Reading Time: < 1 minute Apple : the Swift language (unveiled in WWDC on June 2, 2014) Tutorials Developing iOS Apps Using Swift Tutorial Part 1 (Jameson Quave) learnswift.tips References and reviews Matt Galloway : Swift Language Highlights: An Objective-C Developer’s Perspective (raywenderlich.com) The Verge : The Swift effect: Apple’s new programming language means way more iPhone developers and apps
Reading Time: 2 minutes Avoid the Payload validation error To shorten the review waiting time. I noticed this recently in my own apps update. The one without warning has much shorter review waiting time. The rationale is App thinks the app may use private API in this scenario (see this explanation on stackoverflow). From personal experience the one with
Reading Time: 2 minutes Should I put iAd to my iOS apps on iTunes App store? Should I put the google adsense back to my blog? The reason I am asking this question is: while personally I really don’t like the ads on Facebook, LinkedIn, or the iAds on some apps like Echofon, I understand this is a meaningful
Reading Time: 3 minutes Or am I? 🙂 I think I’m a pragmatic programmer. Note this is also a book title I read, by pragmatic (note not agile), I think it’s about balance between software quality, effort and delivery date. It’s also about releasing software with known risks (including bugs) 🙁 I thought about this as I started practicing
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have listened to Paul Kemp’s the App Guy Podcast (TAGP) recently, got to know this from @raywenderlich via twitter. Paul’s podcast is not purely technical, it’s more about entrepreneurship, and start own business. It’s an interview format. Paul usually asks indie developers (iOS, web, etc.) questions on how they get started, any pain points
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 03-05-2019, almost 5 years since original post) I did something similar for iPhone X, XR, XS screen size. Basically I stretched the Default-568h@2x.png to Default-375w-812h@3x.png and added that in the “launch image”. I also noticed the some of the nib files have the wrong constraints for label, textfield and button. I made some simple
Reading Time: < 1 minute I was listening/reading two stories on the college debt (source: NPR) and the financial well beings of millennials (source: fortune/cnn), which lead to to add some new features to the collegeFund app. The app was essentially a college savings (529 plan) and I did not thought too much of this college debt problem at the
Reading Time: < 1 minute There was not an easy way to show the number only keypad on iPad. I used to create a custom number input pad like below. I loosely followed raywenderlich.com custom input tutorial. Email me at minjie Dot xu At gmail Dot com if you need the source code. And please ask nicely.
Reading Time: < 1 minute I used to watch NBA game quite a bit. I noticed in many teams, there are usually a go-to-guy who attempts the last shot, in close game. This is especially true in important games, such as playoff or elimination games. We all know Kobe Bryan and Lebron James are among those. Is there such a
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