The Fabric mobile app makes it easy for you to know what’s going on with your app. Real-time alerting system will send you a push notification when something critical is affecting your app.
Start building end-to-end applications on Bluemix and quickly deploy them with Kitura on both OSX and Linux. Kitura is a new, modular, package-based web framework written in the Swift language.
The HTTP library used by the Spotify iOS client. Authentication and back-off logic is a pain, let's do it once and forget about it! This is a library that allows you to centralise this logic and forget about the ugly parts of making HTTP requests.
EarlGrey is a native iOS UI automation test framework that enables you to write clear, concise tests.
With the EarlGrey framework, you have access to enhanced synchronization features. EarlGrey automatically synchronizes with the UI, network requests, and various queues; but still allows you to manually implement customized timings, if needed.
Tactile is a safer and more idiomatic way to respond to gestures and control events. It lets you catch bugs at compile time and write more expressive code.
The big tech news this week is that the FBI is trying to force Apple to unlock a suspect's iPhone. One of the interesting points around this story is that the iPhone in question is an older one, an iPhone 5c. Newer phones have what Apple calls the Secure Enclave, which some say protects against requests of this nature; even if Apple wanted to break into your phone, they couldn't. Which then brings up an interesting question I've seen a lot of people asking: what exactly is the Secure Enclave, and what role does it play here?
Testing view controllers isn't as hard as people think. Using Quick, Rachel Bobbins shows how useful testing can be, covering different testing patterns she and her team use such as buttons triggering network requests, handling successful and failing response cases, and properly presenting other view controllers.
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