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artapp/.gitignore

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+#ignore thumbnails created by windows
+Thumbs.db
+#Ignore files build by Visual Studio
+*.obj
+*.pdb
+*.user
+*.aps
+*.pch
+*.vspscc
+*_i.c
+*_p.c
+*.ncb
+*.suo
+*.tlb
+*.tlh
+*.bak
+*.cache
+*.ilk
+*.log
+[Bb]in
+[Dd]ebug*/
+*.lib
+*.sbr
+obj/
+[Rr]elease*/
+_ReSharper*/
+[Tt]est[Rr]esult*
+deploy.config
+Examples*/
+*.vsmdi
+*.pidb
+*.userprefs
+*.testrunconfig
+publish.xml
+TestResults
+*.DS_Store

artapp/LICENSE.markdown

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+ArtApp
+--------------------------------------
+Copyright (c) 2012 Daniel Crenna
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+THE SOFTWARE.
+
+
+Third Party Licenses
+--------------------
+1. SSToolkit - A fair number of useful components and vignette images were 
+sourced from this great library under the following license:
+
+Copyright (c) 2008-2012 Sam Soffes
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+2. MAConfirmButton - I ported the essential bits of this simple but elegant 
+reproduction of the iOS App Store "Buy" button:
+
+Copyright (c) 2011 Mike Ahmarani
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
+obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
+files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
+restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
+copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
+conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
+OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
+HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
+WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
+OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+3. MonoTouch.Dialog - I used a bare minimum extract of MonoTouch.Dialog 
+licensed under the terms of the MIT X11 license.
+
+4. TweetStation - I referenced a few classes for the biography views from 
+Miguel de Icaza's TweetStation project, as well as the built-in web view
+controller, licensed under the terms of the 
+MIT X11 license.
+
+5. iDevRecipes - I ported the custom tab bar implementation from Peter Boctor's
+excellent iDevRecipes site, unfortunately I can't find any explicit license terms
+on [the GitHub project page](https://github.com/boctor/idev-recipes)
+
+6. Glyphish - Tab bar and web browser icons are attributed to [Glyphish](http://glyphish.com).
+Two background images are part of Glyphish Backgrounds, and are watermarked. You must 
+purchase Glyphish Backgrounds to use the unwatermarked versions or provide your own replacements.
+
+7. NYXImagesKit - Some gradient code was cobbled together from sources in this toolkit under
+the license below:
+
+Copyright 2011 Benjamin Godard. All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are
+permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+
+   1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of
+      conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+   2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list
+      of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials
+      provided with the distribution.
+
+THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY BENJAMIN GODARD ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
+WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL BENJAMIN GODARD OR
+CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
+CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
+SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON
+ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING
+NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
+ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+
+The views and conclusions contained in the software and documentation are those of the
+authors and should not be interpreted as representing official policies, either expressed
+or implied, of Benjamin Godard.

artapp/README.markdown

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+![screenshot](https://github.com/danielcrenna/artapp/raw/master/screenshot.jpg) 
+
+artapp
+======
+A beautiful art showcase app for iPhone, built with [MonoTouch](http://xamarin.com/monotouch).
+
+_Artists and Galleries_: If you really want an app that looks like this one but don't know how to program, and 
+don't have any friends that program, [get in touch](mailto:daniel.crenna@gmail.com) and we can work something out
+at a reasonable rate to get your app in the store.
+
+Introduction
+============
+Not every great idea becomes a business. I had the idea for a mobile art showcase application which could be purchased
+by subscription, similar to how [MobileRoadie](http://mobileroadie.com)'s business model works with recording artists,
+authors, and other A-listers. But rather than a canned mobile CMS, I wanted artists to stand out from the crowd with
+a unique, virtual gallery experience. Above all, it had to be beautiful, which is why I enlisted the great [Gilbert
+Guttmann](http://gttmnn.com/), a fantastic artist and person, that I was lucky to meet and work with during my short
+stint at [Wildbit](http://wildbit.com).
+
+With that vision I went to work, choosing MonoTouch as my development platform mostly due to my lightning speed in
+C# and the compressed time I would be able to work on this project (which was in twenty minute doses due to my other,
+far more important side project of raising a child). Since MonoTouch is not free, that might be a sticking point
+for this particular offering, but I can tell you that even if you're an Objective-C developer on the main, MonoTouch
+is a fantastic framework and beyond a few small details, you can translate Objective-C to C# line by line, as it is
+not a simulator or translation layer between you and Cocoa, it's pure interop against native iOS APIs.
+
+Launching
+=========
+Teaming up with the insanely talented [Meaghan Ogilvie](http://meaghanogilvie.com) of Toronto, a photographer with 
+a penchant for underwater photography, we launched Meaghan's [own application](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meaghan-ogilvie/id504171885?ls=1&mt=8) shortly after [The Artist Project](http://theartistproject.com/), an 
+independent fine art exhibition in March 2012. The application was well received by many independent artists, and 
+our value proposition seemed sound: developing an iPhone application is a costly venture for anyone, especially one 
+of high quality, and providing this service at an ultra affordable price for artists meant they could stand out in 
+a crowd, showcase their work, and ultimately get greater exposure, a better portfolio, and more art sales. 
+Art shows are an expensive proposition, with no guarantee of success. We wanted a grass roots way to achieve the
+same results through a digital medium.
+
+Learning
+========
+After conducting customer interviews and talking to over a hundred artists about a service like this one, and other
+more successful technologists that I respect, it became clear to me that solving the problem of artist exposure is 
+not the same proposition as solving the problem of increasing demand for an artist's work, which is the the ultimate
+goal. Artists want to sell more of their art, so they can make more art over the long run. Giving them another channel
+in which to shout into the void is not the best answer I can come up with. I've got a slow hunch about what a better 
+answer could be.
+
+Aftermath
+=========
+Deciding to re-think the problem, I was left with shuttering this incarnation, but there were a lot of challenges
+that were solved in this application I was proud of, from a visual perspective as well as technical. It would be a
+shame to toss it in the can and move along, especially if there was still some value, for artists, or programmers, or
+both, that could be salvaged from the remains, such as:
+
+* It's an example of a real, professionally developed iOS application using MonoTouch, that made it to the App Store.
+* It's a beautiful app that can be repurposed for other artists, and galleries, by their programmer friends, for free.
+* It's designed to be very simple to switch out content, just add images, a new JSON manifest, and you're good to go.
+* Some of the technical challenges (like transparent nav bars) are tricky to solve in MonoTouch; this is a great cheat sheet.
+
+Future
+======
+You can use this freely, under the MIT License, to help out your favorite artist or gallery by making them a slick
+iPhone application (making it work with an iPad should be simply a matter of adjusting cartesian coordinates, since
+the assets are already high resolution, but I didn't have the time to get it into the codebase, sorry). You could
+even decide I'm insane for giving this away and try to fill the void (if you do that, and you succeed, please buy 
+all of Meaghan's collected works and install them in your swanky new startup office). You could use it to learn iOS 
+if you know C# and aren't ready to switch to Objective-C whole hog. You could print out the source code and use the
+other side as note paper.
+
+
+Nitty Gritty
+============
+* This application is provided as-is. I'll happily take patches but I can't respond to issues. Whatever warts that
+came with it, made it into the App Store, and there definitely are warts (some embarassing if you really want to
+go hunt for them; code you write to ship is sometimes not the intellectual cornucopia you're capable of, nor should
+it be). 
+* I cut a vast majority of the features attempting to develop the minimum viable product, so any extensions are up to you. 
+* You get to use Gilbert's layered PSD files as part of this open source license, but, it should go without saying, Meaghan's
+  fine art is not part of that license, and her work remains fully her own. 
+* Some of the assets, namely icons and two backgrounds, are purchased from [Glyphish](http://glyphish.com), so you need to own those _very reasonably
+priced_ assets if you want to publish your own apps using this code base. Glyphish is a force of good in the universe. Support it!
+
+Art needs technology, and vice versa. Here's some code to help artists. I hope you'll use it.
+
+Daniel Crenna

