Description There are two main recommended paths toward continuous integration for iOS. The path supported and recommended by Apple relies on Xcode server, which allows you to configure and run ‘Bots’ to execute tests within your project, however at the time of writing (Xcode 10) these integration bots do not support pushing the builds to
Apple unveiled some cool new stuff today at their annual phone centric unveiling event. Here is a quick overview! The iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs max – 5.8 inch screen size. Bigger than the 6+ with a smaller form factor. – the Max offers a 6.5 inch screen (1 inch larger than 6s) with same
In a recent production app, I came across one of the most hard to track down iOS Crash bugs I have encountered. It took quite a bit of tracking down and there was nothing available online to help. Hopefully if anyone else out there hits this some day, this will save them some time. The
Say you want to show a little popover menu on your view controller when a user presses a button. On iPad, this is pretty easy using a popover presentation, but this same thing isn’t available on iPhone devices. Trying to do that just using a container view controller or a custom view overlaid in our
I’ve been tasked with some pretty challenging requirements for an android activity. It needs to: – have sections with headers like an iOS UITableView. – have horizontal and vertical scrolling at once – have a swipe to refresh functionality, allowing you to swipe down to refresh the data. Now, perhaps this may be easier to
Tons of new stuff got announced today at Apple’s Media event. It was a big one! Here is a recap: iPhone 7 has 10 new feature enhancements: 1- New Design: jet black finish. High Gloss, seamless surface… also a matte black- gold, silver, rose gold. 2- Home Button— redesign. Force sensitive, taptic engine, can be
So you want to have a view controller with some content, where the content height may be larger than the screen size? Naturally, you want to be able to put this into a UIScrollView and give the user the ability to scroll through this content if it is too large. This is a task I
Having brought many apps live over the years, I’ve had to deal with a significant number of app store rejections. I used to wince when I would see “Cupertino CA” pop up on my cell phone’s caller ID. I’d answer and hear the ever familiar voice, “Hey, It’s Richard from Apple.” As nice as Richard
Adding an oAuth implementation into your ReSTful API is an essential method of authenticating requests between your client apps and your API. Adding a ReSTful API for our iOS and Android apps allows us to centralize data to a cloud server, allowing us to share share amongst different users, clients and even platforms. By implementing
https://github.com/qonceptual/QJsonable QJsonable Summary In our ReSTful API world, we are constantly passing JSON objects to our api and receiving them back. Constantly serializating these objects to and from json string and dictionaries can be cumbersome and can make your model classes and data services start to fill up with boiler plate parsing code. To solve