iPhone/iPad Development
iPhone SDK 4.0 Beta – iPod Touch Problems
So the end of our semester is quickly approaching and I want to keep developing our Multimodal Rummy game. So like any good Apple fanboy I went out and picked up an 8GB iPod Touch 3rd gen. to do development with… Well it seems Apple wants you to spend the extra $100 on the bigger model because the 8GB is unofficially unsupported. Thanks Apple, now I get to pay BestBuy a restocking fee.
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Ran into a problem embedding video into our Multimodal Rummy application this weekend… seems things have changed with SDK 3.2. Honestly, once I figured out what I was doing wrong it was a very simple process. With the iPad you need to use MPMoviePlayerViewController instead of MPMoviePlayerController. However, our Multimodal Rummy application uses a landscape layout for most of the views, in particular the view that provides the link to the tutorial video. Since the MPMoviePlayer traditionally displays the content in portrait layout I had to create a simple MPMoviePlayerViewController subclass that contained the shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation method...
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