Tag Archives: iOS

Why Use React Native for Mobile App Development?

   For a business that is looking to make a presence on mobile, the ultimate goal that all of them — irrespective of what category they belong to — plans to achieve is reach masses at low development cost and fast launch time. The trio is a sweet spot that all businesses long to achieve. A sweet spot that Continue Reading »

Mobile Automation with Appium: A Detailed Guide for Testing

Mobile Automation with Appium: A Detailed Guide for Testing

In today’s mobile-first world, ensuring the quality and reliability of mobile applications is crucial. Appium has emerged as a powerful tool for automating mobile app testing across iOS and Android platforms. This guide will walk you through the essentials of mobile automation with Appium, helping you streamline your testing process and improve app quality. What Continue Reading »

Dark Mode in iOS

Dark Mode was revealed at WWDC 2019 and debuted with iOS 13. It gives iOS a darker look. The appearance of Dark Mode is determined by trait collections. When a user modifies the system’s look, the system requests that all windows and views redraw their contents. Without any additional logic, UIKit controls support it out Continue Reading »

Fire base Environment

Multiple Firebase Environments(GoogleService-Info.plist) in iOS

A common scenario in application development is to have different environments, such as Debug, QA, Production… can be resolve via Multiple Firebase Environments. Requirement of having Multiple Firebase Environments : While your app is in development mode, or while it is being tested by the QA department, some “data pollution” could reach Firebase servers. Imagine your application is going to use Firebase Continue Reading »

What’s New in iOS 11

Apple has announced iOS 11 in WWDC 2017. Like every conference, Apple revealed new iPhones with new iOS features. All of us stuck on iPhone only with its retina scan. There is a chaos for iPhone X Design. In spite of this, we’ll try to cover major changes in iOS 11 which have overshadowed new Continue Reading »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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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 »

InnovationM Lazy Loading and Memory Management of Images in UITableView in iOS

Lazy Loading and Memory Management of Images in UITableView in iOS

Introduction to Lazy Loading What is lazy loading? A little introduction of lazy loading is  it is a design pattern to defer the initialization of an object until the point at which it is needed. In simple words create objects when it is needed. Problems to Tackle Before talking about lazy loading of images, I want Continue Reading »

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Convert iPhone application to Universal application (iPhone and iPad Both)

iOS Application can be developed for iPhone or iPad or Both (iPhone and iPad). Application that is developed for both is called Universal application. If you have developed application for iPhone only then it will run on iPad but will not run on full screen of iPad. To make this application cover the whole screen you Continue Reading »

iOS – Best Architecture, Design and Coding Practices

iOS – Best Architecture, Design and Coding Practices

We have identified some of the best practices that we need to follow while working on architecture, design and development of iOS applications. We will keep on adding more and more to it. Stay tuned… Best Coding Practices Image files naming convention There are four types of devices that we need to support while developing Continue Reading »

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Secure Web Service integration in Mobile Apps

Web services have gained lot of importance lately. From mobile apps perspective, native apps (Andorid, iOS, Windows Phone, etc.) or HTML5/JS Frameworks like Sencha Touch need to talk to the web services to get the data and push the data. How do we ensure that request sent to web services is from authenticated client? For Continue Reading »

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Support for applications running in background in iOS

When application in iOS goes in background (Say, Home button is pressed) then application will not run. In iOS, only specific application types are allowed to run in the background. Let us see them in more detail. Application Types Support for Background in iOS There are 7 types of such applications. See the details below:   Continue Reading »

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Testing – Facebook Integration in iOS and Android

Testing – Facebook integration of the app – requires different combinations of situations and cases to be tested. Ex Login to Application using Facebook when Facebook app is installed on the device. In another case, Facebook app is not installed. Let us go through some of them …. iOS – Login Test Scenarios  1. User Continue Reading »

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Dropbox Integration in iOS

In this tutorial we will learn – how to integrate Dropbox with iOS applications. Let us take an example of iOS application. We will be talking about the following: 1. Uploading the files from iOS App to Dropbox 2. Downloading files from Dropbox 3. Browsing the Folder / Files structure of Dropbox. There are mainly Continue Reading »

Facebook Integration in iOS

Facebook Integration in iOS

You have developed an application in iOS and now you want to make it “Social”. Facebook and Twitter are the two most popular social networking sites. In this tutorial, we will learn how to integrate Facebook in your application.  1. Register an Application With Facebook To register an iOS application with Facebook, go to http://developer.facebook.com and Continue Reading »