Kevin McNeish Blog

Unleash Your Inner App Developer (Part 11) - Integrating the Photo Library

2013-06-13T22:26:00Z

This week's post covers integrating with the iOS Photo Library. Includes step-by-step videos. http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/31369/unleash-your-inner-app-developer—-photo-library All the best! Kevin McNeish Author: iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book series Twitter: @kjmcneish...(read more)

iOS 7 - A Developer's First Impressions

2013-06-12T15:37:00Z

Would you like to get your hands on the IOS 7 beta sooner than later? I've installed iOS 7 on my iPhone and used it for a few days. I've blogged about my impressions on my iPhone Life magazine blog: http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/31369/ios-7-developers-first-impression All the best! Kevin McNeish Author: iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book series Twitter: @kjmcneish...(read more)

Unleash Your Inner App Developer (Part 10) - Social Media and Collections

2013-06-06T17:28:00Z

In this new post for iPhone Life magazine, I demonstrate how to integrate social media into your app and discuss variables, properties, arrays, action methods and outlets. http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/31369/unleash-your-inner-app-developer-integrating-social-media P.S. If you're wondering if you missed part 9, you didn't! I just changed my number to correspond with iPhone Life's number of my blog posts! All the best! Kevin McNeish Author: iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book...(read more)

Unleash Your Inner App Developer (Part 8) - Sending Messages

2013-05-30T23:14:00Z

In this 8th post in my "Unleash Your Inner App Developer" blog series for iPhoneLife magazine, you learn how to pass messages to classes and objects in Objective-C! http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/31369/unleash-your-inner-app-developer-sending-messages All the best! Kevin McNeish Author: iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book series Twitter: @kjmcneish...(read more)

Unleash Your Inner App Developer (Part 7) - Code Writing First Steps

2013-05-23T19:32:00Z

This week's post is now live on the iPhoneLife web site: http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/31369/unleash-your-inner-app-developer-object-oriented-programming This week's post includes a step-by-step video as we cover: Object-orientation in Objective-C Inheritance Passing messages Converting the prototype into a real app All the best! Kevin McNeish Author: iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book series Twitter: @kjmcneish...(read more)

Unleash Your Inner App Developer (Part 6) - The Big Picture

2013-05-16T17:52:00Z

This week's post is now live on the iPhoneLife site: http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/31369/unleash-your-inner-app-developer In this week's post we dive into programming and discuss: - The three parts of an app - What is iOS - Source Code, Compilers and Machine Code - Understanding Classes and Objects - Attributes, Properties & Methods - Visual and Non-Visual Objects All the best! Kevin McNeish Author: iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book series Twitter: @kjmcneish...(read more)

Unleash Your Inner App Developer (Part 5 - Finishing the Prototype) is now live on the iPhoneLife Site

2013-05-09T17:18:00Z

In this 5th post (includes step-by-step video) in my "Unleash Your Inner App Developer" blog series for iPhoneLife magazine, we finish building the prototype app! http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/31369/unleash-your-inner-app-developer-finishing-prototype All the best! Kevin McNeish Author: iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book series Twitter: @kjmcneish...(read more)

Unleash Your Inner App Developer (Part 4) is live on the iPhoneLife site!

2013-05-02T21:20:00Z

The fourth installment of my "Unleash Your Inner App Developer" blog series for iPhone Life magazine is now live, and includes a step-by-step video ! http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/31369/unleash-your-inner-app-developer-next-steps All the best! Kevin McNeish Author: iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book series Twitter: @kjmcneish...(read more)

Book 2: Flying with Objective-C now available in paperback!

2013-04-30T16:31:00Z

Book 2: Flying with Objective-C is now available in paperback! This is one of the most comprehensive books on Objective-C that you will find! http://www.amazon.com/Book-Flying-Objective-C-Development-Non-Programmers/dp/0988232715/ref=tmm_pap_title_0 The book includes links to instructional videos on our web site. All the best! Kevin McNeish Author: iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book series Twitter: @kjmcneish...(read more)

Unleash Your Inner App Developer - Adding Navigation (Part 3)

2013-04-25T17:10:00Z

The next part in my blog series "Unleash Your Inner App Developer - Adding Navigation" is now live! http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/31369/unleash-your-inner-app-developer-adding-navigation All the best! Kevin McNeish Author: iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book series Twitter: @kjmcneish...(read more)

Q&A: How do I fix the "Could not insert new outlet connection" error?

