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iOS: You’re Doing Settings Wrong

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Currently learning. Swift! IOS: You’re Doing Settings Wrong. July 8th, 2015. One of the apparently less known features for iOS 8 and above is the ability to deep link the user into Settings. Where they can enable their Location, Notifications, Contacts, Camera, Calendar, HealthKit, etc for your app as needed. So I’m writing this post as a frustrated user hoping that more iOS developers will just deep link directly to settings, especially since it’s so easy! If let appSettings = NSURL(string: UIApplicatio...

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Let It Go: Late Initialization of Let in Swift

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Currently learning. Swift! Let It Go: Late Initialization of Let in Swift. August 9th, 2015. One of the BIG improvements that came in Swift 1.2 was the ability to initialize let a little bit later. According to the Swift blog. Constants are now more powerful and consistent. The new rule is that a. Constant must be initialized before use (like a. And that it may only be initialized, not reassigned or mutated after initialization. This enables patterns like:. This week, @allonsykraken. Let cell: UITableVie...

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iOS: The One Weird Trick For Testing View Controllers in Swift

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Currently learning. Swift! IOS: The One Weird Trick For Testing View Controllers in Swift. August 2nd, 2015. I’ve been testing View Controllers in Swift for the past year, but for some reason, last week all my tests would just randomly start failing due to some type of timer / race condition issues. Turns out, I was setting up my View Controller tests incorrectly:. Import UIKit import XCTest @testable import MyProject class ViewControllerTests: XCTestCase { var viewController: ViewController! Go ahead an...

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Swift 2.0: Why Guard is Better than If

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Currently learning. Swift! Swift 2.0: Why Guard is Better than If. July 16th, 2015. Swift 2.0 comes with the excitement of the. Statement. But looks like there’s still confusion as to why guard is AMAZING, especially compared to the simple if statement before Swift 2.0. It was nicely explained by you. bt i got stuck in 1 place that why gaurd is still better than plain if condition. Mdash; Deepak Mishra (@dm7026) July 13, 2015. That is a completely reasonable question. So why is. Better than just a plane.

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Swift: When the Functional Approach is NOT Right

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Currently learning. Swift! Swift: When the Functional Approach is NOT Right. July 24th, 2015. Yesterday, I spotted what I considered to be a big Swift code smell in the codebase. Var minionImages = [UIImage]() for i in 1.7 { if let minionImage = UIImage(named: "minionIcon- (i)") { minionImages.append(minionImage) } }. This immediately screamed out to me as a perfect opportunity to refactor into a functional solution! I get to do functional programming! Yes, I was that excited about it. Nil} map { $0!

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Swift: How To Name Your Extensions

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Currently learning. Swift! Swift: How To Name Your Extensions. July 26th, 2015. One of my favorite patterns in iOS programming with Swift is to create multiple extensions throughout my files to keep related methods together. For example, every time my ViewController conforms to a protocol, I keep the protocol methods together in an extension. Same goes for multiple private styling methods or private cell configuration methods in a table view, etc. Style navigation bar here. IMO this is weak. When you...

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Learning From The Best: Replicating The Secret iOS App Text Animation

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Currently learning. Swift! Learning From The Best: Replicating The Secret iOS App Text Animation. April 15th, 2014. One of the best ways of really learning iOS and / or any other programming language is to replicate what some of the best app developers do in their app. Ever since I downloaded Secret. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by their awesome text animation when a new secret loads:. Http:/ natashatherobot.com/wp-content/uploads/SecretAnimationShort.mp4. Here is how I made it work:. AttributedString ...

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CocoaPods: The Elegant Solution To Installing The Same Pod In Multiple Targets

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Currently learning. Swift! CocoaPods: The Elegant Solution To Installing The Same Pod In Multiple Targets. July 18th, 2015. One of the most exciting things about Xcode 7 is the ability to natively UI Test (thanks Apple! So of course that was my priority when I started a new Xcode 7 / Swift 2 project. I really enjoy using Quick. For my unit tests, so I wanted to use these libraries for my UI Testing as well. The Ugly But Works Solution. Podfile platform :ios, '9.0' use frameworks! So I went to straight to...

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Bored People Quit – Rands in Repose

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Their productivity is your productivity. You call on the motivation and retention police because you believe they can perform the legendary “diving save”. Whether it’s HR or a well-intentioned manager with a distinguished title, these people scurry impressively. Meetings that go long into the evening are instantly scheduled with the disenfranchised employee. Boredom is easier to fix than an absence of belief. My three techniques for detecting boredom:. Any noticeable change in daily routine. Even if you ...