Articles on monkey-patching

Rudy Jahchan

Rudy Jahchan

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

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 is extending or modifying the behavior of code at runtime without changing its original source