PUBLIC MARKS from oseres with tag ios

Prototype

For the past few months I’ve been meaning to spend some time to check out the quick look document previewer on iOS – what follows is a short app that I wrote to get familiar with the QLPreviewController API. For those unfamiliar with the quick look previewer, it is a framework that provides quick previewing of a range of document types – supported documents include iWork documents, Microsoft Office, Rich Text Format, PDF, images, text files and comma-separated (csv) files.

App Design Handbook

If you’ve been through the distribution process of an Ad Hoc application, you can appreciate the challenges of getting a build installed on someone’s device. From the differences of working with users on Windows versus Mac machines, to explaining how to import an Ad Hoc provisioning file and the associated build into iTunes, this process is anything but a walk in the park. In this post I’ll take you through the steps of deploying Ad Hoc builds over-the-air, where users simply point the Safari web-browser (on their iPhone) to a link and tap to install the provisioning file and associated application.