most important rules of memory management in Obj-C
If you haven't been playing with Obj-C on iOS yet and came from a different world, like .NET, Java or any scripting languages there is a really BAD news for ...
Supporting iPhone 4 Retina display
I don't have a new iPhone 4 yet, but I (and probably most of you) do want to support a new Retina display in your apps. In order for your apps to squeeze the...
The beginning of iPhone programming
I started development on iPhone platform few months ago after a few years of experience on MS .NET platform. Why? I was kind of bored of all that stuff relat...
Begin a journey
Ok... it happened. I finally decided to start writing a blog. Let this journey begin... Let me introduce myself. My name is Bartek Wilczynski. I am an experi...