iOS Updates of the Week
We have a few topics to cover this week.
First,
When it comes to Piracy detection note these things down:
- Don’t put piracy detection into your app, you have everything to lose and nothing to gain when it inevitably goes wrong.
- If you ignored lesson one then don’t make your app auto-tweet a confession from a potentially innocent user.
- If you ignore both of those lessons just apologize and be humble about it.
Great news for Mogenerator users this week. Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch released an updated versionwhich has some new features and bug fixes.
Tools to make your life easier.
UIActivity Providers for iOS 6
Essentially A directory of all the iOS6 UI Activity providers in one place.
Makes it easy for your users to share the amazing content in your app.
These two are for helping you design wireframes for your app that you can use to articulate what exactly you want your app to do to your developer/developing team and designer to refine it and spruce it up.
Auto Layout & Interface Builder
Matt Tancock discusses some of the biggest problems when using Auto Layout and Interface Builder together and suggests some solutions.
Code – to save you time.
Javier Soto with another take on Core Graphics drawing into cached UIImages , this super clean class renders drawing code into an image on a GCD queue and caches the result.
Automatic creation of RESTful web services by pushing up some Objective-C code into the cloud? Interesting idea. Who said Objective-C wasn’t suitable for server side code?
That should be enough to get you started for now.
Best,
Kevin