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3 Excellent Books on iPhone Development

adit — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:03:26 +0000

iPhone has been a rage among users ever since it was launched in 2007 and it continues to be the leading mobile device today with millions of applications in the App Store. It has revolutionized mobile computing by giving everybody an opportunity to develop their own applications for the platform. You probably want to develop your own iPhone application, but the question is – Where to begin? There are hundreds of books available on iPhone programming, but not all of them are good enough to give you a quick head-start. In this article, we’ll tell you about three excellent book on iPhone development, which can quickly get you started with iPhone (and even iPad!) application development.

1. Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK

This is perhaps the best book for beginners in iPhone development. The book starts with the basics, walking you through the process of downloading and installing Apple’s free iPhone SDK, then stepping you though the creation of your first simple iPhone application. You’ll move on from there, mastering all the iPhone interface elements that you’ve come to know and love, such as buttons, switches, pickers, toolbars, sliders, etc. It will also introduce you to some more advanced topics like GPS API’s and accelerometer. It’s really a must have book for anyone interested in getting started quickly and efficiently with iPhone development.

2. iPhone Programming – The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

This book leads you through essential tools and techniques for developing applications for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. You’ll learn about mapping services, accessing accelerometer data, handling multi-touch gestures, ways of sorting and loading data, communication with web services and localization. The book has numerous visual cues and code samples, which will help you get a hang of iPhone programming. It really deserves a place on your bookshelf.

3. Programming in Objective C

The book is not iPhone specific, but it’s still very useful as you need to have a solid foundation in Objective C if you want to develop some really cool iPhone applications. The book assumes no prior programming knowledge and serves as an excellent guide for beginners. You’ll learn about the basics of Objective C programming, Foundation Framework and Cocoa and iPhone SDK.The separation of these main topics, Objective-C Language features and the Foundation Framework for example, almost guarantees that there won’t be much confusion if you are learning the language for the first time and that there will be a distinction between the topics and concepts for each section.

I hope you’ll find these books useful in iPhone application development. Do provide us your reviews in the comments section. :)

Making the Most of It: iPad & iPhone Screen Estate

prasanna — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:10:18 +0000

by Prasanna Kumar S
Sourcebits Senior iOS Developer

As iOS developers, we have some hard choices to make when we consider which devices to focus on as we develop our apps. Though many of you will shrug this off and point to universal builds as the key to the big time, that’s a far too obvious approach, and you’re probably shaving off huge chunks of the user experience by creating a one-size-fits-all app. One size may fit all, but it’s rarely a good fit.

One of the most striking differences between iPad and iPhone is the screen estate, and the implications for interface-conscious developers – which we all should strive to be – are tremendous. While the screen area for iPhone/iPod touch measures 10.4 inches (4.54” x 2.3”), the iPad screen enjoys a full 71 inches of area (9.56” x 7.47”) – almost 8 times bigger! Think of it like building a home: with just a small plot of land you’ll focus on the essentials: bedrooms, kitchen, living room, bath… certainly no spare room. But given a bigger plot you‘ll want to add a garden, a couple of parking spaces, and for sure build in that spare room. The same principle applies to iPad vs iPhone in terms of the user experience on offer with these very different screen sizes.

On iPhone, the smaller screen area dictates a pretty minimal interface for your app, whereas on iPad there are amazing opportunities with the more generous area. That being said, for certain apps the same interface on either display may be comfortable for users, especially apps built primarily for media or information consumption. For example, an app like Night Stand shares almost the same user interface on iPhone and iPad, and has been a spectacular hit on both. Why? Well, for starters it’s gorgeous. And ingenious programming doesn’t hurt, either. But also, once a user configures Night Stand it’s essentially an information consumption application (though the latest version brings in some more user-intensive features). Also, there’s one big exception with Night Stand for iPad, and that’s a new, iPad-only theme – one significantly awesome theme that really, REALLY shines on the big screen. But awesome themes notwithstanding, Night Stand still very much follows an app-to-user orientation; the user is still passive.