artapp/src/ArtApp.Core/AppDelegate.cs

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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using MonoTouch.Foundation;
+using MonoTouch.UIKit;
+using System.Diagnostics;
+using System.Drawing;
+using System.IO;
+using MonoTouch.CoreGraphics;
+using MonoTouch.ObjCRuntime;
+
+namespace ArtApp
+{
+	[Preserve]
+	public partial class AppDelegate : UIApplicationDelegate
+	{
+		private static UINavigationController _navigationController;
+		public static UINavigationController NavigationController
+		{
+			get
+			{
+				return _navigationController;
+			}
+		}
+
+		public static CustomNavigationBar NavigationBar
+		{
+			get
+			{
+				return NavigationController.NavigationBar as CustomNavigationBar;	
+			}
+		}
+
+		private static UIWindow _window;
+		public static UIWindow ApplicationWindow
+		{
+			get
+			{
+				return _window;	
+			}
+		}
+
+		public override bool FinishedLaunching (UIApplication app, NSDictionary options)
+		{
+			CheckBundleVersion();
+
+			// Required to set background color behind flip transition
+			// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4252350/change-background-color-of-uimodaltransitionstylefliphorizontal
+			_window = window;
+			_window.BackgroundColor = UIColor.Black;
+			_navigationController = navigationController;
+			_navigationController.View.BackgroundColor = UIColor.Black;
+
+			UIApplication.SharedApplication.StatusBarStyle = UIStatusBarStyle.BlackOpaque;
+
+			window.RootViewController = navigationController;
+			window.MakeKeyAndVisible();			
+
+			return true;
+		}
+
+		private static void CheckBundleVersion()
+		{
+			// Drop a version nugget and clear the disk cache if one didn't previously exist, or it's not the same
+			var version = AppGlobal.BundleVersion;
+
+			string appdir = NSBundle.MainBundle.BundleUrl.Path;
+    		string cache = Path.GetFullPath (Path.Combine (appdir, "..", "Library", "Caches"));
+
+			var versionPath = Path.Combine(cache, "v.txt");
+			var dumpDiskCache = false;
+
+			if(!File.Exists(versionPath))
+			{
+				dumpDiskCache = true;
+				File.WriteAllText(versionPath, version);
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				var versionOnDisk = File.ReadAllText(versionPath);
+				if(!version.Equals(versionOnDisk))
+				{
+					dumpDiskCache = true;
+					File.WriteAllText(versionPath, version);
+				}
+			}
+
+			if(dumpDiskCache)
+			{
+				ImageCache.Clear();
+				ImageCache.DumpDiskCache();	
+			}
+		}
+
+		// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9368498/monotouch-items-saved-to-library-caches-never-staying-around
+		private void DisplayCachesContent()
+		{
+			string appdir = NSBundle.MainBundle.BundleUrl.Path;
+		    string cache = Path.GetFullPath (Path.Combine (appdir, "..", "Library", "Caches"));
+		    Console.WriteLine ("Files:");
+		    int i = 0;
+		    foreach (string file in Directory.GetFiles(cache, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories))
+			{
+				Console.WriteLine ("{0}. {1}", i++, file);
+			}
+		}
+
+		public override void OnActivated(UIApplication application)
+        {
+			// Required for iOS 3.0
+        }
+
+		public override void ReceiveMemoryWarning (UIApplication application)
+		{
+			ImageCache.Clear();
+		}
+	}
+}