John's App Blog

Round corners of a squared image using Pixelmator

John MacAdam — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 01:05:07 +0000

Round Corners with Pixelmator from John MacAdam on Vimeo.

I often find myself needing to round corners of an app icon for promotional graphics. I put together a quick screen cast tutorial that does just that. This demonstration uses Pixelmator for Mac. Here are the steps as shown in the video:

Edit – Select All
Edit – Refine Selection
Change the “Smooth” value as desired
Edit – Invert Selection
Hit the Delete key to clear

Unable to edit input element Phonegap iOS

John MacAdam — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 02:42:40 +0000

Are you having trouble editing the value of an input element in your iOS Phonegap app? It may likely be the CSS rule used to prohibit users from selecting content by long pressing: -webkit-user-select: none;

Apply the rule -webkit-user-select: text; to your input element to fix the issue.

cordova build failed after adding a new plugin

John MacAdam — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 02:07:02 +0000

Nothing interrupts your productivity like a random Build Failed from the CLI. If your build is failing after you recently added a new plugin and especially if you are getting a CpResource error here is the solution for iOS and Xcode:

Open the Xcode project
Click on the App name in the sidebar.
Click the Build Phases tab.
Open the Copy Bundle Resources section.
Any missing resources will show up in red. You need to add them manually.

For instance, I recently added the cordova dialogs plugin to my iOS project. The build failed with the CpResource error and CDVNotification.bundle was the missing resource. I was able to locate the bundle in the root project folder – plugins – org.apache.cordova.dialogs – src – ios.

Problems with the Phonegap/Cordova geolocation plugin on iOS 8

John MacAdam — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:26:51 +0000

Are you having issues with your location aware Phonegap app on iOS 8? I did too. My first attempt to deploy an existing app through Xcode on an iOS 8 device did not work. The application would not recognize my iPhone location.

Here is the quick solution:

In Xcode click on your app name in the sidebar
Click the Build Phases tab
Expand the Compile Sources section
Click the + sign and add CDVLocation.m to the list of sources

That should do the trick. If not, try reinstalling the plugin:

In Terminal navigate to the project folder
cordova plugin rm org.apache.cordova.geolocation
cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.geolocation
cordova build

If you still have issues after this you need to create a new cordova project, add all of the plugins, copy all resources (www folder, splash screens, and icons) and rebuild.