fastlane is a very popular automation tool for developers. It can do so much for you: manage code signing, create screenshots, publish betas, upload release builds to iTunes Connect, manage your app’s metadata… Over the last couple of weeks we’ve talked about using match for code signing and using snapshot… Read more »
There’s a lot of boring tasks that you can automate in your development career. Taking screenshots is definitely one of them. fastlane comes bundled with a nice little tool that makes this very simple. In this article we’ll go over setting up your project to use fastlane snapshot. Before You… Read more »
If you ever worked in a team you know how messy certificates and provisioning profiles can get. Lately Xcode mitigates most of these age-old problems, but there’s one little tool that brings a whole different concept to managing certificates and provisioning profiles. In this article we’ll learn how to manage… Read more »
Keyboard handling code is something you’ll use and reuse across your project. There’s a very simple way that you can do this using interface builder objects. It’s as simple as dropping an object and connecting two outlets. In this short post we’ll create a class that will handle the keyboard… Read more »
You probably know what Google Drive is, just in case you don’t… it’s a cloud bases storage. In this article we’ll walk you through the setup procedure and cover some basic scenarios on how to use Google Drive in your apps. Let’s get started. Pre-flight Before you can use Google… Read more »
URLSession has a great feature where you can download files while your app is in the background. In this article we’ll go over setting up your app to use this great little feature. We’ll focus on downloading files, but you can use the same principles for uploading files as well…. Read more »
Last week we talked about Realm Database and how to get started with it. This week we’ll dive in a bit deeper in Realm. Realm has a nice feature called ‘Synced Realms’. It’s a database that’s hosted in the cloud and in this article we’ll see how to set it… Read more »
Realm is an alternative to Core Data on iOS and it’s also cross-platform. In this blog post we’ll setup Realm Database for our little demo project and we’ll check out some basic features that you’ll end up using. Realm Database Sooner or later you’ll find yourself in a position where… Read more »
TwitterKit offers you loads of functionality: login, sharing, viewing your timeline… In this post we’ll learn how to setup your twitter app and start using TwitterKit. We’ll cover some basic use cases that you’ll most likely use, like login and sharing. So, let’s get going. Setting Up Your Twitter App… Read more »
If you have a free app and you’re thinking of ways you can monetize that app one of the most common ways is to put some ads in the app. In this article we’ll quickly go over how to set up AdMob and implement the three ad types they offer…… Read more »