I'm looking for a way of implementing an alert banner like Facebook does when their iPhone app loses connection. If you have the Facebook app for iPhone, switch to airplane mode whilst in the app to see what I mean.
Failing this, I'm looking for a nice tidy way of letting the user know that connection has been lost, whilst still allowing them to navigate the app.
TSMessages library is for you:)
My problem now is: How do i get the same effect when facebook(Desktop) give me a notification and add to the total number of notification that have no being read? Example someone tag me on the facebook and there is "1" pop up above the notification icon.
1) I search for push notification but if is not wrong is for mobile devices.
2) Event Manager. Search around but still no luck linking Event Manager and what i want. (I totally think is using event manager but have no idea to start.
Thanks for the help in advance.
Cheers
I need to build an app such as "Messages" in iPhone, but easier (don't need to send messages to server, only in datebase). I was faced with some questions.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-ioschat/index.html
In this tutorial messages look like TableView, how can I do them such as in iPhone standard messanger (comics speach). And how can I implement bar with camera button, text box and send button (what class is responsible for this)?
You are in luck good sir, there is already a class that can fix you up with this and avoid all the work, it's called AcaniChat (screenshot provided). Or you can even see at Sam Soffle's SSMessagesViewController, he is a well known iOS developer who built this class.
It will definitely help you, if you want to mimic that behavior.
Is there any way in which the usage of the camera of the iPad2 can be restricted only to my application? even if it is using i tunes.
could not find any code related to it. some code would be helpful.
There's no way to achieve this. I think it could be done with quite a bunch of hacking if you were developing for Cydia, but I'm not sure ever then. If the user quits your application or switches from it, the system will make the camera available to any other app requesting it.
I want to develop a screensaver-like app where the only way of getting back to the springboard is entering a code. Therefore I would need the Home Button action to be ignored, that is that when the user presses the button nothing happens..or something custom...instead of going back to the springboard and terminating the app.
Is this possible? does anybody know if apple will approve/reject this kind of app?
The answer to your question is, yes.
The answer to the question you meant to ask--can I ship an app through the iPhone store that has the home button disabled--is no.
If you are only publishing your app to jailbroken phones you can do it, but it will piss everyone off.
Edit 7 years later:
This is actually extremely possible now--there is a standard feature in the iPhone called "Guided Access". It's hidden under that "Accessibility" Link (With some other fairly cool stuff like flashing the LED whenever you get a call and allowing a Bluetooth keyboard to tab between controls)
It's called "Guided Access". You set a passcode, launch the app then triple-click the home button to start guided access.
It disables exit and allows you to designate regions of the screen you can't touch. You can also set a time limit (For kids playing which seems to be the reason a lot of people look up this question).
Tempted to edit the "Accepted answer" and throw this info in there, but that seems rude so I'll just hope people find this answer.
Annoyingly you also seem to be unable to shut off the phone--I suppose this is perfect for people who want their kids to play a game, but might not hit the original asker's problem of restricting access to a single app (I mean it WILL do that but it'll also prevent it from doing ANYTHING else).
Not with public APIS (and hopefully, not with private ones). Even if you manage it somehow, Apple will reject it for breaking UI guidelines. Moreover, even if they didn't, people could always use the iPhone's "Force Quit" equivalent to hard terminate your app.
Apple is not going to approve this type of app, they state pretty explicitly that you're app needs to respond appropriately to springboard telling the app to terminate both when things like phone calls come in and when memory warnings come in.
This is not possible with the current SDK, nor do I suspect it will ever be.
You might be able to get this behaviour via jailbreaking, but you won't be able to sell your app through iTunes, nor will Apple ever approve such an application.
You can do it like this
Install the following mobileconfig file
This will disable the home button once you launch the app
Download
Found the link Here
Apple won't allow it.
What if something emergency happens and you wan to dial an emergency phone number. You are putting the user at risk. The trade-off isn't worth it.