Adding Peek and Pop to your View Controllers
With iOS 9, new iPhone models add a third dimension to the user interface, called force touch, or more commonly 3D Touch. A user can now press your Home screen icon to immediately access functionality provided by your app. Within your app, a user can now ...
Challenges when making Today Widgets
Apple introduced the Today extension in iOS 9, more commonly called widgets. Apple describes widgets like so: Widgets give users quick access to information that’s important right now. For example, users open the Today view to check current stock prices o...
Searchable Items
Motivation App search has been here since iOS9. This feature seems to go largely unused. Maybe this is because both developers and people selling features have forgotten it exists. This is a quick guide for less technical people, and a semi quick guide fo...
Preparing for iPhone X
iPhone X was announced on September 12, 2017, and with that came a lot of questions about how apps will look and behave with this new phone. We as iOS developers are now accustomed to supporting a variety of screen sizes, but there are still some new chal...
What this WWDC means for us
WWDC 2017 happened at the beginning of June in San Jose, California, and Apple presented lots of exciting changes. We already covered in this article the most important iOS additions from a user's perspective, but what exactly did WWDC 2017 bring for an i...
Haptic Feedback makes you vibrate!
The iPhone could vibrate ever since it was launched. And so did almost all the other phones, even from before smartphones were a thing. But Apple took this function further than anyone else, by introducing the Taptic Engine in the Apple Watch, and afterwa...
Serpent - more than just another JSON mapping framework
At Nodes, we develop apps that rely a lot on complex REST APIs. The iOS team needed a fast and fully featured JSON mapping framework. We had been using our own internal parsing framework for Objective-C for a long time, but when Swift came out we decided...
Understanding code signing for iOS apps
If you're an iOS developer, most likely you've had to deal with code signing. And if you're a junior iOS developer, you might've felt a bit overwhelmed by everything going on in the "Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles" section of the developer port...
Continuous Integration With Deployment to TestFlight and HockeyApp
We've recently revised our development process on the iOS team and set up a continuous integration server to make and deploy our builds faster, easier and more consistently. This post should shed some light on what we chose and how we set it up. The Requi...
