“Would you agree to fly in a brand-new plane that has never been tested? For many of us, the answer would be an emphatic no.… Read More »12 Best Beta Test Management Software For 2021 by CX Lead
Sometimes you want to open your app from another app. Or maybe the user taps on a URL on their device and you want it… Read More »Opening an iOS app via URL
New SwiftUI book from Apress for App development
Check out the playlist for the “5-Minute iOS Tips” I did for Accelebrate – there will be 4 in the series as of now. The related… Read More »5-Minute iOS Tips Video Series
Like many others, when I upgraded to Xcode 10, I wasn’t a fan of the missing Object Library. Once I found it, I knew I’d… Read More »Xcode 10 – How to Keep the Object Library Open
I recently developed this course for Linkedin Learning/Lynda.com to help people getting started with AWS. The idea is that there are many courses and certifications… Read More »Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Developers (Online Course)
We often need to add a slide in menu to a UIViewController. It’s no easy task in Interface Builder. Here’s how to make one… Read More »Slide in Menu as an UIViewController Extension
The all important question everyone has to ask is: how much will it cost? App development cost varies based on several factors and can range… Read More »App Development Cost – What Does it Cost?
I started getting the Xcode 7 Invalid Bundle error: ERROR ITMS-90474: “Bundle Invalid. iPad Multitasking support requires there orientations:’UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait,UIIinterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown,UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft,UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight’. Found ‘UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait’ in bundle. Xcode 7… Read More »Xcode 7 Invalid Bundle – iPad Multitasking Required Orientations
From MacRumors.com… There are quite a few major changes in iOS 9, like split-screen multitasking for the iPad, improvements to search and Siri, under-the-hood performance… Read More »iOS 9 Hidden Features: Settings Search, Selfie Folder, Home Sharing for Music, Go Back to App, and More – Mac Rumors
There were several new big announcements at the apple ‘hey siri’ events. iPhone 6s with 3D touch, tvOS for the new Apple TV and… Read More »Mac Rumors: ‘Hey Siri’ Event Roundup: iPhone 6s, iPad Pro, New Apple TV and More
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a new report that suggests next year’s “iPhone 7” could be Apple’s thinnest smartphone yet, with a thickness… Read More »Mac Rumors: ‘iPhone 7’ Thickness Likely to Approach iPod Touch
I’ve been seeing the libGPUSupportMercury.dylib iOS Crash and having a tough time nailing it down. I still can’t reproduce it predictably. However, I believe I… Read More »libGPUSupportMercury.dylib iOS Crash
Testing location functionality can be tough. Significant location change updates especially so. Here’s how to test SLC in the simulator… Test Significant Location Change You… Read More »Test Significant Location Change – iOS Simulator
Drew Baye had a great idea for an app to be able to calculate the resistance on an Ivanko Super Gripper. He had the data… Read More »Invanko Super Gripper App – Resistance Calculator
So when Mavericks came out, Messages synced across my iOS devices and OS X/MacBook. Then it stopped. I long waited for the day when Yosemite and… Read More »Messages Not Syncing in Yosemite OSX MacBookPro – FIX!
I recently started using Parse.com’ crash reporting and wanted to pay better attention to my build numbers in Xcode. I found this post on… Read More »Xcode 6 Auto-Increment Build Number Script
I needed to simulate slow network speeds for the iOS simulator. There’s a pretty easy provided way to do it. Click on Xcode>Open Developer Tool>More… Read More »iOS/iPhone Simulator – Simulate Slow Network Speeds
I kept getting an error like this… NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=133020 “The operation couldn’t be completed. (Cocoa error 133020.)” UserInfo=0x1115a6d0 {conflictList=( “NSMergeConflict (0x1115a670) for NSManagedObject I chased… Read More »NSMergeConflict CoreData Crash in iOS 7
In addition to a larger display, the iPhone 6 is expected to launch this September with a thinner design, a faster processor, and an improved… Read More »Only the 5.5-Inch iPhone 6 May Offer 128GB Models – Mac Rumors
There’s a lot to digest from the WWDC Keynote. Many new SDK frameworks, updates, UI changes, features,… so much… but no new hardware. Interesting. I… Read More »WWDC Keynote Summary
Apple recently released iOS 7.1 w/ some new/updated features. I like the minor UI changes they made to make things sharper, but there’s a few… Read More »iOS 7.1 Features: Top 5 new iOS 7.1 features
ContractIQ has an interesting infogram up on their dashboard today. It talks about costs by angencies, expectations of rising in costs, cross-platform thoughts, etc. It’s… Read More »ContractIQ Infrogram about App Costs
In some cases, you want to disable ARC in your project just for one or some subset of files. Usually this is the case, for… Read More »Disable ARC Compilation in Xcode for an iOS/Objective-C File
Brainwash Inc. is featured today on ContractIQ. They are showcasing the ITGO app developed for interval training using the user’s fast/slow playlists for the various… Read More »Featured on ContractIQ
Sometimes it’s necessary to change the font on an app and you don’t want to go into Interface Builder and manually change them all. Ug.… Read More »Changing iOS Font on All Widgets (UILabel, UIButton, etc.)