Nixie - beaming new gfx with subtle animations - only for iPad

The LCD color selection interface on iPad: a popover for live previews, on iPhone: small screen -> no popovers -> trip to the settings panel

On the other hand, consider some dual platform user-ACTIVE applications with upscaled interfaces for iPad. In the images here, iPhone is overlaid on top of iPad. (Click to enlarge.)

Sketchbook Pro

Bento

Flight Control, with richer maps and gameplay

Dropbox, with file browser and media previews

So while Apple will most likely put iPhone and iPad on the same track of iOS in the very near future, developers ought not assume that these devices are the same in terms of UX, or that users have the same expectations toward iPad and iPhone apps. Nope, expectations are growing increasingly different as each day passes, and the gap is only widening.

Just a few days ago we were watching Toy Story on the iPad, and it was a cinematic experience in miniature with the lights dimmed and munching on some snacks. Two people huddled around an iPhone watching a film for 90 minutes!? Not unthinkable, but certainly none too appealing. No doubt, iPhone is much better suited to snagging a glimpse at Facebook, tapping out the odd Tweet, light email, checking your schedule, that kind of stuff. I tend to use my iPhone in bursts, to get or give info as quickly as possible without going into details, whereas iPad can offer an immersive media consumption experience, like watching a full length film in style. When I browse the App Store for iPad games and applications, I look for things I can be time-intensive with. (And I’m not alone.) When I shop for an iPhone app it’s usually for a cool little game, or the latest social networking app to stay connected with my people. And yeah, isn’t that what a phone is made for in the first place: to keep in touch with friends and family? Now if I can do that, plus spend 30 – 40 mins playing puzzles or doodling or something, well, all the better!

Note the Productivity category, with iPad sales far outweighing iPhone. Business, finance, education, and anything reading-related are also natural fits for iPad.

So developers, before you start building your next app take some time to decide whether it best suits iPhone or iPad – or both. And if both, then how to differentiate. iPhone/iPod touch has a user base of almost 100 million compared to just over 3 million for iPad, but there are over 200 thousand apps for iPhone and just a few thousand for iPad. Getting noticed in the sea of iPhone apps is not so easy, but if you optimize your universal app for iPad (or develop exclusively for iPad) along the lines of what we’ve been discussing it’s far easier to make a splash.

Gyroscope: The New Opportunity [U]

anup — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:01:51 +0000

While the entire world was giddily anticipating the start of World Cup soccer this year, it was nose to the grindstone here at Sourcebits developing new soccer madness updates of Funbooth for Mac and iPhone. Work notwithstanding, our development team had serious fun during production of these applications. Throughout the beta testing and QA we were constantly capturing images of ourselves in the props of the teams we support, and we made the most of the new social features with the on-the-fly uploading to Facebook and Twitter. And at the same time, our gaming wing guys at Wandake were busy putting the finishing touches on their now-huge hit Wake Up the Box! for iPhone and iPad. So it was a real party at times.

While all this was going on, of course there was some big news on June 7, when Steve Jobs introduced yet another Apple engineering marvel: iPhone 4. Bundled with new features like front-facing camera, superior rear camera, dual mikes for increased noise cancellation, eye-popping Retina Display, multitasking, 720p HD video recording and even a new kind of gyroscope technology, iPhone 4 is a huge evolutionary step in smartphone design. As the tag line says: “This changes everything. Again.” And, marketing hyperbole aside, as far as day-to-day use is concerned for sure this will change the way we use iPhone.

Before this year’s launch, several leaked – or mislaid – iPhone 4 models made the rounds of the major tech blogs, complete with gory dissections and the standard tsunami of specu-babble. But there was one stealth feature all the teardowns and pundits failed to even guess at: the gyroscope. And on our side, as veteran iPhone developers, when Steve Jobs announced this during WWDC we were all pretty excited. And while it still hasn’t gotten much attention in the press, this feature is a game changer in iPhone’s rivalry with Android and Symbian devices.

