Creating some UITableViewCells with a main label and a secondary detail label (as we allready knew from the e.g. settings menu on the iPhone) to show some kind of a selected value isn’t very complicated but annoying anyway. The ways to do that were either to create a label as subview programmatically or you used the Interface Builder to provide a nib file including the cell.
This common task was greatly facilitated by the introduction of the new iPhone SDK 3.0, which now supports a few styles for UITableViewCells (see UITableViewCellStyle for more information). The following example shows how to create such a simple table cell:
//create a cell with the style UITableViewCellStyleValue1
UITableViewCell *cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc]
initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleValue1
reuseIdentifier:@"yourReuseIdentifier"];
//the main label will be shown on the left side
[cell.textLabel setText:@"mainLabel"];
//the detail label will be shown on the right side
//in blue color, right-aligned and in a smaller font size
[cell.detailTextLabel setText:@"detailLabel"];
The result of this will be something like that:
After finally getting a G1 from T-Mobile for testing purposes I quickly realized it is pretty useless if you want to do edge development because you are not allowed to upgrade the latest firmware (at least not straightforward because you need a signed version from T-Mobile). So I ordered an Android Dev Phone 1 which arrived incredibly fast and came in an incredibly unimaginative box that smelled like gummy bears 
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After unboxing I started the upgrade process, and as there of course were some minor complications I will outline the detailed steps here.
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Ever wondered how to place more than one button into a navigation bar in your app? I know it doesn’t look neat at all! The class UIBarButtonItem allows us to initialize a new instance with a custom view. This instance can be used as a kind of a toolbar and you can put as much buttons as you like in there. The toolbar again can be used for the rigthtBarButtonItem or leftBarButtonItem. Please remember:
- Keep your interface clean and simple and
- Be consistent with the iPhone Human Interface Guideline
For those guys, who still demand on more than one button on the left or right side of a navigation bar, the following code snippet could be useful.
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