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Need to use your own custom font? Or you want to support a certain font that isn’t on older iPhonts? Check out the project FontLabel.

To use FontLabel:
1. Get a copy of the project: https://github.com/zynga/FontLabel.git

2. Add the files to your project:

3. Add a font file to your project. You can find several free fonts here: http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html

4. In your AppDelegate, add the import:

#import “FontManager.h”

And then load the font file in the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:

– (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
// Load Custom Fonts
[[FontManager sharedManager] loadFont:@”FuturaBoldBT”];
}

In my example, I used the font “FuturaBoldBT.ttf

5. Finally create a FontLabel, which is just a subclass of UILabel:

-(void) displayMyLabel {
FontLabel * myLabel = [[FontLabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 30, 50, 30)
fontName:@”FuturaBoldBT” pointSize:26.0f];
myLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;
myLabell.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor;
[myLabel setBackgroundColor:UIColor.clearColor];
[self addSubview:myLabel];
}
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I was recently adding some code to check for the availability of the network, so I can display an error to the user if unavailable.

I looked at the SeismicXML application and borrowed the following code:

// Use the SystemConfiguration framework to determine if the host that provides
// the RSS feed is available.
– (BOOL)isDataSourceAvailable
{
static BOOL checkNetwork = YES;
if (checkNetwork) {
// Since checking the reachability of a host can be expensive,
// cache the result and perform the reachability check once.
checkNetwork = NO;

Boolean success;
const char *host_name = “earthquake.usgs.gov”;
//const char *host_name = “localhost”;

SCNetworkReachabilityRef reachability =
SCNetworkReachabilityCreateWithName(NULL, host_name);
SCNetworkReachabilityFlags flags;
success = SCNetworkReachabilityGetFlags(reachability, &flags);
_isDataSourceAvailable = success &&
(flags & kSCNetworkFlagsReachable) &&
!(flags & kSCNetworkFlagsConnectionRequired);
CFRelease(reachability);
}
return _isDataSourceAvailable;
}

I wouldn’t compile unless I added the following import:

#import

After adding this I still go 2 more errors, but these were a bit more cryptic.

 Undefined symbols:
"_SCNetworkReachabilityCreateWithName", referenced from:
-[TheElementsAppDelegate isDataSourceAvailable] in TheElementsAppDelegate.o
"_SCNetworkReachabilityGetFlags", referenced from:
-[TheElementsAppDelegate isDataSourceAvailable] in TheElementsAppDelegate.o
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

After some digging around I realized that I was missing the SystemConfiguration.framework framework.

So here is what I did to add it.
1. I right click on “Frameworks” and choose: Add < Existing Framework

2. Browsed to the file: /System/Library/Frameworks/SystemConfiguration.framework

3. Rebuilt the project and my error was gone.