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We currently use the GitFlow process to manage our releases (or so I think) for a native iOS app. Here are the steps we carried out for context: We created a new repo with the main branch We then ...
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I want to develop a miminal app for iOS and Android. Basically, I want to have a widget (or similar micro-app) that displays how many items I have in a list. If I open the widget, it just opens a ...
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I'm developing a Swift Package distributed via Swift Package Manager (SPM). I have other dependencies (Swift packages) that my package depends on. Is it possible to expose types (classes, structs, etc....
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My team and I are beginning to mock our API responses in our iOS app so we don't have to worry about our backend being up when testing. I have conditional compilation directives based on the ...
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I am starting to work on Core Data applications with SwiftUI. I have a view that looks like this: struct ContentView: View { @FetchRequest(sortDescriptors: []) private var todoItems: ...
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I was reading a post about testing in SwiftUI and the author said that don't write unit tests for your View Models that tests the UI of your view. The example he gave was a simple counter app. ...
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I'm in the mobile development domain and I use semantic versioning to version my releases. I keep both versions the same as long as new builds are released for both iOS and Android platforms at the ...
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I am looking into building an iOS application and using an internally built API to access data. My API has some authentication endpoints that takes in a username and password and, if the login is ...
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I am currently developing an iOS application where there are options on the screen to edit and delete a list. Only the user who created this list can edit or delete it. I am struggling to determine ...
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I have an iOS application that uses the Core Data framework. I'm migrating the application from Objective-C/Swift to TypeScript + React Native. My Core Data configuration uses SQLite as a backend. The ...
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I hope this is the right place to ask. I'm an experienced developer, and have used MVC for much time. This question is in the context of iOS/macOS development for the most part, (SwiftUI). Using MVC ...
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i want to set up basic login page in xamarin.forms. There is no username/password, just a simple pin so far i have 3 pages to do this Sign-up Pin page Sign-up Confirm Pin Page (re-enter pin to ...
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So, I have an entity called Consultation that is being used as a member variable of the class VideoCallViewModel that goes like this: struct Consultation: Equatable { enum Status: Int, ...
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In our organization we sometimes have to create a poc (proof of concept) to either validate or invalidate the way to go. Currently we're having a discussion around how to embed this within our ...
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I have an iOS/macOS tennis app that now lets the user import video, and I would like to add the ability to automatically edit out the significant amount of downtime where players are not in a rally or ...
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Most of the answers I see that discuss what the model layer is comprised of, only address stateless MVC, particularly ASP.NET's implementation of it. When working with desktop MVC frameworks such as ...
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I have been confused about the best process for private distribution in iOS - imagine we are a company like Just Eat, where venues can sign up with us and take orders from customers via a customer app....
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I have a mobile app (iOS and android compatible) that needs to know if it's far or close to the user's laptop/ desktop (e.g. whether it's within 5 meters or not). I need to make it secure such that ...
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I get that a front-end isn't secure on the web because one could theoretically access the front-end code by opening dev tools and changing the code. Do I also need to be careful about security for a ...
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I'm working with Web (react) and Mobile (IOS, Android) teams. And I find that even with a microservices architecture we end up always doing duplicated work at the front end/client level. How to ...
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We have built an iOS/MacOS library, that is being used by several iOS & Mac Apps of a very big company. The library is being distributed through Cocoapods and Carthage, the package managers for ...
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I am working on learning native iOS development in Swift, and I am trying to find something that is similar to what I've learned in Android development with Kotlin. In particular I am referring to ...
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I'm working on making a product for tracking workers/staffs locations and in that case the application need to be able to run on the phone for at least 10 hours without the phone suddenly closing the ...
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First of all a small introduction, im relatively new to Swift and to programming in general, been doing it for the last year and loving every and each new thing of this vast world. My post is about ...
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I was playing one of my favorite games from Supercell, and I imagine it’s a rather complicated game, and it stems across the two main mobile platforms. My question is, do the developers write the ...
