Around the web and even in Apple’s WWDC 2015 Advanced NSOperations talk they say: “If we set the max concurrent operation count of an NSOperationQueue to be 1, then we essentially make our NSOperationQueue into a serial operation queue.” Sometimes Read more…
It’s not often you see code as disappointing as this, particularly because CloudKit is so well designed for the situation being described, but it’s actually very common. I think it happens when you have a developer with speciality in one area, Read more…
This post is about my Stack Overflow answer. In Xcode, Window->Devices, choosing a device and clicking the up arrow in the bottom bar brings up the console and this traditionally allowed you to view output from your app when not running in the Read more…
If you attempt to set desiredKeys on a notificationInfo for the new iOS 10 CKRecordZoneSubscription class, saving results in the runtime error: <CKError 0x17424b610: “Invalid Arguments” (12/2006); server message = “cannot add additionalFields to this subscription type”; uuid = 4E08C616-97AA-4E9A-B584-B7972B1CD99B; container ID = “iCloud.com.x”> Read more…
Here are some references from around the web on how to implement CloudKit syncing. It will be added to… 9th August 2017 In the Build Better Apps with CloudKit Dashboard WWDC 2017 video at 4:30 Dave Browning presents a ToDo Read more…
Some of the new iOS 10 features contain link-time checks, that is they are only enabled if the app was linked to the iOS 10 SDK. When working on an open source library it is necessary to debug when linked to an Read more…
I thought it would be good to start this developer blog with some photos of how my iOS development began. At university during my Ph.D. I had been building .NET Compact Framework apps in C# for Pocket PCs, usually on iPaqs with GPS Read more…