Apple’s been pioneering smartphone innovations since iPhone’s introduction in 2007 with many widely imitated micro-technologies, in particular the accelerometer. The accelerometer is a type of sensor that detects changes in a device’s orientation, vibration, rotation or fall by detecting linear acceleration along one of the three X, Y and Z axes – that is: up/down, right/left, and front/back.

3-axis accelerometers enable features we by now take for granted in smartphones (and lately, too, in non-Apple branded consumer digital cameras, music players, and gaming peripherals). For example, landscape/portrait orientation shifting, tilt for directional control in games and applications, and shake features for refreshing a webpage or shuffling a playlist. The 1st generation of accelerometer – pre iPhone 4 – could measure only linear motion; it couldn’t sense direction on a compass or twisting motions or rotation, nor had any notion of gravity.

Then last year Apple added a magnetometer to the iPhone 3Gs, enabling it to sense magnetized direction relative to the Earth’s poles. And now, with the introduction of the gyro in iPhone 4, Apple once more ups the ante in spatial detection / orientation with a new sensor for detecting 3-axis angular acceleration around the X,Y and Z axes, enabling far more precise virtualization of pitch, yaw and roll on iPhone.

While detection of change in velocity has been possible for some time thanks to conventional accelerometer calculations in terms of linear acceleration, the gyroscope has been designed to detect angular acceleration, which will detect change in both velocity and direction at the same time. iPhone 4’s gyroscope enables the sensing of even slight degrees of rotation while simultaneously rejecting linear movements and hand jitters – both still ably handled by accelerometer’s linear movement detection technology.

Combining the 3 axes of the gyroscope along with the 3 axes of the accelerometer now enables iPhone to recognize distance, speed and direction as it moves real-time through space. And thanks to the CoreMotion APIs in iOS, developers with the vision to make use of gyroscope data can access it freely, as some have already done.

Of course iPhone 4 already includes gyroscope support, but it’s a safe bet the gyro will be baked into future versions of iPod touch, and naturally, iPad. iPhone devs who can make use of this amazing new technology will find opportunities aplenty on the new platforms, especially games producers and developers.

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update: Death Star or iPhone gyroscope? iFixit has the goods.

Version Control Application for your iPhone

rohit — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:53:17 +0000

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iPhone Application a day – Everyday – with Code

rohit — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:41:39 +0000

A brilliant blogger / coder by name Matt is making an iphone app every day, posting detailed information about it and also sharing the code with the masses. Enormous resource for all iPhone developers.

OpenGL ES Tips and Tricks for Game Programming

rohit — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:32:52 +0000

We all know OpenGL ES only accepts textures that are power 2. What if we have non standard textures ? Craig Giles has posted a solution for the same with the code snippet.

[source Journey into XNA]

iPhone 3.0 Programming Examples and Tutorials

rohit — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:46:18 +0000

This is a gold mine for all those who are looking for examples and tutorials for iphone application development. The examples include making your first app, editable detail view, animating a view, table views etc. Get a kick-start in iphone development, check the site now.

Best Practices for developing an iPhone / iPod Touch Application

rohit — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:40:12 +0000

Brian LeRoux discusses the best practices that can help an iPhone developer make a commercially successful iPhone application / game. The points that he discusses includes: focus, user interface design, approach, development tools, testing and appstore submission. Read the complete article here.

[source Mashable]

Creating your own iPhone Framework!

rohit — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:48:27 +0000

Scott means has posted couple of resources for developing your own iPhone framework. iPhone development frameworks can be used in various iPhone application / game development projects. Few popular examples are Unity 3D, JSON Framework etc.

