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The New Apple TV SDK | Richter's Rants
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Reflections on the iOS Development Community. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. The New Apple TV SDK. June 19, 2013. I have written a follow up piece, Apple’s Game Console will Change the Living Room. Framework. This move is so brilliant that it could completely revolutionize home gaming. Apple has also done something that should be keeping Microsoft and Sony up at night. Instead of building a bigger, faster, badder AppleTV they are offloading the processing power to iDevices. T...While...
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Xcode Bots ⋅ ObjDev
http://objdev.com/2014/01/xcode-bot
With Xcode 5 and Mavericks Server, Apple introduce a fully integrated build server that works with Xcode 5 projects to automatically create iOS and Mac builds. This means that you can have a bot automatically create a build for you whenever you push to a special remote repository branch. This week, we'll take a look at how to create an Xcode Bot to do your bidding. Adding Repos to the Server. Once you've added the remote repository, it will appear in the list of remotes, and we can begin creating the Bot.
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Block Syntax in Objective-C 2.0 ⋅ ObjDev
http://objdev.com/2014/01/block-syntax-objective-c
Block Syntax in Objective-C 2.0. Blocks are everywhere since their implementation in Objective-C 2.0. More and more frameworks, and even our own class and framework implementations are taking advantage of these great ways of passing code around in various forms. If you're asking what a block is, then I suggest taking a look at the Blocks Programming Topics. Documentation that Apple provides on their site. Using Blocks as Local Variables. Using Blocks as a Property. Using Blocks as a Method Parameter.
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Syncing Key-Value Pairs with NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore ⋅ ObjDev
http://objdev.com/2013/12/nsubiquitouskeyvaluestore-using
Syncing Key-Value Pairs with NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore. It may have a long name, but. Can be a powerful, yet easy way, to get key-value pairs synced across multiple devices using iCloud. Typically, developers use. To save bits of information that may be accessed infrequently, such as saved game state, or other user preferences. Almost anything can be stored in. Including custom class objects that you create (assuming they are. Works extremely similar to. The thing to remember is that. Leave this storage ...
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Formatting NSString for Display Using NSMutableArray ⋅ ObjDev
http://objdev.com/2013/12/nsarray-nsstring-concatenation
Formatting NSString for Display Using NSMutableArray. Sometimes you need to concatenate multiple strings together for display purposes. You don't know if you have strings that are nil, or if you have valid strings for display, so what do you do? Here's one way that I've seen folks concatenate strings:. That looks pretty good. or, not. This is a particularly bad way to concatenate strings, because the elements that are nil can be added to the final string as "(null)". Pretty bad if you are planning on...
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Update: OS X Application Testing Mindmap ⋅ ObjDev
http://objdev.com/2013/11/Update-OS-X-Application-Testing-Mindmap
Update: OS X Application Testing Mindmap. There were a few people who read the post that I did on the OS X Testing Mindmap. And wanted me to post the original files relating to the mindmap so they could customize and tweak them to their liking. I would like to announce today that I have posted the original mindmap files both on GitHub and available for static download here. You can view the original files in many different formats, including:. View the files on GitHub here.
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Tips and Resources for beginning iOS Development ⋅ ObjDev
http://objdev.com/2014/02/beginning-ios-development
Tips and Resources for beginning iOS Development. IOS and Mac development have become very popular over the past few years as the hardware that runs the apps has gained much attraction. With the flood of iOS developers coming into the ecosystem, some may wonder, "Where do I begin? While there are a lot of resources now available to newer iOS developers, in this post, I wanted to sift through and deliver only the best tips and resources for new devs. The Apple Developer documentation. Site should always b...
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Using -endEditing to dismiss the keyboard ⋅ ObjDev
http://objdev.com/2013/11/Dismissing-iOS-Keyboard-Self-View-EndEditing
Using -endEditing to dismiss the keyboard. There are a lot of places where you may want to dismiss the on-screen iOS keyboard, but you may not always have a pointer to the UITextField that is currently the first responder. This can happen when dealing with a lot of UITextFields in a UITableView implementation, or any other myriad of possibilities. Most folks choose to dismiss the keyboard by calling. So, what's the. Call, then the force parameter is set to YES and the text field will not be asked to resi...
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OS X Application Testing Mindmap ⋅ ObjDev
http://objdev.com/2013/10/OS-X-Application-Testing-Mindmap
OS X Application Testing Mindmap. Nick Arnott created a mindmap of iOS application testing. Which I have been using during QA to ensure that I don't miss anything important. Being able to have a visual idea of what you need to test can be very important during the testing process. Some of the functionality that OS X testing includes that is different from iOS is:. Don't let the icon fool you, this app is great for network testing). You can download the OS X testing mindmap from here.
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Apple and Mac News. Apple CEO Tim Cook gets an A-Minus from Barron's. Why Apple Watch 2 doesn't need its own cellular capability. I want my iPhone on my Mac’s screen. With next U.S. President, Apple's cash may soon be on its way home. Apple's stock has gotten a bad rap under Tim Cook. Latest Joy of Tech. Philips Hue announces new Motion Sensor automation accessory and updates to its color-changing bulbs. Apple Watch drops below $200 in the US ahead of Apple Watch 2 unveiling. UK carrier EE offering six m...
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