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The Case of the Missing Translation
Since iWoman was acquired by FOKUS KIND Medien we have been working on a complete UI overhaul. This also requires many new translations. The previous version of iWoman had been localized with Linguan,...
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Hero Rays
Our app prod.ly recently got the ability to award achievements to users for a variety of activities. Now, achievements have little impact if you cannot translate those into a rush of dopamine for the...
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DTRichTextEditor 1.6.12 + DTLoupe 1.5.8
These updates to DTRichTextEditor and DTLoupe address some tenacious crashes occurring from invalid geometry of sublayers. BSA Banner Changes FIXED: Invalid Geometry Crash fix FIXED: Orientation...
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XLIFF Fix
I reported in an earlier post that there are some gotchas trying to localize an app with the combination of Xcode’s XLIFF export and POEditor.com. The latter stated that it is not their fault and...
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Growth Spurt
In January 2016 the Cocoanetics blog as well as my iOS development business will exist 7 years. The business entity behind it – Drobnik KG – existed for twice as long. At the end of 2015 there will be...
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Swift Golf
For a project I needed a way to get a reference to a UISwitch contained in the contentView of a UITableViewCell. I remembered from my research for my Swift talk that there was this handy is operator,...
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GeoCorder saves the day
Sometimes I hear from users of my apps and the ones I like to hear from the most are the happy ones. Here is one case of a happy customer that relates to my app for recording map paths: GeoCorder BSA...
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DTFoundation 1.7.9
I’m doing this year-end update for DTFoundation to not have any unreleased contributions. BSA Banner Changes FIXED: Support for app extensions FIXED: Missing resume for data task in URL unshortener...
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DTCoreText 1.6.17
This update to DTCoreText aggregates and release half a year worth of fixes. The previous update was in July 2015. BSA Banner Changes ADDED: Line truncation ADDED: Minimum and maximum line heights...
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DTKeychain 1.0.2
This update to DTKeychain adds the ability to use it as a dynamic framework. This nifty little component is what we use for all things required to store account information. BSA Banner Changes ADDED:...
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Kvitto 1.0.1
Kvitto is my first Swift component. I built it to decode universal app store receipts for the purpose of purchase validation and determining subscription durations. Somehow the podspec for Kvitto had...
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DTBonjour 1.1.2
DTBonjour simplifies the communication between client and server over Bonjour by allowing you to send any object which conforms to NSCoding. This update adds a new delegate method to inform about...
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Video Job Pitch
Here’s a short video where I am trying to make a point of why you might like to be working in Vienna, Austria. My company Drobnik KG is looking for a Junior developer to join the team. And video is...
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Day of the Day
Manning offers three books (including mine) as Deal of the Day, for January 2nd. Here’s your chance to get a great deal on several great books! Barcodes with iOS Ionic in Action Apache Cordova in...
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Top 100 Best Blogs
Ok, it is probably just a ploy to get back links… and page rank… Nevertheless, I feel flattered to be mentioned in this list amongst many other illustrious individuals and organizations. And it’s not a...
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NSLog crashes with certain NSURLs
This is a bug in NSURL which managed to astonish me. Even as a seasoned developer you can only but marvel at the easy way to reproduce it and wonder what might be the reason for it happening. A client...
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App-Level Passcode
In the latest version of iWoman we are finally coming around to implementing TouchID. Or more precisely: device owner authentication. iOS 8 introduced the ability to let us use the user’s finger print...
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First Quarter 2.0
Since November 2015, I had been really busy because our most valued client International Color Services started a new project with us. Then, at the turn of the year, I become the new CEO of the family...
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Steve’s Senior Moment
Stefan “Steve” Gugarel came on board of Drobnik KG on April 1st, 2012. He took over main responsibility of the day-to-day development for our most important client at that time. Now, in 2016, he has...
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DTFoundation 1.7.10
This bug fix release for DTFoundation addresses some build problems that resulted from updating to Xcode 7.3 as well. BSA Banner Changes FIXED: stringByURLEncoding returned incorrect strings with iOS 9...
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