News and Developer tip of the week
Posted by AVAI Mobile Developer on Mon, Jan 04, 2010 @ 11:02 AM
According to the Apple iPhone development center's News and Announcements section, iTunes connect will be unavailable from December 23rd to December 28th. It will be available again on December 29th. This is big news for anyone hoping to submit a new app or an update over the holiday season. You can also subscribe to the News and Announcements RSS feed now so you can stay up to the minute on all things iPhone. Subcribe now.
Now for the coder tip of the week. After writing numerous apps for the iPhone, I can honestly say I'm getting a little tired of the black and blue navigation bars. Recently, we've been trying to add a little pizzazz to our apps by modifying the appearance of the navigation bar. One way is to modify the tint color property. But that's iPhone programming 101, easy. Another way that I've recently discovered is to overwrite the UINavigationBar's drawRect method. Add this code to your AppDelegate and the Navigation Bar will display your custom image throughout your app.
Using an image like this 
will make the navigation bar look something like this:
Be careful though because this will make all navigation bars look like this, even the movie player's navigation bar.