iOS - iOS Team Technical Fanboy

Flirting with people - iOS style

There was a girl I liked. I did not know how to draw, sing or say cute things to impress her. I decided to make something cute the only way I knew how - by doing animations on iOS. This is the result: Drawing curves To create an animation of

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Fastlane Tools

KrauseFx recently released Fastlane Tools, a framework for automating the release process to the App Store (and more). I encourage you all to check it out! At Wikia we developed a similiar automated process for creating and submitting Apps, but it was less general and more specific to Wikia Apps,

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Reset the iOS simulator using Frank

Frank page has some step definitions contributed by users. The step for resetting the simulator is very useful, as there is some state in the App, and it's hard to test around it. For example if you have a "Rate me" dialog popping up on the third time

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Hard to notice multithreading bug

During working on my UIBezierPath reimplementation to enable checking for crossing paths I encountered a bug. The bug was really hard to debug. It happened randomly. App was generally unstable, it was crashing randomly and in random functions, both mine and Apple's dealloc, retain, etc. I was quite happy that

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Scaling a UIView with subviews staying the same size

Easiest way to scale a UIButton or a UITableViewCell is to set a transform on it: view.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(1.5f, 1.5f); If this works for you that's perfect, but sometimes some subviews start looking bad when zoomed in, especially images and text. To make the UIView zoomed in,

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One weird Podfile trick to manage your App farm

We have a lot of apps in Wikia and a lot more to come! To manage the codebase we're using CocoaPods with our whole code split into local Development Pods. Every app is generated from a thin skeleton project that pulls the rest of the code as Pods. For every

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Human Interface Guidelines compliant UIButton subclass

iOS Human Interface Guidelines tell us: Make it easy for people to interact with content and controls by giving each interactive element ample spacing. Give tappable controls a hit target of about 44 x 44 points. Sometimes icons for the buttons, provided by designers, are smaller than the above mentioned