iPhone app rootController (Facebook style) and network detection features
As planned I started my iPhone app again, being lightly inspired by LinkedIn’s new interface I decided to rewrite my app and move away from a tabbed interface. Now my app runs using a navigation controller and icons are used to browse to different view.
So how far have i got? Well I’ve been working on it for three days on and off and I’ve set up a root controller that houses the icon interface, blank views ready for my various app views and a network detection that detect if the phone has any networking issues, if it does a network unavailable view is displayed as opposed to an alert view (might change this).
Some resources that I found useful so far are:
http://adylitica.com/2009/12/15/test-if-your-iphone-app-is-connected-to-internet/
http://www.raddonline.com/blogs/geek-journal/iphone-sdk-testing-network-reachability/
http://fuelyourcoding.com/iphone-view-switching-tutorial/
Next I need to tackle user login, sqlite3 and connection to my website using RESTful services. I’ll post as I go!