iOS : Creating a slide show video from the images

Lets say i have a list of images and I would like to create a slideshow video , so that i can easily share this video with anyone I wish to. iOS API gives a very easy way of creating the videos from the photo with the help of following libraries AVFoundation , CoreVideo , [...]

E-sign solutions in iOS

Enterprise applications may have a requirement of e-signing a document before sending it to some third party receiver, for instance if a user is disbursing some bills he may have to sign it. Similarly a surveyor may have to sign a survey to prove his authenticity. On the other hand one should keep in mind [...]

Scrollable Photo Gallery with add, remove image abilities for iOS

Mobile apps are effectively distinguished by the way they present content to the user. Content that can act as a catalyst in inference of the information that is being supplied to the user. Understandingly photos are one of the most powerful tool to serve this purpose. But almost always we encounter the roadblock of creating [...]

XML Parsers for iOS: libXML vs KissXML

XML Parsing on iPhone/iPad – Is that something your current sprint revolves around? Well if it does, this blog might help you. While parsing XMLs on device, we need to look into factors like performance and memory consumption. While googling, i found couple of XML parsing APIs including Apple’s native NSXMLParser. NSXMLParser looked like this is [...]

Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) vs NSThread

In this post I will talk about Grand central dispatch, how it is better than using NSThread. But before that I would like to see how and where threads are used. There are n number of distinct reasons behind using threads based on the structure and complexity of the app, but the prime reason behind [...]