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Updated Oct 3 2013: This tutorial is compatible with XCode 5 and XCode 4. We’re taking a practical approach to learning iOS programming, so open XCode and follow along. View Article

In this AVAudioPlayer tutorial, we’re going to go through an example of playing a sound file that you’ve added to your Xcode project. View Article

Hello! In this guide, I’m going to show you guys how to make three different types of iPhone apps using web hosting, WordPress and MySQL databases to power them. Many people ask about how to connect their iPhone apps to a MySQL database or how to make an iPhone app for a website. The… View Article

A practical guide to learning iOS programming by building, experimenting, and making mistakes early instead of trying to absorb everything from books or videos first.

How a 13 Year Old Built an App For His School of 1200 Students Pares M. is a 13 year old student from Johannesburg, South Africa. He’s probably one of the youngest developers publishing his first app “Dainfern College (DC) Reads” on the first try. His app is now being used across his school of… View Article

Learn the classic NSURLConnection request flow in Objective-C, including asynchronous callbacks, synchronous requests, POST bodies, timeouts, and cache policies.