Almost all apps contain some kind of data requests. Printing data requests could sometimes be handy for debugging purposes. This can be done fairly easy by using a custom URLProtocol. Creating a custom URLProtocol A custom URLProtocol is needed to print out the data requests. A custom implementation of URLProtocol including the canInit method is …
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Controlling Progress children by adding remove
Controlling Progress children by default makes it only easy to add children to a Progress instance, but removing is not possible by default. This could have been useful when you want to use a single Progress instance which can have different children over time. Using a custom class MutableProgress makes this possible. Controlling Progress children …
Share Extension UI Tests written in Swift
UI Tests are a great tool to validate your application. It is easy to create them for your main application, but it might be harder to create a UI test for your share extension. This can be just as easy as your main application with some simple steps. UI Test steps A UI test for …
Updating to Swift 4.1
Swift 4.1 is released on the 29th of March and will be shipped with Xcode 9.3. Although it’s a minor language release, it did bring some improvements. How to get started? First of all, Swift 4.1 is source compatible with Swift 4.0. So no need to rush! Before you start, get yourself up to date …
Swift 3 conversion and refactoring your project
A few weeks ago Apple announced the deprecation of Swift 2.3 starting with the release of Xcode 8.2. Reason enough to start the Swift 3 conversion of the Videoland iOS app. As the project contains many files, this couldn’t be less than challenging. The project was setup in the end of 2014, starting in Swift …
Rich notifications with images or GIFs with iOS 10
Rich notifications with iOS 10 brings us some nice new features to add to our apps. It’s possible to create rich views within the detail view of a notification, which you can create with so called Notification Content Extensions. To simply display an image or GIF you can use the Notification Service Extension which I …
Rebuilding the new Buienradar iOS App
The new Buienradar App is now available for download in the App Store here. The last few months I’ve been very busy building the new Buienradar iOS app. It was build before entirely in Objective-C, had some redesigns and the codebase was getting full of extensions on top of the base application. It was time …