In my case, this is really quite simple to implement, as I only need to check for the connection on the app launch, I included both Reachability.h & Reachability.m into my project, and import Reachability.h into my AppDelegate, and check it via the method below:

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- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {
	NetworkStatus internetConnectionStatus = [[Reachability sharedReachability] internetConnectionStatus];
	if (internetConnectionStatus == NotReachable) {
		// no connection
		UIImageView *noConnection = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"noNetwork.png"]];
		[window addSubview:noConnection];
		[noConnection release];
	} else {
		// connection, continue normally
		[window addSubview:[navBarController view]];
	}
	[window makeKeyAndVisible];
}

The second thing wrong with the NZRSS was something so small I wet myself laughing, on my Article view I had created a menu (as mentioned in the previous post), in that menu if the article has a “full article” link, I showed a Safari button, thats right a “Safari” icon, the apple do not approve the use of this (is it just me or is the UIWebView not safari? LOL), anyways, I found a new icon for this, and fixed that issue (also renamed it to WWW).

Sooo what does this mean? yep another week or two to get it approved, back to the waiting game (Or should I say, back to working on my game while waiting for the approval).

Flash Viral Link: Tauranga Websites

Ok so this week i have been busy working on this internal viral, this is a piece of advertising we are trialing to help increase the website development Totali does, this was rushed, and not too well thought out, but in the end I am still happy with the outcome in the amount of time available.

This is a simple flash game, which is interactive on a couple of levels, firstly it requires the user to input a name and phone number, from here you will receive a call from our automated phone service with instructions on how to play the game.

After this is complete the game starts, you simply have to shoot the twitter birds, get as many twitter birds as you can in 60 seconds to claim your discount voucher for our “Spring into Action” website promotion.

Note(s): The more birds you get, the bigger the discount. This is set up to only call NZ phone numbers

This only meant that the NZRSS App had to be better!, So I had to add the option to select the feeds you personally would like to read, instead of being stuck with all the feeds, this is where the settings came in, I tried to keep this as simple as possible, so I created checkboxes inside the UITableView’s Cells, this took some time to get working, as I had to keep an Array of which feeds had been checked, and which ones hadn’t. I also wanted a way of being able to check for new feeds, so I added a button to the bottom of the settings table which checks for newly added feeds (more on this shortly). The one thing I have yet to start working on is a system or way of re-ordering the feeds, I will be looking at doing this in a future release.

Once you have selected some feeds, they will show on the main screen, once you select/click a feed, the app then goes and pulls the live RSS feed from the desired source, and parses this ready for the next UITableView to display, this second view only shows the headlines of the selected feed, from selecting/clicking a headline will take you through to that particular article (Note: the amount of content in each article depends on how much content they have on their RSS feed).

I have included a menu bar under the article, which holds different things per article (e.g if there is a full page article link, it will show safari. or if the article has a audio file, this will show a play audio button), I have also added twitter in this menu, and will also be looking at adding more social networking websites to this menu.

That pretty much sums the application up, but lastly, where do the feeds come from? who has control over them? Well The NZRSS reader has a fairly wide list of RSS feeds around New Zealand, this list is currently controlled by Totali, in later versions I hope to add the functionality for users to submit feeds, for now if anyone would like to see any feeds in-particular, please leave me a comment.