Because you can never be sure how long it will take to retrieve content from a web page and have it displayed on the iPod/iPhone, it’s quite nice to provide the user with an indication that the content is being retrieved.
The following article provides a nice and easy way to start and stop and animation indicator when the content is being retrieved and has been loaded. (more…)
I struggled with this one for quite a while. I kept searching and searching, all I could find was forums and no one seemed to have an answer!
Well, if you’re here, don’t worry, I have the answer you have been looking. Let me show you how to make a UIWebView scrollable for your iPhone application. (more…)
The other day I was working on my iPhone application. In the application I have a view. This view creates a UIWebView. I then proceed to load content from a webpage into the web view.
This works great. I was then tasked with adding a bit of style to the view similar to how you perform a transparent background with CSS.
I started by creating all of the style in the webpage, but I quickly realized that this was causing the load to be a lot slower. Instead I had to integrate the design into the view and simply display the content from the webpage in the design.
This was going pretty well until the webpage sat like a big white blob on top of my nice image. I couldn’t let this be and had to find a solution, luckily it wasn’t to complicated. (more…)