How to Develop / Create a Shopping Cart Application for iPhone ?

rohit — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:10:03 +0000

A 30 minute video tutorial demonstrating the entire coding process of developing a shopping cart app for iphone / ipod touch is published here. The author is also kind enough to share the entire source code for the application.

[source OnlineTutorialVids]

XML Parsing Frameworks for iPhone Development

rohit — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:06:29 +0000

An excellent article by Mike on various XML frameworks available for iPhone SDK, particularly, TouchXML, KissXML. The article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using each one of them. As Sourcebits we extensively use TinyXML framework in our projects and highly recommend it too.

[source 71squared]

Resources to Learn 3D and Game programming on iPhone

rohit — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:42:34 +0000

For doing programming in 3D on iPhone, either we use the OpenGLES or use existing 3D frameworks like Unity3D, Oblong engine etc. Here are 8 great resources that will help you get started in 3D and game development on iPhone.

[source Maniacdev]

How to make your iPhone application accelerometer / rotation aware ?

rohit — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:41:33 +0000

A very detailed iPhone Development tutorial in which author uses the example of a digital clock to describe how the app can handle the rotation using iPhone accelerometer api calls. Source code included.

[source theappleblog]

Open Source Objective C Library for Facebook Connect

rohit — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:12:52 +0000

Joe Hewitt, has released the facebook source code library in Objective C for iPhone developers. This is a real good resource for developers that are looking to integrate their iPhone applications with Facebook. Download it from here.

[source infoworld]

jQTouch – jQuery plugin for iPhone Web Development

rohit — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:02:31 +0000

jQTouch is a jQuery plugin that allows development of iphone web applications with native animations and default application styles. Alpha release is available here.

Facebook Connect Software Development Kit (SDK) for iPhone

rohit — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:00:22 +0000

Good news for iPhone developers, Facebook has released a SDK for iPhone; Facebook Connect, that allows developers to hook up their native iPhone applications with the Facebook and take advantage of the vast facebook userbase. Download the SDK from here.

Native iPhone Applications using JavaScript, HTML & CSS ?

rohit — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:55:01 +0000

Yes, creating native iPhone applications using common web technologies is possible now, using PhoneGap. PhoneGap is a cross platform mobile framework that lets any web developer make native iPhone, Android and Blackberry applications.

Programming Dates in iPhone SDK

rohit — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:37:27 +0000

If you have been troubled with mundane tasks like Get Today’s date while developing your iPhone applications then this tutorial is for you.

[source howtomakeiphoneapps]

OpenAL Audio Programming on iPhone

rohit — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:21:38 +0000

An excellent tutorial along with code snippets for writing an OpenAL sound loader, OpenAL wrapper class and actual code to play some audio files in iPhone.

[source Gehacktes]

Multi Threaded Image Loading

rohit — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:40:13 +0000

A very thorough article including the source code, for loading multiple images from sites like flickr in your iphone app in an asynchronous manner, so that delay is less and user experience is quick and neat. Read it here.

Code for Sending email from your iPhone App

rohit — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:19:08 +0000

A quick and short tutorial plus code for calling mail app in iphone from your application and automatically filling in the address, subject and content. Read it here.

[source iCodeBlog]

Extending the iPhone’s SDK’s UIColor class

rohit — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:31:09 +0000

A very detailed article along with code samples for extending iPhone SDK UIColor class and make it more useful by Ars Technica.

Start writing iPhone game code

rohit — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:25:56 +0000

A detailed article about writing code especially for developers who have experience with XNA framework.

[source Journey into XNA]

Memory Management for iPhone Applications

rohit — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:43:52 +0000

Managing memory is very important part of iPhone software development because of the hardware limitations. If the memory is not managed properly it leads to all those embarrassing crashes that can be avoided by following this excellent list of resources and tutorials for memory management on iPhone.

[source MobileOrchard]

Performance difference between iPhone Simulator and real device

rohit — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:37:33 +0000

An article by Savoy titled,”My iPhone is not a Mac Pro” brings out clearly that the performance we see for the iPhone apps on a simulator is not the same that we get in the real device. They have given a thorough explanation, read it here.

