Category Archive for ‘Bug Reports’

Serious iOS Issue with GS1-128 Barcodes

Jul 29, 2015

As you might now I have an dual interest in product barcodes. First, there is my book treating all kinds of barcode symbologies supported by iOS. Second, there is ProductLayer where we are building a crowd-sourced product database via the prod.ly social network.

At first I thought that the problem would only exist for really low quality bar codes (rdar://19438067) but now I found a perfectly good looking specimen that has the same issue: iOS does not recognize it.

Filed as rdar://22048146 and on Open Radar. I am hoping that Apple can fix this issue before iOS 9 is done.

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Radar: Xcode framework for wrong platform

Jul 27, 2015

It took me almost an entire day to figure out that the following issue is caused by some indeterministic behavior of Xcode. As a developer, you expect to see the same results if you use the same parameters (i.e. “deterministic”), but this is a situation that sometimes succeeds, sometimes doesn’t.

In DTFoundation I have two targets that produce a DTFoundation.framework, for iOS and OS X respectively. Now the problems seems to be that since I set both to define a module “DTFoundation”, Xcode randomly gets confused during building an iOS app and sometimes might try to build the OS X framework for iOS.

This was filed as rdar://22008701 and on Open Radar. From the looks of things Rob Rix has filed bug report rdar://20490378 that appears to be describing the same issue. If you disable implicit dependency finding in the scheme, the problem also goes away.

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Radar: 2 for the Watch

Jul 12, 2015

Unfortunately Runtastic crashes on iOS 9. So I switched to tracking my nordic walks with Apple Watch. This works fine for the most part. But I experienced two issue lately. One of those is quite funny, so I chose to publish the bug reports here as well.

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Radar: ABUnknownPersionViewController

Jun 18, 2015

Apple is introducing a new contacts framework in iOS 9. The do so very aggressively to even replace view controllers from AddressBookUI.framework with their new implementations. Unfortunately not without problems.

Normally I am prefer to keep quiet about bugs in iOS beta versions, but this one affects apps public on the app store which are using this view controller and therefore I felt it necessary to warn my iOS developer colleagues about it. This is the crash I was alluding to on iOS Today.

rdar://21357089 – ABUnknownPersionViewController_modern overreleases CNContactViewController
rdar://21438771 – ABUnknownPersionViewController Regression

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Radar: UITextView Scroll Position Bug

Apr 29, 2015

Working on an issue that has been reported for Notepad Classic 2007 (currently free on App Store) I found that UITextView has problems keeping the scroll position when showing or hiding the keyboard.

This issue didn’t occur on iOS 7 and I wasted more than 5 hours trying to come up with a workaround. The problem is that showing and hiding the keyboard is causing superflous calls to layoutSubviews on the text view which causes it to change the contentSize and contentOffset. This gets further complicated by UITextView dynamically changing the contentSize as you scroll down through text that is longer than a few pages.

It is rare that I am so confounded by a bug, so I even opened a DTS call for it, hoping that there is a workaround for this problem.

Filed as rdar://20743459 and on Open Radar.

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Radar: CLGeoCoder Bug

Apr 23, 2015

Fun fact! Sometimes Apple engineers confuse dupes of Radars with the original ones:

Engineering has determined that your bug report (20549548) is a duplicate of another issue (20553126) and will be closed.

And that even though my radar has the zip file with the sample app attached and the alleged original only a reference to my GitHub RadarSamples repo. Oh well… as long as Apple fixes the issue, I am happy to give the win to Peter Steinberger. Fatality!

But, I have one more bug report up my sleeve! A similar issue occurs server-side when using CLGeoCoder, so I filed this as rdar://20665320 and on OpenRadar.

Again, this bug report comes with a beautiful sample app. This is the first bug report sample app I made in Swift. Only took me 4 times as long than if I made it in Objective-C, but a developer’s gotta do what a developer’s gotta do. 🙂
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Radar: NSDataDetector Bug

Apr 15, 2015

This has been bugging me for quite some time, since some of my address book contacts are affected. NSDataDetector does not properly handle addresses which have more than 2 numbers with one slash.

Previously, this issue was compounded by another issue in the geocoder which would take the apartment number (instead of the street number) for determining the geographic position. To workaround this I had to add another address to some of my contacts that didn’t have the apartment number. This seems to have been fixed in iOS 8.3, but NSDataDetector is still broken.

Filed as rdar://20549548 and on Open Radar. Read more

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4 Radars: Percentage-driven Modal Transitions

Mar 06, 2015

I wanted to add a custom modal transition for the prod.ly app when you tap on a thumbnail image. I wanted to make a tutorial about that as soon as understood interactive transitions, but stumbled over a couple of bugs.

Of these one I would consider quite severe and new as of iOS 8.3, which made it a show-stopper. As long as this bug is present I cannot add an interactive percent-driven dismissal transition to my app.

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