iOS7 Series –Custom Transitions There is a hierarchy of actors you need to visualize here. It goes a little something like: A TransitioningDelegate An AnimatedTransitioning A ContextTransitioning The VC you start out with and that will call the transition will adopt the first protocol, the TransitioningDelegate Protocol. The purpose of doing so is to obtain the authority to manage the entire transition process. You will then create a Transitioning class which we can call the Transition Manager. This class will adopt the AnimatedTransitioning protocol. The purpose of this protocol is to animate the transition. The Transition Manager class receives all the necessary information from the Transitioning Context (a protocol adopted… Read More
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I keep reading articles or watching videos of iOS businesses who made it and they share their wisdom of the Common 10 Mistakes iOS developers make. Guess what? Most of those mistakes, although they are worded as developer concepts, they are really business concepts. Common Mistakes: Don’t need a marketing guy. Don’t need a business guy. Don’t need a business perspective. Usually worded as, I thought I would get rich quick, or Im looking for a one hit wonder, or Im a great programmer and I thought that was enough. Well guess what, if you are going to sell something and make more than 99c for it, its gonna need… Read More
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Fetching data from an iOS app – The new NSURLSession API
Ok, this is gonna be short, I promise! 🙂 Do you remember those apps you’ve got stored away or the ones you are working on that fetch data from the web with a NSURLConnection? Time to update them, here’s how. Basically you have a method that calls a web fetch and is somehow signaled to use that received data to refresh a UI. If you used NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest:, you have the issue that it blocks the main thread. It does carry out requests asynchronously from each other, but each request does indeed block the main thread since it is carried out in the main queue. Alternatively, you can use a… Read More
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