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It’s been a year since I released the first and only swedish multi-bank app for iPhone. It’s been pretty successful with some ~45.000 downloads and it’s being downloaded at a rate of 80-100 times per day. When I built the first version I used (and still use today) scraping techniques to authenticate and fetch information [...]

YahooFinance is a framework for accessing Yahoo! Finance information in your iOS application. The framework is a cornerstone in my latest project that hopefully will be released on App Store. Here’s a demonstration of what you can do with this framework: Features Stock symbol search. Free-text search for stocks and find symbols for global stock [...]

Having problems getting your video to play on your iOS device even tough it plays back perfectly in your browser? First of all, make sure your video is in a supported format (H.264+AAC+MP4). Videos can easily be encoded using an application such as Handbreak. Make sure your HTML code is correct. Here’s a great resource [...]

It’s always interesting to see how well (or poorly) your app is performing in App Store and iTunes Connect has since the latest update provided much nicer interface to track this with graphs. The iTC Mobile app also provide the same graphs/information on the go. However, iTunes Connect falls short because daily statistics are only [...]

I’ve been lazy recently, I know…. But I’e finally gotten around to fix some bugs and added some minor things to “Mitt Saldo” making it ready for version 1.1. A bug was reported that Handelsbanken didn’t work properly on the iPad which was weird because the iPhone works well and it’s the same code. It [...]

Do you like the way application images are displayed in AppStore or the way Safari flips between tabs? This post contains a complete  horizontal, paged UIScrollView with preview control. Alexander Repty posted a sample on his blog and my sample is based on his work. I’ve encapsulated the solution into one, easy to use, control [...]

Ever been in a situation where you need to wait for an asynchronous task to complete. This is a rare case but sometimes you need to do this. I used this techinque in my previous post on how to extract the user-agent string from a UIWebView. Check it out for a more complete sample. The [...]

In each new version of iOS the browser gets a new user-agent string. I’ve been searching for a way to get the user-agent string from the API but haven’t been able to find a straight forward way to do it. Here’s my solution: