When creating a UIViewController subclass, e.g. in a framework, which you require to support being created from both storyboards and code, it is useful to implement initialisation which works for both. That can be achieved with a common init routine as follows: – (instancetype)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil{ self = [super Read more…
By default, screenshots save to the Desktop which isn’t ideal. With this terminal command you can change the folder, e.g. to the Pictures folder: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Pictures To remove the setting and go back to the default do: defaults delete com.apple.screencapture location To query what the current setting Read more…
Like many others I’ve been unhappy with the lack of Mac hardware lately so thought I’d revisit the world of osx86 after many years. There seems to be many more people involved in the scene now including some excellent how-to Youtube videos even by some high profile Mac blogs and Read more…
Here is a modern way to register user defaults. It uses dispatch_once to ensure the registration only happens once and performs it lazily on the first access. Keeps your defaults all on the one place. Also it is implemented as a global block in the class. NSInteger (^countBeforeAlerting)(void) = ^NSInteger(void) Read more…
Sometimes when compiling more sophisticated iOS projects you need the IOKit headers which were removed from the iOS SDK a few versions ago. A simple workaround is to copy them from the Mac OS SDK to the iOS SDK with these commands: sudo cp -r /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/Headers /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework Sometimes you also need OSTypes.h from Read more…
The documentation for UISplitViewControllerDelegate collapseSecondaryViewController says: When you return NO, the split view controller calls the collapseSecondaryViewController:forSplitViewController: method of the primary view controller, giving it a chance to do something with the secondary view controller’s content. Most view controllers do nothing by default but the UINavigationControllerclass responds by pushing the secondary view controller onto its navigation stack. Read more…
CloudPhotos : Using CloudKit with iOS is an interesting Apple sample project, last updated a year ago, I thought I would blog about some observations I had. The table view controller uses an array of CKRecords for its data. I sort of remember Apple saying not to use CKRecord as your Read more…
So after previous post on analysing the web requests, where we found out the classes involved and sort of when they should be used, we are still clueless as to how to structure our app to enable CloudKit syncing. We know we shouldn’t subclass fetch operation but then how should we Read more…
Introduction Syncing data across a user’s own devices in a privacy-sensitive way is one of the flagship features of CloudKit. Unfortunately many agree “it isn’t as documented as it might be”, e.g. there is no sync sample from Apple, the WWDC 2014 talk and WWDC 2015 talk didn’t quite get Read more…
I was researching the different ways people are implementing the part of MVC where the model notifies the controller about new data. A limitation of the delegate pattern is only one class can be the delegate, for other classes to listen then they need to use Notification Center notifications (or Read more…