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I sometimes find myself creating applications that have a Home viewcontroller and all other views should allow the user to directly return to this Home viewcontroller. I don't just want to push a fresh copy of the Home viewcontroller on the navigation stack. Instead, I need to loop through the n

A common want in any application that communicates with a web service is to add a loading/loader view to show your user that the application is busy getting data and has not crashed. I've came up with a generic loading view that I use on multiple applications, its split into two methods, one to

Adding search functionality to your UITableView can be achieved using the built in UISearchBar object and implementing the UISearchBarDelegate protocol. I am going to take us through an example that searches an Article instances (data object) properties for the users entered search string, displayin

Recently on an application I came across an issue where when I showed a UIPickerView inside an action sheet the bottom half(ish) of the pickerview wasn't selectable. I had came across this before when showing buttons in an UIActionSheet and had overcome it by moving the button slightly higher

I wrote this custom cell that ultimately was axed because it didn't fit into the UI that was later revised. I thought it was a shame to waste it so here it is in the full. It works by allowing you to define how buttons should appear in a cell, each is given an equal size and spacing is worked o

On a project I had to come up with a way of dynamically adjusting a label's frame to match the content that was inside it. I first thought of using a UITextView instead of a label as my data could very well be multi-lined but decided against it when I discovered this approach: .h @interface U