Category Archives: iOS

Beacon Harvester ver. 1.10 available on the App Store

A couple of days ago another version of my first iOS application has become available for download. This version brings a couple of improvements as well as includes a huge number of things I had to learn while writing it 😉 Except the mobile application itself I have created a simple rest service on the […]

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iOS HTTP Basic Authentication and RestKit

Today morning I was looking for some solution to use authentication with my REST calls to GeoCouch database. I set up the security on the server side but couldn’t get it to work really on the iOS. No joy on stackoverflow.com either :). Was lucky enough to google up a very small solution project created […]

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Parsing JSON with Objective-C and RestKit

Another problem I have found while developing my pet-project application called ‘BeaconHarvester‘ was to integrate it with the external web service somewhere to allow people exchange information about iBeacons found, this functionality is on its way but for now I would like to share a few bits on how to parse quite complex JSON data […]

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How to get geographic coordinates of the visible MKMapView area in iOS

Recently I become interested in a problem of managing a large number of annotations on a MKMapView in iOS application. The problem is twofold, first is about displaying a large number of annotations on the map view, second is managing the large number of annotations before displaying them. The commonly known solutions to the first […]

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