How to fix performance problems when using NSDateFormatter
Unfortunately the majority of web services return dates in the ISO-8601 format and not in time interval. So to parse the date we end up using NSDateFormatter which is extremely slow at doing that.
But there is a way for you to improve date parsing performance, you can use the SQLite library to make the conversion. You may have to write a few more lines to get the same result, but the performance gain is totally worth it.
Let's take
… Read moreiOS app versioning with git tag
Wouldn't it be great if your iOS or OS X projects just take their version and build number automatically from git? Well, it can!
Using a script in your build phase, you can run a shell script to determine the version number and inject this into the Info.plist of a build.
It will change your plist based on the last git tag that you have. If that is the current SHA it will show the version as 0.9.
Fast emoji access
One of the things Apple added to iOS 6 is the ability to add Emojis without any hacks and custom shortcuts to most used words.
With that in mind I decided to combine this together and I created my own list of Emoji shortcuts.
Here it is:
20 reasons why users uninstall your application
Here are my top reasons:
- Your application sends way too much push notifications.
- User simply didn’t like the icon.
- User didn’t understand what application is for in the first 20 seconds.
- Your application is buggy
iOS design tips
I am no designer, but I usually forget that and always get my hands dirty trying to do do some design. I believe design is at least 50% of an app, because of that I already lost the count on how many apps I bought just because of their beautiful design, it's like collecting paitings.
Over the years I gathered a few tools that help me when trying to create iOS apps, believe me, this will make your life a
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