iOS is an operating system for mobile devices developed by Apple Inc. that is currently used in their iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Apple TV (2nd generation) devices. It shares a lot with Mac OS X, but is optimized for touch-based interfaces. Use this tag for questions about iOS-specific code.
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Draw editable angles
One of the first things I did when I learned Objective-C was to create a little canvas with editable angles. Basically, you tap to create points. Every tap connects to the previous tap. So if you tap ...
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Multiple Choice Guessing Game
I've built an app for members of an organization I'm in--the app shows the picture of a member with four multiple choice buttons, and the user then tries to guess the member's name. Pretty simple, ...
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Finger painting code
I have a very simple view that handles touch events and draws accordingly. It's nothing significant, but it does use a bit more CPU than I would like (35%). Again, it is the bare minimum (<90 ...
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Imitate UITableView reordering interaction
I have a UIScrollView full of vertically stacked subviews which I want the user to rearrange as they desire. I've implemented a ...
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Globally accessible helper class [closed]
I would like to get opinion if I am doing this right. I am creating a helper class that is globally accessible to my whole project. I want it to be easily called like ...
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Managing a wish list from an API
I have a class that I use to manage a list to/from an API in Swift. Using a clean code approach, I'm wondering if, how, and why I should change it when I have a class that uses it for just one or two ...
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Top wiki pages as an app
I recently did an interview task. I was rejected because of bad code quality. There was two tasks. Here I will present the first, second will be posted in time.
This project is avalible on GitHub
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Show a quiz from JSON in iOS
I have to create a quiz of showing questions from a JSON and post back the answers.
Here's the structure of JSON:
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First assignment for Stanford iOS8 Course: enhancing a calculator
I recently started learning Swift through Stanford iOS8 Course. The first assignment is to add some features to simple Calculator which was presented during lectures.
List of tasks:
add button for ...
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Checking two text field for match and checking for null
Is this the most efficient way to do this? Any suggestions on some thing I might have missed or can do better?
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Comparing 2 arrays of dictionaries and saving user preferences
I will start by explaining the situation and then show some code. I have an app that has an array of "default" settings to display on a user's dashboard. The user can modify these settings to enable ...
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Determining the number of days from today
Today I've got a pretty simple snippet to be reviewed. The function is extremely simple, as all it does is retrieve some entities from Core Data and then compares the ...
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Idiomatic way of handling optional values in Swift
I'm new to iOS development and also Swift. I'm working on a project consisting of a menu that leads to my various experimentations with the iOS SDK.
I've written the menu titles and ...
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Registering a plist to NSUserDefaults
I've been struggling with registering a plist into NSUserDefaults and I've finally got it working, though I'm not sure that its written properly. I'm hoping someone ...
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Simple 3…2…1 countdown in iOS app
I would like to display a 3...2...1 countdown on my iOS app (before to take a picture) but I didn't find an elegant solution. I don't want to make a Countdown app with an NSTimer. For me the important ...
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Swift iOS - Call back functions
I'm working on an iOS app which handles API request based on authentication. Authentication is done through OAuth and every API request is sent along with ...
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Push Notifications - save token id into a database using Asynchronous Request
based on this answer I modified my code. Is this the correct approach now?
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Save token id into a database in Swift
I want to save my users tokens id into my database using POST request in Swift (here PHP code here). I am a bit confused about synchronous and asynchronous request.
Is this code the right way to do ...
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BaseTableViewController with pull to refresh and auto load more
I've implemented a table view controller for the purposes of subclassing. The table view controller implements a pull-to-refresh which will automatically reload the table view's data. I am looking ...
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Avoiding callback chaining in authenticator
I'm developing an iOS Application in Swift that uses Google Cloud Endpoints as its backend. For now, I've just written the code for the user to login with his Gmail account and I've refactored it as ...
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Unit testing - Parsing data from the Weather Underground API
I'm writing unit tests for the first time.
The tests are for my library on Github.
I downloaded the JSON and stored it into a local file that looks like this:
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Creating an iOS form with many similar text field cells
I'm using multiple instances of an object creating a form:
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Clear function for Stanford iOS 8 Calculator application
I am following the Stanford iOS 8 lectures and I believe I have successfully added the "Clear" functionality to the application, but I don't know if I am doing it properly.
Controller
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Deleting email using mailcore with imapSession
The following function works fine. However, deleting 1 mail takes about 4 seconds (from start of operation to the firing of the completion handler).
Currently, using ...
