Moving to TouchTech

I'm excited to announce that I've just joined TouchTech, a Wellington-based mobile development company. TouchTech was orignally formed by Adrian Falvey and Adrian White in May 2010.  I met both Adrians several months ago and since then we've talked about offering mobile development services from a company instead of as independent developers.  We are really enthusiastic about pooling our skills and working together.

Niftybean will emphasize it's one-man-band-ness and probably change focus to be more of an extension of what I'm up to.  I can easily imagine more varied blogging for example...

All new work will be through TouchTech, so the Niftybean site will become home for personal projects and apps (like iSpeechCards or MyWorth) - who knows, there may even be more apps on the way, I have plenty of crazy ideas that are begging to be implemented.

Rotating UIPickerView between landscape and portrait orientations

One of the UI improvements in the first update of Niftybean's index cards app iSpeechCards is support for both landscape and portrait orientation when editing card content.  When editing a card's duration there's a custom UIPickerView displaying hours and minutes.  This picker is positioned at the bottom of the screen and also scales and stretches in landscape.

Here's the simplest way I've been able to achieve this using Interface Builder layout and minimal code in the view controller. For this example I'm using a UIDatePicker but any UIPickerView will work.

The quick solution

Use this quick solution if you don't mind the UIPickerView height staying at the default 216 px.

1. Create the elements and hook them into your code using IBOutlet
2. Support both orientations in the view controller.
   
3. Adjust the resizing mask in viewDidLoad: