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CoreLocation Background Update Messaging

Jun 29, 2012

Two years ago I put together revolutionary chart that detailed the flow of delegate messages when sending an app into background. This was even featured by Erica Sadun of TUAW because it for the first time visualized the whole process in a easy to understand way.

Based on this chart Carl Brown from PDAgent made an addendum to deal with the special case of background region updates and sent it to me. To my shame I have to admit that it was sitting at the bottom of my inbox for 4 months now and it is only now that in my effort to reach Inbox Zero I am dealing with this and putting it up here for your viewing pleasure.

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Radar: Allow Overriding of User-Agent on UIWebView

Jun 28, 2012

Here’s another thing that I had discussed with an Apple engineer at WWDC. UIWebView at present does let you easily modify the user-agent header field that it sends to the server. We found this functionality sorely lacking when we needed to change the user-agent in iCatalog. There are some scenarios where the server-side browser-detection fails and you want to override the user agent for example with one to pretend the web view is desktop Safari.

This feature request was filed as rdar://11767306 and on OpenRadar.

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iWoman 2.0.8

Jun 26, 2012

iWoman is approaching the end of support for iOS 3. This update fixes a minor bug and adds import/export functionality to allow you to move to a new iPhone that is able to run iOS 4 or higher.

Changes

– FIXED a bug that could lead to new cycles not being added to the cycle list upon pushing the Add button.
– ADDED functionality for importing and exporting your database to a text file which is accessible via iTunes.

The update has been submitted to Apple and will be released as soon as it is approved.

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Linguan 1.1.1

Jun 25, 2012

The 1.1.1 version of anything is always something special. Linguan 1.1.0 brought the first new feature in the form of support for localizing XIB files. Linguan 1.1.1 now contains some hot fixes to address several inconvenient bugs.

Changes

FIXED: Problem with invalid UTF8 characters coming out of ibtool
FIXED: Broken Compatibility with OS X 10.6
FIXED: Changes to the Toolbar did not get saved
FIXED: Checkbox missing to enable/disable XIB support

The update has been submitted to Apple and will be auto-released once it passes inspection.

When reporting issues with Linguan please always create a small sample Xcode project with the bare bones contents to be able to reproduce the problem. This enables us to fix it all the more quickly.

Update July 6th: Update is now available on the app store.

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Radar: Filevault2 uses incorrect keyboard layout for initial unlock

Jun 25, 2012

Fresh from our series “Another Day Another Radar” here’s one that stumped my associate Rene.

Since I’m getting a knack in filing these I did the “quick file” for him, as rdar://11738458 and on OpenRadar. As always I am doing this publicly because other people out there might have experienced the same issue which can be quite nerve-wrecking. Also this problem was observed on an OS X version that is public and widely used.

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DTCoreText Case Study: NMSTC

Jun 25, 2012

Despite some advances in rich text support coming in iOS 6 my DTCoreText open source project continues to prove its usefulness. First and foremost it provides the ability to convert simple HTML text into attributed strings to give you the ability to retain full control over the display of the text.

I love to receive mail telling me about where in real life DTCoreText finds good use. Especially so if it is used for good, like by the Nottingham Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre info app. A case study.

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Girls in Tech (iOS Edition)

Jun 24, 2012

We need more ladies in tech, it is as simple as that. Or as complicated. The statistics are not looking good and I’ve been wondering for a long time why they are not changing to the better. Or not faster.

Why are there so few Women in Science & Technology?

People are quick to respond with “It’s society’s fault!” and they are half right, half wrong. Right, because there is no simple answer to this riddle, no single point of failure that this skewed relationship can be burdened upon. If there is no single reason for a grand scale effect then it is either religion, politics or the society that is blamed.

Update: Anja Skrba translated this article into Serbo-Croatian.

Update: Gajk Melikyan translated this article into Armenian.

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Forbidden Fruits

Jun 22, 2012

A short while after the WWDC 2012 keynote, when Apple made the iOS 6 BETA publicly available, somebody tweeted in German that there are probably already more devices running iOS 6 than Android 4. I translated the tweet to English and tweeted it for everybody’s amusement.

According to sources the iOS 6 BETA is already more widely distributed than Android 4.0

I also added the “According to sources” to make fun of pundits who always add something like this to underline the authoritativeness of the rumors they pick out of thin air. Reactions ranged from calling BS over joy to suspension of disbelief with most tweeps getting that this is one of these things where you cannot really know but it would be funny if it were true, or maybe it really is?

I read it on the Internet and so it must be so …

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Radar: ARC releases UIColor prematurely

Jun 21, 2012

There’s a gotcha/bug if you’re using -[UIColor CGColor] to get a CGColorRef for use with CoreGraphics. I think several people have already documented this on their blogs, but I was having the same issue in my DTCalendarView when running it on device. The same code worked before enabling ARC, but with ARC enabled it there is a difference whether its running on device or simulator.

On Simulator all is fine. On device however you get a EXC_BAD_ACCESS because the ARC release the UIColor way before the end of the current scope. There are several possible workarounds but it is still unintuitive that previously working code ceases working with ARC.

We were told to also file bug reports for unexpected behaviors or something that is counter intuitive, so here you go… Radar #11717864 and OpenRadar. Here’s the sample project.

Update: Yes, I know that you could call this “works as designed”. But the point here is that it is non-obvious and causes previously working code to break. Even the gurus at the Big Nerd Ranch stumbled over this one and filed is filed. In the least I would expect an LLVM compiler warning for this to be added.

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Radar: App- and Folder-specific Passcode Locks

Jun 21, 2012

I’m on fire!

Never before have I filed so many Radars in a single day. This one aims to remove the need for components like my DTPinLockController which I used in iWoman.

This is a Feature Request for getting passcode locks on a per app and per folder basis. So that you can hand your unlocked device to your kids for playing Games but still apps being secure that they have no business in starting. This would passcode-enable all apps that don’t have custom solutions and also make all those custom-passcode-viewcontrollers unnecessary.

If there where an API for inquiring about passcode status then we could keep the user logged in just like the Find my Friends app is doing it. This requires entering the password only if you don’t have a passcode lock set.

I filed this as Radar #11716971 and also posted it to OpenRadars. Please dupe it if you think that this is a useful feature for our favorite platform.

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