[source savoysoftware]

NSApplication – How it works ?

rohit — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:29:03 +0000

Matt Gallagher explains the steps that occur between program startup and the dispatch of events to your code — so you can gain greater understanding of what NSApplication does on your behalf. Read it here.

[source Cocoawithlove]

How to Parse XML using iPhone SDK ?

rohit — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:40:08 +0000

A nice tutorial by Craig Giles for parsing xml using iPhone SDK. Read it here.

Point and click web app development for iPhone with ModelBaker Framework

rohit — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:37:28 +0000

ModelBaker delivers point and click web development for iPhone and Android with practically no knowledge of coding required. Download the free demo here.

How to make your iPhone apps more responsive ?

rohit — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:58:50 +0000

Jonathan Saggau wrote an article about iPhone programming where he discusses how to optimize memory to avoid crashes at runtime. Also he explains some tricks that will make your iPhone applications, particularly the ones that are dealing with xml parsing and the cloud more responsive. Read it here.

iWebKit 4.0: iPhone Webapps Framework

rohit — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:08:02 +0000

iWebKit framework allows for easy creation of iPhone webapps/websites and requires very little programming knowledge.

[source iPhone World]

Checklist for iPhone developers and user interface designers

rohit — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:57:02 +0000

APCmag has posted a list of things for iPhone developers and UI designers that will help in making a usable and beautiful iPhone app.

Interesting tidbits for OpenGL programming on iPhone

rohit — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:29:44 +0000

I have been following this blog for sometime and must say the author Wolfgang Engel is posting some of the best tips for game programmers on iPhone. A must bookmark for every iPhone programmer.

UITabBarController Tutorial

rohit — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:46:25 +0000

The UITabBarController is a container that helps switch between different views using tabs, as can be seen in number of iPhone apps like NyTimes, MarketingProfs etc. A very nice tutorial on how to use this container along with source code for iPhone programming is posted by MIT student Edward Benson on his blog. Read it here.

[source Edward Benson Blog]

Porting Ruby Apps to iPhone

rohit — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:38:21 +0000

Rhodes, a new open source toolkit developed by Rhomobile makes it possible to port Ruby applications on to iPhone, Windows Mobile devices, and the BlackBerry.

[source MobileOrchard]

How to load a 3D Model ?

rohit — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:35:24 +0000

A very nice tutorial for new comers to OpenGL / iPhone programming that explains how you can load 3D Model from various popular 3D applications out there.

A review of available iPhone programming books

rohit — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:05:36 +0000

A review of three books that are available for iPhone programmers: Programming in Objective-C, Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK and The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook.

Read it here.

[source iPhone Obsessed]

Oolong Game Engine for iPhone

rohit — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:59:57 +0000

The Oolong Engine is written in C++ with some help from Objective-C. It will help you to create new games and port existing games to the iPhone and the iPod touch. The best part is, its free.

Cocoa Framework a mirror image of Actionscript ?

rohit — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:24:01 +0000

Flash and Cocoa are shockingly similar. Much of the Cocoa framework is a mirror image of Actionscript classes / components. For example:

UIView = MovieClip
NSNotification = Event
UIButton = Button

Read the full article here

[source Insideria]

Video Out support in SDK v2.2

rohit — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:23:33 +0000

iPhone‘s latest SDK contains a programming class called MPTVOutWindow, which enables the iPhone’s Video-Out function, thus allowing the handset to send a video signal through the Dock Connector to an external display.

[source Cellaz]

iPhone SDK v2.2 – New AVFoundation framework

rohit — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:09:26 +0000

The new AVFoundation framework represents one of the most significant changes to the newly updated iPhone 2.2 SDK. It offers a simple playback system for anyone flummoxed by the inhospitality of Audio Queues. More ..

