Recently I came across the situation that I needed to support a custom background for a UINavigationBar in an app that had to work for both iOS 4 and iOS 5. After some Googling I came up with this approach.

I finally got round to making this into a category. It's a simple function for turning a dictionary into a query string, ready for appending to the end of a URL.

[sourcecode language="objc"]
// NSDictionary+QueryStringBuilder.h

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface NSDictionary...

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