Sometimes I can’t help but notice how much blue Apple tends to use in their icons. Both OSX and iOS. I wonder if it’s b/c… Read More »Apple Loves Blue???
I had a unique problem today – if a page opens a new ‘window’ in a UIWebView and then calls window.close to close it,… Read More »iOS UIWebView Handle window.open/window.close PopUp Page
Apple – iPhone 5s – Tips and Tricks. Many people have been confused by the changes in iOS 7. Apple has published a list… Read More »Apple – iPhone 5s – Tips and Tricks
I found my popover’s going to iOS 7 didn’t look so great. I searched around and posts were pointing to subclassing the abstract UIPopoverBackgroundView class.… Read More »UIPopoverBackgroundView
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably received the email from Apple saying your iCloud storage is almost full BUT you can’t see what it taking up all the space. Hopefully this will help…
Read More »iCloud Filling up? Delete Old iMessages/SMS Attachments
I decided to add ChartBoost to a Unity game I was developing. I went to chartboost.com and got the unity plugin. The doco there was pretty good, but seemed to end w/ “These scripts demonstrate how to hook up exposed methods” and I wasn’t sure where to go.
Read More »Adding ChartBoost to an iOS Unity3d Project
Here’s a quick/easy demo project using OpenCV to detect a circle or smile (two different view controllers): https://github.com/lukagabric/iOS-OpenCV
Read More »OpenCV Detect Circle and Smile
The WWDC videos are being released here: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/videos/ Enjoy!
Sometimes it’s necessary to restart an app, but if you just run it again, it may still be in memory.
To remove it from executing/running memory, follow these steps…
Read More »Removing an App from Multi-Task Memory
No In-App Purchases – one price you get it. A simple tool to track your 400 rep workout. Randomly generated 4-move workout. 10 reps, 10… Read More »Fit4Today – Fitness App
As a moderator at RayWenderlich.com, I’ve started answering some users’ questions. Here’s one of the first I was able to answer for someone that others… Read More »Retrieving the File Name from Photo Album Images (iOS)
I have several domains and a) want to check them all from 1 account and b) want to be able to write from them using that one account.
This isn’t tough w/ web clients (I use Yahoo!) but for my iOS devices it has the added challenge that I want to use the native client. That way if an app kicks me to the email UI, I can carry on as usual.
So the other emails are just forwards to my Yahoo account. No problem. But to have them as options to write from is different.
I found a couple sites that helped me figure out how to do this…
Read More »iOS Email Aliases for From field
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Apple docs on Dynamic Method Resolution UPDATED FOR ARC BELOW. If you want a class to respond to a given method w/o knowing what that… Read More »iOS Dynamic Method Resolution
Some great content, quotes and charts in this article comparing analytics from iOS vs Android… For every 10 apps that developers build, roughly 7 are… Read More »App Developers Signal Apple Allegiance Ahead of WWDC and Google I/O
Todo4Today‘s new email feature let’s you send an email to create a todo item in your todo list. Once you have the app and purchase… Read More »Todo List Item via Email – Todo4Today iOS App
Tom Harrington post on CoreData/JSON conversion… You may know me as @atomicbird on Twitter. Just a few days ago my book Core Data for iOS:… Read More »Saving JSON to Core Data | Cocoa Is My Girlfriend
A couple of good, similar posts about getting your Core Data database in iCloud for apps… iOS How-To : Using Core Data with iCloud –… Read More »iPhone Development: Using Core Data with iCloud
This was tricky… I kept getting: iPhone/iPod Touch: Icon.png: icon dimensions (0 x 0) don’t meet the size requirements. The icon file must be 57×57… Read More »MacOSX 10.7.3 Update Breaks iOS App Validation
If your app plays music, you may want to handle the remove audio control events. And you might also want to display applicable info like… Read More »How to Make an App: iPhone Lock Screen Image
Allowing your app to receive remote audio control events is pretty easy. The gist of it is to just tell the OS you’re interested in… Read More »How to Build an App: iOS Background Audio Controls
I added a new category called ‘how to build an app‘ and this is a great post for it. It’s certainly not the very… Read More »How to Build an App: TestFlight – Testing Apps by Users
UIImage imageNamed is nice that it caches, but w/o being able to control when it clears the cache, it can be trouble. However, as this… Read More »imageNamed is evil « Under The Bridge
[myTableView setBackgroundView:nil]; via UITableView backgroundColor always gray on iPad – Stack Overflow. I ran into this problem where the view backgrounds were always gray. Confusing!… Read More »UITableView backgroundColor always gray on iPad – Stack Overflow