Every day, I’m building and working with applications that connect to remote data sources whether they’re files, feeds, databases, etc. I also do a lot of work daily involving video streaming to iOS devices. If you’ve had to build any sort of connected iOS app, I am pretty sure you’ve cursed at the iOS gods …
Continue Reading…Tutorial: Using Charles Proxy With Your iOS Development And HTTP Debugging
In this article, I wanted to document what I discovered in my search for an answer to the question: Is it an iOS best practice to avoid using Storyboards/XIBs and instead, create your views programmatically ? As a disclaimer, I personally tend to avoid using storyboards and XIBs simply because I feel that I’m more …
Continue Reading…XCode: Using Storyboards and Xibs Versus Creating Views Programmatically
by Chris Ching Last updated October 15, 2018 Oct 15, 2018: Updated by Adrien Villez for the latest version of Swift and Xcode! Custom fonts can make all the difference in the world when you’re trying to convey a specific user experience. Luckily, it’s pretty easy to add your own fonts in your iOS app …
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Hello! In this post, I’m going to show you guys how to use a remote config file for your iPhone/iPad application. In my experience, this isn’t something the client asks for or thinks about during requirements gathering (unless they have a technical manager on their side). However, even though it isn’t one of those things …
Continue Reading…Tutorial: How To Use A Remote Configuration File For Your iOS App
Most of the apps you’ll build will have to fetch some sort of data through the network whether it’s as simple as high scores, a configuration file or more complex data such as a large movie catalogue. While there are a few ways you could fetch data in your iPhone application and more than a …
Continue Reading…Tutorial: How To Use iOS NSURLConnection By Example
If you have worked with the NSURLConnection class in iOS, then you may have come across this behaviour before; we were using the NSURLConnection class to download a remote XML file to check if there was an update for our app. When we changed the XML file on the remote server to indicate there was …