iOS Development Archives

Technofog

Technofog (/tɛkˈnɒ/fɒɡ/) - the confluence of domain specific jargon, technical debt and knowledge gaps that negate sensible use of even…

Posted on: June 11, 2019
By: jammer
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App Store App Submission – Continual Failure and Obfuscation

The App Store has to be one of the flakiest "services" I've ever had the displeasure of having forced on…

Posted on: March 19, 2016
By: jammer
With: 9 Comments

My Life With a MacBook Pro – 3 Years In

Hmm ... where to start? I had to buy a MacBook, I need to write and compile apps for iPhones…

Posted on: February 27, 2016
By: jammer
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Xamarin iOS TeamCity Build

So this turned into a complete nightmare for a while. TeamCity Mac Agent Push Installation I started by trying to…

Posted on: February 26, 2016
By: jammer
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MvvmCross iOS Support and Samples

A while ago Martijn van Dijk and I had a very brief chat about creating an MvvmCross iOS Support library…

Posted on: February 16, 2016
By: jammer
With: 2 Comments

Abstracting APIs – Abstract Potentially Insane?

There's no doubt about it, things that help are good. This topic of abstraction came up in a chatroom the…

Posted on: December 20, 2015
By: jammer
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View Model Value Change Tracking in MvvmCross & Xamarin

Change tracking object contents at first might seem like an easy or straightforward task but there are lots of pitfalls…

Posted on: December 19, 2015
By: jammer
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Whitelist SSL Certificates in .NET for Xamarin / MvvmCross Apps

I have a fairly complex development environment for my current project and needed to allow some self-signed certificates to pass…

Posted on: December 15, 2015
By: jammer
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iOS Keyboard Handling in MvvmCross View Controller

I've just had to handle the situation where a user taps on a text editor control in an iOS view…

Posted on: December 12, 2015
By: jammer
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MvvmCross Beta5 & SidePanel Navigation Sample

There is a new release of MvvmCross yesterday that takes the platform to v4 beta 5 that was released yesterday. …

Posted on: November 7, 2015
By: jammer
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Xamarin iOS Build Server is Too Old

This is silly message really. If you're getting this error (or something similar) but you also know that you're running…

Posted on: July 4, 2015
By: jammer
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Learning MvvmCross

Learning a new technology can sometimes be a very time consuming and error prone process. The more complex the technology…

Posted on: July 4, 2015
By: jammer
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The Apple Developer Clique – MkII

So, today I got another email from Apple about my enrollment in their development program. Turns out I don't have…

Posted on: June 25, 2015
By: jammer
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Xamarin – The Baptism of Fire – Windows 7

So as I blogged a few days ago about the issues I was having with getting to grips with all…

Posted on: June 24, 2015
By: jammer
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The Apple Developer Clique

I'm genuinely gobsmacked by this. I applied for the Apple Developer program a couple of weeks ago on behalf of…

Posted on: June 20, 2015
By: jammer
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PCL Profile 259 in Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 7, Xamarin, MvvmCross & ReSharper 7.1

Well, today was a lot of fun. You can tell just how much fun from the ridiculous title of this…

Posted on: June 19, 2015
By: jammer
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Code Reviewing – Xamarin Components and MvvmCross Plugins

At the moment I'm working through the implementation of a mobile application build on top of the Xamarin platform targeting…

Posted on: June 7, 2015
By: jammer
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Xamarin Pairing Visual Studio 2012 to Mac for iOS Builds

Well, this was a bit of a pain in the arse. When I initially paired Visual Studio 2012 to my…

Posted on: May 16, 2015
By: jammer
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Enabling CSS Hover Selector on Touch Enabled Devices

Most web developers and designer make use of this common CSS selector to help make pages easier to consume by…

Posted on: November 8, 2014
By: jammer
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Yosemity Handoff – What’s really happening?

It should be obvious to people that the more and higher levels of integration of devices like the Mac and…

Posted on: October 26, 2014
By: jammer
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