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Poptweets for iPhone Updated to Version 1.0.2

Derek van Vliet — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:05:10 +0000

An update to Poptweets is now available on the app store. Here is what’s new:

When you run out of tweets to play, more are downloaded from the web – endless fun!
Minor bug fixes

Thanks to everyone for making Poptweets a Top 25 Trivia game on the app store!

How to Show the Network Activity Indicator

Derek van Vliet — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:17:32 +0000

The network activity indicator is like the UIActivityIndicatorView we previously discussed, only it sits on the status bar, it is smaller, and believe it or not, it is even easier to manipulate. It’s the little rotating wheel of bars (pictured right) that shows up on the status bar whenever your iPhone is accessing the network.

Show It

If you would like to let your users know that your iPhone app is currently swapping data with the network, you can do so with this simple line of code:

[UIApplication sharedApplication].networkActivityIndicatorVisible = YES;

Hide It

You guessed it: once you’re done showing it, to hide it again, just set the same UIApplication property to NO like so.

[UIApplication sharedApplication].networkActivityIndicatorVisible = NO;

Apple Banking Voodoo

Matt Coombe — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:39:58 +0000

I thought I might share a small hiccup I ran into while submitting our banking information to Apple through iTunesConnect.

Most of the process went very smoothly until I was asked for my bank’s “Transit Number”. Our company is located in Toronto and so in Canada this is a 5 digit number that is unique for each branch of a given bank. I duly typed this in but it was immediately rejected when the form was sent to Apple. I got an “enter valid transit number” warning.

After several phone calls to my branch and bank helpline I was no closer to resolving the problem. They told me what I already knew, that the transit number is a 5 digit code. I sent an email to iTSBanking@apple.com but did not expect a reply any time soon (although I did get some help from them over email a day later). After banging my head against the wall and some Google searching I found the real deal on what Apple is expecting Canadian iPhone developers to input for the Transit Number.

Apple is actually looking for the electronic Routing Transit Number which consists of three values with no spaces or dashes:

0XXXYYYYY

A leading zero followed by the 3 digits of your bank institution number followed by the 5 digit branch transit number (also known as the branch ID).

You can find your bank institution number here.

Hopefully this will save some of you the frustration I ran into!