iOS Development

XCode 5 – found these useful, though much of this applies to XCode 4:

• Hello, iPhone! Xamarin sample iOS app

• StackOverflow Question: How to Track a Line Drawn With Your Finger?

  • Drawing And Printing in iOS

  • UIBezierPath Tutorial for iPhone SDK 4.0

  • GLPaint sample project

• iOS Touch Walkthrough (Xamarin)

• Showing UIBezierPath on view

• Drawing With CoreGraphics (Xamarin)

• Xamarin – Getting Started With CoreGraphics (slideshow)

• Xamarin – Add a New View (subclassing a UIView)

• Overriding UIViewController’s view property, done right

• UIView Tutorial for iOS: How To Make a Custom UIView in iOS 5: A 5 Star Rating View

• Using LoadNib to Load a View

OS Maintenance

• OS X in VirtualBox – How To Change the Resolution?

  • ReportCrash man page – you can disable ReportCrash if it is taking up a lot of CPU.

OS X in VirtualBox

• Use myHack to install your retail copy of OS X Mavericks in VirtualBox

  • First use iBoot to install an older version of OS X; I used my retail disc of Snow Leopard

    • I have an Ivy Bridge Core i7, so I needed the iBoot for Ivy Bridge

  • Then, download myHack and follow the Guide

    • For the installer, I created a new, 8GB vdi disk and put the installer on that. Once the install was complete, I disconnected the VDI

Hackintosh (Toshiba Sattelite L855-S5372)

• TonyMacX86 – Need access to a Mac for these. Unibeast for install

• Chainload from GRUB into Chamelion

• How I got Chimera working on laptop, when booting with Unibeast was OK

• Installing VoodooPS2Controller for trackpad

• DSDT editor

• DV6 laptop configuration and kexts

• Backlight off after sleep

• VoodooBattery.kext

• VoodooHDA (audio)

  • Common sound problems

• How to make your own DSDT files with DSDT editor

• For my L855, I ended up extracting my DSDT, and applying all of the Sandy Bridge patches that came with DSDT editor.

• SleepEnabler Universal

org.chamelion.Boot.plist

This file is found in the /Extra folder, when Chimera bootloader (or Chamelion, which Chimera is a derivative of) is installed.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>Boot Banner</key>
        <string>No</string>
        <key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
        <string>No</string>
        <key>Instant Menu</key>
        <string>Yes</string>
        <key>IGPEnabler</key>
        <string>Yes</string>
        <key>Kernel Flags</key>
        <string></string>
        <key>Legacy Logo</key>
        <string>Yes</string>
        <key>UseKernelCache</key>
        <string>No</string>
        <key>IGPlatformID</key>
        <string>01660003</string>
        <key>darkwake</key>
        <string>No</string>
</dict>
</plist>