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As of iOS 6, Apple thought Unwind Segues would be added to their layout/views. What this means is, when you're on the 7th view of a stack, you can pop back to any other one. For those of you pure OO ...
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I need some guidance that how to capture the face when we blink the eyes. I have seen the core Image framework, but it detects only after capturing the image. But I need it to be live capture.
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Being mobile developer for quite some time (ios/android) I've learnt that local database is very rarely needed. Mobile application are mobile by definition, they usually serve only as clients to ...
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I'm wondering how other people approach the problem of working on a particular screen in an iOS app that is, for example, behind a login screen and requires a lot of interaction to navigate too. It ...
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Since Apple introduced Catalyst ealier this year during WWDC '19 it becomes possible to have a single codebase for an app that runs on iPads and Macs. Already for a long time it was possible to ...
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While there are prescribed methodologies for the middle layer when it comes to transaction management like Saga pattern etc. I want to know what's the advice on handling such on a mobile application ...
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I'm wondering how best to handle the scenario of releasing a mobile app that includes an incomplete feature behind a feature flag in one version and then the completed feature behind the flag in a ...
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I want to ask about iOS application characteristic/behavior regarding processing location information. My previous wording isn't straightforward and seems to make it look unclear (which is my problem ...
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Im not sure if this is the right place to post this kind of question, but, I heard from a colleage that he creates all his views in a table view and for each item creates a separate cell. e.g. A ...
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I'm new to Core Data, and am not sure how to reconcile the need to inherit from NSManagedObject with the fact that my model is a Swift struct composed of structs. I chose to make my a model value type ...
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Imagine the following scenario: I wish to build a photo-sharing social network app similar to Instagram (iOS only for the sake of conversation), and I want to make sure that users are using only my ...
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We developed our app for iOS and Android in native code. Before using scrum we had the following development logic: We define the overall product requirements (for iOS and Android app) The iOS ...
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I am looking to build an app where the only way a new user can enter the app is if they have been invited by an existing user. Are there any API's, tutorials or resources that can help me achieve this....
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We currently have a customer that wants us to implement push notifications to our app. The problem is that for this customer, security is really, really important... I am not able to find any official ...
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I am thinking through some techniques where by I have an application with a timeline. The timeline plays in real time and at points on that timeline I would like to trigger some actions. There are no ...
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This is a question about Android, and iOS apps. The technology is Xamarin (C#) but this is not really important. The app will be deployed to the stores. The client app must be compatible with the ...
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For the occasions that I've been offering SaaS, I've been asked to develop Apps that are pretty much a clone of regular e-commerce webpages, but with a few features like notifications and, well, being ...
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I am planning some app as a part of our product. One part of the app will be to receive push messages. Sometimes it's months between uses of the app and, by experience with other apps I've used, it ...
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I'm using MVVM and I have an app with a UITabBarController, the Main tab of which is a list of publications and the other is a Search screen where they can search for publications. Searching returns a ...
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I need to use DispatchQueue within controller and pass it as dependency. This is what I have tried so far and worked out two solutions. Need to ask what is better and in common use by other developers:...
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The question is does it make sense to write a unit test which asserts that the current thread is the main thread? Pros/cons? Recently I've seen the unit test which asserts the current thread for the ...
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I have an app that already locally archives user created objects and has for several years. Each archived object can have several nested objects or arrays of objects in it--all of which conform to ...
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I have a very specific use case. We are working on a Project where user can buy the tickets to an event. In this, we are asking the user to enter an Email id where he can receive the email from where ...
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I have a website which uses REST Api for communication. All data retrieval and save happen through Rest Api calls(polyglot environment). Now I am planning to create an Android and iOS app . I have ...
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Because of some essential C++ libraries, I have to mix Objective-C and C++ in my code. But the problem is that the callback between C and Objective-C is extremely hard to design and manipulate, so I ...
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