iOS dev

One of my most popular answers in StackOverflow is the one I gave to the following question: “What is the best architecture for an iOS application that makes many network requests?”

Useful code if you need to tack users activity in your application.

PLCrashReporter is a standalone open-source library for generating crash reports on iOS. When I first wrote the library in 2008, it was the only option for automatically generating and gathering crash reports from an iOS application. Apple’s iOS crash reports were not available to developers, and existing crash reporters — such as Google’s excellent Breakpad — were not supported on iOS (Breakpad still isn’t). Since that time, quite a few crash reporters and crash reporting services have appeared: Apple now provides access to App Store crash reports, a number of 3rd-party products and services were built on PLCrashReporter (such as HockeyApp, JIRA Mobile Connect), and some services have chosen to write their own crash reporting library (TestFlight, Airbrake, and others).

You can share files between an iOS app and your Mac using file sharing via iTunes. Using file sharing the contents of your application’s Documents directory is available in iTunes. This also works the other way, where you can place files from your Mac into the shared area of iTunes and make them available to your iOS app.

SSH has many features which are helpful when working regularly with files on remote servers; together they can give a vast increase in productivity over the bare use of SSH. If you regularly use SSH, it’s worth spending a little time learning about these and configuring your environment to make your life easier.

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