Tag: objective-c

iOS Keyboard Dismiss

Posted on June 30, 2016

One of my biggest pet peeve when it comes to iOS is how the keyboard stays on screen by default. Basically, when you add a TextField the keyboard pops up and won’t go away. Pretty much every app out there has the keyboard dismiss if you tap outside of it.... Continue reading

iOS Money TextField

Posted on May 11, 2016

Most financial apps at some point need to have a user input a monetary amount. A very common way this is handled is a widget that accepts only numeric input. As the user types, it adds the given digit to the cents field. For example, the user types 1 and... Continue reading

iOS App Install Request in App

Posted on April 10, 2016

Recently I was faced with an issue where I was writing an app that could call another app using iOS’s URL scheme. An issue I ran into was how to handle the calling app not being installed. Basically, when openURL failed, I needed to ask the user if... Continue reading

iOS Activity Overlay

Posted on March 18, 2016

I was recently working on an iOS project and was implementing a login view. As usual, the user enters their credentials, the credentials are sent to a server for verification and, if successful, the user is allowed into the app. The problem I ran into is that the asynchronous account... Continue reading

Interop Objective-C Objects In C Using ARC

Posted on December 18, 2015

Introduction Using C functions from Objective-C is very easy but going the other way isn’t so easy. Especially with ARC which can destroy the object out from under you because C code is outside of ARC. With ARC Objective-C objects are no longer allowed in C structs for this... Continue reading

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