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Ask any iOS developer about DateFormatter and one of the first things you will hear is that creating a DateFormatter instance is an expensive operation. The second thing you will hear is that after creating one you need to cache it. In this post I want to look at how …
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Networking is central to how most apps add value to their users which is why significant effort has been put into creating an easy to use networking layer by both Apple and the open-source community. When iOS was first released, NSURLConnection was the native networking suite it shipped with. However …
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In the past iOS was always about living in the moment - totally focused on whatever the user was attempting to do. This offered the user a great experience however as app developers it restricted what we could do because as soon as the app went into the background, iOS …
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GitHub is a wonderful development resource that is now widely used within the iOS community. I use it to host my personal projects and increasingly the clients that I work with also use it. For a number of years, I used the one account across both personal and client projects …
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Recently, I've been experiencing the iOS equivalent of Leonardo Dicaprio's Inception - putting a collection view inside a collection view. When exploring possible solutions I stumbled upon a very informative article by Soroush Khanlou and his suggestion that the best way to implement a collection view inside a collection view …
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Core Data and Unit Testing haven't always been the best of friends. Like two members of the same friend group who don't really know each other but really like their UIKit friend, Core Data and Unit Testing have in fact discovered that they have a lot in common and have …