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Retrieving values from UITableViewCell
I have a UITableview with custom cells, every cell has a button called cellButton. When the user taps the button I present an ...
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Create a new window in Titanium
I'm trying to define a new window for use inside a Classic Titanium application for iOS. For the window to work properly, some preprocessing is required. This preprocessing includes the creation of ...
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Localization manager based on ReactiveCocoa
I have a localization manager class which can change app language on the fly. It's using ReactiveCocoa and my main concern is that I'm not using some of RAC parts correctly.
First (in ...
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Creating and saving blurred screenshots in iOS
I am trying to create a class that takes a screenshot of the screen, makes it blurry and saves it to NSUserDefaults.
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Preparing a walkthrough: Freeze effect :s
I have a method that load my walkthrough view. I have my view controller composed of a scroll view. And others views controllers used only for the walkthrough (maybe I should used xib uiview instead ...
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Caching data on disk in iOS
I've got an app that's got an activity/timeline like view. Since I don't want to retrieve the entire timeline every time, I'm caching all the events.
Currently, this is how I go about it:
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Handling button behaviour [closed]
I have an iOS app where I use some buttons for different things, but I'm repeating a lot.
For buttons pressed:
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Swift 1.2 Singleton Implementation
I am pretty new to Swift, as a solo developer I was wondering if somebody could pass comments on the singleton implementation below. The code does work, but being new to Swift and knowing that there ...
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Simple LibGDX Pong game
I created my first java game in LibGDX and it's working fine but I'm 100% sure a lot of my code can be written shorter than now. Does anyone have tips how I can make this code better?
Like the ...
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Getting WiFi SSID on iOS in Swift
I've seen a lot of Objective-C implementations but I'd like to do it in Swift.
I did it like this and it seems to work just fine. Does anyone have comments and/or improvements to make?
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Changing image of a UIImageView based on a scrollView contentOffset
My task is pretty simple and my code works, it's just that my code feels a bit clumsy to me (and probably will for you too).
I have a view controller (...
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Parsing travel duration data
I'm trying to parse an estimated travel duration and distance between two waypoints using Google Directions API. Tap on this to see an example of data received.
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Using NSPredicate with NSFetchRequest in a NSFetchedResultsController
I am learning CoreData and I wanted to have my code reviewed. As usual, I get something to work, then I attempt to refine it.
I have a data model that consists of an Item entity and a subItem entity. ...
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HMSegmentedControl react to tapping on currently selected segment
I'm using HMSegmentedControl, an open-source UISegmentedControl subclass. I'm trying to react to the user tapping on the currently selected segment. HMSegmentedControl only supports reacting to a ...
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Networking in iOS Swift
This piece of code is working - It gives me a lot of JSON back, which I have yet to parse, but I'd like to show my code here first to get tips on how to improve what I already have:
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Switching between view controllers that are loaded in the background
I have a dining menu app that scrapes the data from a website and redisplays it in a mobile format, displayed below:
If the user swipes left and right, the app will show the previous/next meal (ex. ...
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Segue between view controllers using NIB files
I'm learning how to develop for iOS and I want to begin with nib's before storyboard to get a better understanding.
I just set up 3 view controllers:
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Closure as UIControlEvents handler
I'm expanding the functionality of this SO answer.
Mainly I'm focusing on:
You can add as many handlers as you want.
You can remove (i.e. cancel) the handler.
You can receive the ...
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Archiving data in file system for iOS
Being my first time archiving data to the file system, I would like to have my code reviewed. This simple test project works as expected, but I want to see if what I am doing is following best ...
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Pure Swift solution for socket programming
I have spend quite some time now to find out how exactly to do socket programming in Swift (Xcode 6.1). There are a few examples out there, but most of them no longer work for the latest release of ...
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Usage of MVVM in iOS [closed]
I'm an iOS developer and I'm guilty of having Massive View Controllers in my projects so I've been searching for a better way to structure my projects and came across the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) ...
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Subclass SKSpriteNode
I decided to subclass SKSpriteNode for a game test in Swift today and soon realised that it was not as simple as my Objective-C background suggested. After a little ...
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NSAssert or NSLog in defaults switch case
I am wondering if I should use NSLog(@"Switch out of range") or NSAssert(FALSE,@"Switch out of range"); in the following ...
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Consecutive animations
I'm new to Core Animations, I want to fade out two different layers one after another.I write them in a CATransaction block. I wonder if there is better approach to make such animations.
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