Run symbolicatecrash from command prompt on any .crash file for your iPhone apps

1. copy symbolicatecrash from /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DTDeviceKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ to a folder in desktop

2. copy the .app and .dSYM and .crash to the same folder

3. then run: ./symbolicatecrash .crash .app

How to make images transparent on the fly in an iPhone app?

Recently I had to clean-up images on the fly. I didn't find anything by googling. After trying out different things , I ended up with the following piece of code that removes the white background from any image on the fly and makes it totally transparent

-(UIImage *)createMask:(UIImage*)temp {
     size_t height = CGImageGetHeight(temp.CGImage);
     size_t width = CGImageGetWidth(temp.CGImage);
     UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(CGSizeMake(width, height));
     CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
     const float colorMasking[6] = { 255.0, 255.0, 255.0, 255.0, 255.0, 255.0};
     CGImageRef maskedImageRef = CGImageCreateWithMaskingColors(temp.CGImage, colorMasking);    
     CGContextDrawImage (context, CGRectMake(0, 0, width, height), maskedImageRef);
     UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
     UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
     return image;
}

Note that you can give a range of colors to CGImageCreateWithMaskingColors..

How do we change the appearance of nav bar throughout the app?

Add this at the top of app delegate ..

@implementation UINavigationBar(MyOwn)
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"MyOwmImage.png"];
[image drawInRect:rect];
}
@end

Now if we set the tint color of the nav bar then that will be used as the background color for all bar button items.

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