2013-04-25T14:03:00Z

Whenever you see the dreaded "Could not insert new outlet connection. Could not find any information for the class named xx", it's almost always an Xcode problem. Even though the class named in the error message is in your project, Xcode loses track of it, and acts as if it's not there. Assuming you have already tried restarting Xcode to fix the problem (you should try this first), here are a few solutions to this problem: Remove the Class Files and Add Them Back in Again In the...(read more)

Unleash Your Inner App Developer - Diving Deeper

2013-04-18T17:04:00Z

My latest blog post for iPhone Life magazine includes step-by-step instructions and video for learning to build iOS Apps! http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/31369/unleash-your-inner-app-developer-diving-deeper All the best! Kevin McNeish Author: iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book series Twitter: @kjmcneish...(read more)

Unleash Your Inner App Developer Part 3 - Step-by-step instructions for building your first iOS App!

2013-04-11T19:22:00Z

The third installment of my blog series targets at non-programmers is now live on the iPhone Life web site! In this week's post we begin the process of creating an iOS app that accesses and stores data on the web, and integrates with the iOS camera, Facebook, Twitter, and much more. http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/31369/unleash-your-inner-app-developer-getting-taste-app-development All the best! Kevin McNeish Author: iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book series Twitter: @kjmcneish...(read more)

Kick The Tires - Rent a Mac in the Cloud - Tools for Unleashing Your Inner App Developer

2013-04-06T06:54:00Z

My second blog post in this series is now available on the iPhone Life web site! http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/31369/how-unleash-your-inner-app-developer-getting-ready All the best! Kevin McNeish Author: iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book series Twitter: @kjmcneish...(read more)

"How to Unleash Your Inner App Developer" - My New Weekly Blog for iPhoneLife magazine!

2013-03-28T17:25:00Z

I've got a new weekly blog I'm writing for iPhoneLife magazine called "How to Unleash Your Inner App Developer". This is in addition to my regular column which will be appearing in the next issue of IPhone Life magazine http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/31369/unleashing-app-developer-within All the best! Kevin McNeish Author: iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book series Twitter: @kjmcneish...(read more)

Confessions of a Pizza Stalker

2013-03-24T04:31:00Z

Well, this doesn't have anything to do with iOS, Android, or .NET, but, my wife Sharlene has a great new blog that's targeted at any of you pizza fanatics out there (and if you write code for a living, I KNOW you're out there)! Here it is: http://www.pizzastalker.blogspot.com We both attended the Pizza Expo 2013 in Las Vegas last week and it was a blast! All the best! Kevin McNeish Author: iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book series Twitter: @kjmcneish...(read more)

Q&A: How To Fix Xcode's "used as the name of the previous parameter" warning

2013-03-15T16:14:00Z

When you upgrade to Xcode 4.6, you may find that you are getting a number of compiler warnings like this: 'xxxxx' used as the name of the previous parameter rather than as part of the selector In this post I will show you why you're getting this warning, how to fix it, or how to ignore it. Why You're Getting This Warning This is typically caused by declaring a method without specifying a description of the parameter. For example, check out the following method declaration: - (NSString...(read more)

iPhoneLife Column and Blog

2013-03-15T15:09:00Z

Hello All! Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm now a regular columnist and featured blogger for iPhoneLife magazine! I'll still be blogging here, but you can find more of my iOS content in the magazine and in my new blog: http://www.iPhoneLife.com/blogs/kevin-mcneish My first blog post is about Apple's expansion of the iBookStore into Japan and some new enhancements to iBooks and iTunes Producer. All the best! Kevin McNeish Author: iOS App Development for Non-Programmers book series...(read more)

Book 3: Navigating Xcode 4.6 now available on Amazon!

2013-02-27T15:44:00Z

Great news! Book 3: Navigating Xcode 4.6 in our iOS App Development for Non-Programmers is now available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Navigating-Development-Non-Programmers-ebook/dp/B00BLS8LRO/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1361977444&sr=8-11&keywords=xcode+4.6 This third book in the series helps you deliver high-quality Apps more quickly as it teaches you to take full advantage of all the great features in Xcode 4.6. Book 3 also includes information on: Taking full advantage of the...(read more)

Maui, HI - iOS Apps for Non-Programmers Training Class, July 8-12, 2013

2013-02-20T22:48:00Z

We have an additional location and dates for our iOS Apps for Non-Programmers Training Class (again, in addition to our April 1-5, 2013 Manhattan Beach, CA class). Maui Training Class Details Our class will be held at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center , Maui, HI (2 miles from Maui's main airport). It's a five-day hands-on workshop that runs from July 8-12, 2013 , 9am-5pm each day. This five day workshop, is specifically designed for non-programmers. It teaches you the skills you need to...(read more)