Obtaining an .ipa file for an iOS app that is available on the App Store can be a challenge, especially if you don’t have access to the file directly. Fortunately, the ipatool tool offers a solution. With ipatool, you can… Continue Reading
The actor model was proposed decades ago (1973) by Carl Hewitt as a way to handle parallel processing in a high performance network — an environment that was not available at the time. As a quick summary an actor is a message… Continue Reading
The Swift Standard Library currently implements the three most essential general-purpose data structures: Array, Set and Dictionary. These are the right tool for a wide variety of use cases, and they are particularly well-suited for use as currency types. But sometimes, in order to… Continue Reading
Knowing the type and meta-type in Swift is not as common as in Smalltalk or Objective-C. Where in objective-c, you can instantiate an object out of a class name or modify classes at runtime this is not possible in Swift.… Continue Reading
The Cocoa frameworks and the Model-View-Controller pattern go hand in hand. A typical iOS application, for example, is composed of models, views, and view controllers. The model and view layers are glued together by the controllers of the application. Those… Continue Reading
When developing financial apps you probably get the requirement to detect jailbroken devices. The reason for detection is to either disable some or most of the app’s functionalities due to security concerns that come from a jailbroken system. This article… Continue Reading
ROT13 is a simple algorithm that shifts letters in a string forward 13 places. It’s not hard to write a rot13() function, but it is a little harder to wrap it up neatly so you avoid global variables while still making… Continue Reading
UI testing is a great way to ensure that your UI interactions keep working as you’re adding new features or refactoring your app’s codebase – it keeps your app functional. Writing and running UI tests is kind of different from… Continue Reading
In computer science, the longest palindromic substring problem is the problem of finding a maximum-length substring of a given string that is also a palindrome. For example, the longest palindromic substring of “bananas” is “anana”. Some people will be tempted… Continue Reading
Today I found a one year old Zeiss VR One in the office. Everybody thought it does not work with Google’s cardboard app because it is missing the input button – what makes it useless. So I had a look at Google’s… Continue Reading