Category Archives: iOS

JSONExport: JSON to Model

JSONExport:  Now you do not need to Understand your JSON Structure and create your model manually. Here is a utility to convert your JSON into model to do that. You just need to paste your JSON in JSON field. First it will check it JSON is valid, then convert it into model. It will create different Continue Reading »

Beta App Testing Via TestFlight iOS

We need to distribute our App to some users for Beta App Testing. There are some tools available which can be used for this purpose like Diawi, Fabric etc. Apple provides TestFlight iOS for distribution of App to Beta testers. To take advantage of TestFlight, simply upload a beta build of your app, and use iTunes Connect to add Continue Reading »

Web Service Proxy with Charles

There are some scenarios where we can use Charles : Sometimes we need to change web service request parameters to check some scenarios in our App, For this we need to change these parameters in our App before sending request. So everytime we need to make changes in our App to test with different request Continue Reading »

Contacts Framework Vs AddressBook Swift 3.0

Contacts Framework Contacts Framework came up  with iOS 9.0 . This framework provide Swift and Objective-C API to access the user’s contact information. AddressBook Framework AddressBook Framework was used in iOS 8 and earlier for access user’s contact information . Through this blog you will get to understand working with Contacts and AddressBook Framework.  So before accessing the Continue Reading »

Play with Audio in Swift 3.0

Audio recording and playing is not a tough task in iOS but it takes time to understand and implement. There is a framework called AVFoundation which will help you to record sound. Steps To Record Sound: 1.  Import Framework AVFoundation:  To record and play audio first you need to import a framework AVFoundation. This framework will Continue Reading »

Apple Pay Integration in Swift 3.0

Almost half of today’s smartphone users will be using their phones and mobile wallets as their preferred method for payments and what preferred the most is security, privacy and reliability. Thus one of the largest mobile phones manufacturing company Apple inc. provides us such a wallet service which became far most popular since 2015 known Continue Reading »

Tailor: Clean and Organized Code

  I found this quote by James O. Coplien on Japanese workplace organization methodology called 5S Clean your workplace on daily basis completely or set cleaning frequency. Use cleaning as inspection. Prevent machinery and equipment deterioration. Keep workplace safe and easy to work. Keep workplace clean and pleasing to work in. Just like our organization, the codebase Continue Reading »

Alamofire

Alamofire: Alamofire is a HTTP networking based library for iOS and macOS. It is used to handle HTTP request and response. It is the wrapper class of URLSession. Before Alamofire: You need to prepare all request by yourself Task handling is complicated Multipart request and File downloading & uploading is complicated Image caching needs to done Continue Reading »

Keychain Handling in iOS

  What is Keychain Keychain is Apple’s way to manage password in the the device. Whether its Mac or iOS Device they use the same Keychain system tool back inside. It stores all your passwords for applications, sensitive information relating to website’s credentials and credit card/ debit card numbers. The main objective of existence is to secure Continue Reading »

Multiple Targets in iOS

  So, Why do you need Multiple Targets ? I’m giving you an assumption. You have a project where you are interacting with Database using REST APIs. Needless to say, you will have a Login Screen, or Registration Screen or say you have Forgot Password Screen. Then, you must be having two databases Development_Db (for Development Continue Reading »

Error Handling in Swift 3.0

Error Handling: Error is an issue or unexpected condition that may cause a program to not function properly. Error can be compile time or runtime. Error Handling is a process of identifying, catching and recovering  the error conditions. Here we are trying to handle server side error which occurred while sending request or receiving response. These errors maybe Continue Reading »

Push Notification Handling in Swift 3.0

Notifications: There are two types of notifications: Local Notification Remote Notification (Push Notification) Local notifications are scheduled and sent by an app and delivered on the same device without involvement of internet. Remote Notification (Push Notification): Push notifications are sent by remote server to the APNs and then it pushes the notification to the specific device. Continue Reading »

Application Data Caching in iOS

Cache is a prominent term which you’ve heard very often in Computing world. Alike, we have cache memory in our iPhones. As per the Wikipedia, description of cache is “Cache Memory is a fast and relatively small memory that is completely handled by the hardware, that stores the most recently used  main memory (RAM). The Continue Reading »

InnovationM Image Handling in iOS

Image Handling in iOS

When we use images in our application then we face different type of scenarios while handling the image. Before we go into the scenarios / situations of image handling in Application, let us understand the concept of UIImage and UIImageView. Concept of UIImage and UIImageView (container) UIImage – Bitmap with different formats Ex png and jpeg. Recommended Continue Reading »

Performance Analysis through Instruments tool for iOS App

  Instruments Tool Instruments is a powerful and flexible performance-analysis and testing tool. It is a  part of the Xcode tool set. Instruments tool is designed to help you profile your iOS applications in order to increase their performance and better utilization of resources. We will see How to  find hot-spots in code using Time Continue Reading »

View Controller Life Cycle in iOS

UIViewController– A view controller manages a set of views and makes your app’s user interface. It coordinates with model objects and other controller objects. Basically, it plays a combine role for both view objects and controller objects. Each view controller shows it’s own views to display the app content. The views are automatically loaded when Continue Reading »