thoughts on technical topics
This week, I ran into some unexpected problems with TestFlight while releasing an app to my testers for — you guessed it — testing! We had setup TestFlight for internal testing to do a first round of QA testing, and
In the last week, I’ve been updating an iOS application that I wrote roughly 5 years ago. A significant portion of the work has been porting the code to use the newer frameworks, and it’s been fairly tedious. I’ve learned
For the last several years, companies of all shapes & sizes have been building and maturing mobile development teams. Whether it’s native app or responsive web development, ramping up teams for mobile programming has become a priority for every modern
In order to support this post, I have published a demonstration project on Github. Feel free to clone it and follow along in this post. I recently posted about how to implement location tracking via iOS Location Services, and felt
If you do any mobile development, chances are pretty good that you’ll want to utilize location tracking. While Apple has a good bit of documentation on the topic, one thing is missing: pragmatic usage of location services. For instance, there’s
I can never remember the exact format to get TODOs to show up in the Xcode jump bar. And for some reason, I can never pick the right search terms to look it up. So here it is for my
Today’s iOS quirk is again related UITableViews. This time, it’s the background color. The Problem I’m basically creating a form in a UITableView, and there are several button-type elements like segmented controls (actually they’re fake segmented controls due to customization
Came across a scenario on an iOS app today that didn’t have a clear answer in a single place. I basically had to cobble together a solution for my problem, and wanted to document it here. The Problem I have
Besides having an app to submit, there are a few things that are imperative to remember when submitting an app to the Apple app store. Fortunately, Apple has documented a LOT of these things. Prepare the App Obviously, the first
When someone asks me, “should we go native or mobile web for our mobile app?” I immediately have one question: what type of interaction will your users have with your app? Will they be inputting their data, taking pictures, or