[source ArsTechnica]

Intro to iPhone Programming

rohit — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:53:27 +0000

A nice video tutorial, that gives an introduction to iPhone programming.

iPhone vs. Android development

rohit — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:55:30 +0000

5-day course on iPhone programming presented by Big Nerd Ranch, in particular to point out differences between Android and iPhone development.

[source zdnet]

Tips for Map Applications on iPhone

rohit — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:41:10 +0000

Little pieces of code to help you launch and use map application from your iPhone app.

[source objective-d]

SQLite Resources for iPhone Developers

rohit — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:52:07 +0000

A collection of the best SQLite related tutorials, and libraries in order to help developers in their iPhone development.

[source MobileOrchard]

Localizing iPhone Apps

rohit — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:55:50 +0000

A tutorial to develop a custom formatter class that is used to display local specific data.

[source iPhoneSDKArticles]

BASIC programming for iPhone

rohit — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:56:10 +0000

Point your iPhone or iPod touch to http://virtualgs.larwe.com/gsbasic and you can key in a BASIC program – similar to Applesoft BASIC. It supports the Apple II Lores graphics and text mode.

[source Retromaccast]

Quick SMTP client code for the iPhone: skpsmtpmessage

rohit — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:47:35 +0000

This should be very useful for developers who are looking to provide email functionality in their iphone app. You can download and read more info about it here

[source Alex blog]

Excellent iPhone Programming Chapters by Stanford University

rohit — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:27:56 +0000

Must read for all iPhone developers, here.

[source Stanford University]

iPhone development – Step by step for DOTNET / J2ME / Windows Mobile Developers

rohit — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:29:51 +0000

A nice article for the developers who are on the opposite side of Mac and are looking to get started on the iPhone platform. Read it here.

Debugging tips for Objective-C programming

rohit — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:03:20 +0000

An excellent article by Matt Gallagher about debugging cocoa applications. In the article Matt discusses about Objective-C specific gdb tips and commands that all Cocoa programmers should know.

[source Cocoawithlove]

iPhone Developer Forum Beta

rohit — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:34:25 +0000

Apple finally has opened the developer forums for iPhone platform just like they have it for mac. This should be a good resource for both new and experienced iPhone developers.

iPhone SDK vs Android SDK: Which is better ?

rohit — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:46:25 +0000

Christian Klotz posts about his experience with Android and iPhone SDK and tells us which is a better platform for developers. Read it here.

Tips for iPhone Development using Objective C

rohit — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:21:34 +0000

8 very useful tips when starting iPhone development using Objective C. As per author, “These are the 8 biggest foul-ups that I wish I had known before I started learning Objective-C. Hopefully you’ll learn something here that will prevent you from making an idiotic mistake I already made.”

[source Pathfinder]

How to build an iPhone application

rohit — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:08:10 +0000

A nice article posted by ZDnet covers the basics of what you need to start developing your first iPhone application. Read it here.

[source ZDnet]

Make iPhone apps without knowing Cocoa

rohit — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:25:13 +0000

AppLoop launched a mobile application generator which lets you turn any RSS feed into a mobile application for iPhone, even if you don’t have any programming experience.

[source Readwriteweb]

iPhone Fonts – Issues related to Programming

rohit — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:32:01 +0000

Late Night Code has posted a nice article on the fonts available on iPhone that developers can make use of in their apps and the article also explains the subtle differences in the fonts available on Mac platform as compared to iPhone. Good read.

[source Late Night Code]

iPhone & iPod Game Programming Forum

rohit — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:24:48 +0000

iDevGames has opened a message board for iPhone / iPod game development.

[source iDevGames]

iCodeblog – iPhone Programming Tutorials

rohit — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:13:15 +0000

iCodeblog is a good resource for programming tutorials on iPhone platform. Like us, this blog is new and there are only few tutorials but looks like so far so good.

[source iCodeblog]