Tag Archives: iOS

Monkey-Patching iOS with Objective-C Categories Part I: Simple Extensions and Overrides

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Rudy Jahchan

Have you ever wanted to introduce new functionality to base classes in the iOS SDK? Or just make them work a little bit differently? In order to do so, you must enter the wild and dangerous world of monkey-patching. Monkey-patching … Continue reading →

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Designing mobile APIs – basic behaviors

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Jonah Williams

As Rails developers we design APIs on a regular basis: routes for browsers to interact with a web app, JSON apis and routes for client side javascript to build dynamic pages, payloads queued for background processing on a server, and … Continue reading →

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Managing iOS Configurations per Environment in Xcode 4

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Rob Pak

At Carbon Five we usually have 3 – 4 environments our iOS applications will run against: development, acceptance, staging and production. Often, the property values that are unique across environments are URLs to APIs that we are integrating with. There … Continue reading →

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Debug logging with Xcode 4 breakpoints

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Jonah Williams

NSLog calls do not belong in release builds. Logging is slow and the performance impact of log statements on a device can be considerable. Logging is also noisy, it can obscure useful debugging information and may leak information you would … Continue reading →

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Automated ad hoc builds using Xcode 4

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Jonah Williams

I’ve previously discussed Continuous Integration for iPhone Projects in TeamCity using Xcode 3 and Building Xcode 4 Projects from the Command Line. Now I’ll tie those together and use TeamCity to automatically create ad hoc builds I can install over … Continue reading →

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Using Open Source Static Libraries in Xcode 4

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Jonah Williams

Xcode 4.0.1 allows us to more easily create and use third party libraries in iOS projects. I think the process is still more complicated than it needs to be. Xcode’s documentation suggests that it should automatically detect implicit dependencies and … Continue reading →

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