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iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
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iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

by Aaron Hillegass, Joe Conway
April 2010
Beginner to intermediate
480 pages
10h 9m
English
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25. Settings

Many applications include preferences that users can customize. Whether users are picking the size of the text or storing passwords, there is a standard way of enabling iPhone application preferences. In this chapter, you will use the NSUserDefaults class to add a preference to your Nayberz application. This preference will specify the message that you publish in your net service (Figure 25.1).

Figure 25.1. Nayberz Settings pane

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Settings Bundle

In the top-level directory of an iPhone application bundle, the filename Settings.bundle is reserved for a directory to contain the application’s preference settings. To add preferences to ...

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