axldyb

// Overriding NSLocalizedString to use NSLocalizedStringFromTableInBundle instead
#define currentLanguageBundle [NSBundle bundleWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:[[NSLocale preferredLanguages] objectAtIndex:0] ofType:@"lproj"]]
#ifdef NSLocalizedString
#undef NSLocalizedString
#endif
#define NSLocalizedString(key, comment) NSLocalizedStringFromTableInBundle(key, nil, currentLanguageBundle, comment)

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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calebd

import Foundation

/// An abstract class that makes building simple asynchronous operations easy.
/// Subclasses must implement `execute()` to perform any work and call
/// `finish()` when they are done. All `NSOperation` work will be handled
/// automatically.
open class AsynchronousOperation: Operation {

    // MARK: - Properties

nicklockwood

Hacking UIView animation blocks for fun and profit

In this article, I'm going to explore a way that we can create views that implement custom Core Animation property animations in a natural way.

As we know, layers in iOS come in two flavours: Backing layers and hosted layers. The only difference between them is that the view acts as the layer delegate for its backing layer, but not for any hosted sublayers.

In order to implement the UIView transactional animation blocks, UIView disables all animations by default and then re-enables them individually as required. It does this using the actionForLayer:forKey: method.

Somewhat strangely, UIView doesn't enable animations for every property that CALayer does by default. A notable example is the layer.contents property, which is animatable by default for a hosted layer, but cannot be animated using a UIView animation block.

preble

import Foundation

func > (left: NSDate, right: NSDate) -> Bool {
    return left.compare(right) == .OrderedDescending
}

extension NSCalendar {
    func dateRange(startDate startDate: NSDate, endDate: NSDate, stepUnits: NSCalendarUnit, stepValue: Int) -> DateRange {
        let dateRange = DateRange(calendar: self, startDate: startDate, endDate: endDate, stepUnits: stepUnits, stepValue: stepValue, multiplier: 0)
        return dateRange

msrose

Combining two git repositories

Use case: You have repository A with remote location rA, and repository B (which may or may not have remote location rB). You want to do one of two things:

• preserve all commits of both repositories, but replace everything from A with the contents of B, and use rA as your remote location
• actually combine the two repositories, as if they are two branches that you want to merge, using rA as the remote location

NB: Check out git subtree/git submodule and this Stack Overflow question before going through the steps below. This gist is just a record of how I solved this problem on my own one day.

Before starting, make sure your local and remote repositories are up-to-date with all changes you need. The following steps use the general idea of changing the remote origin and renaming the local master branch of one of the repos in order to combine the two master branches.

nicolasembleton

#!/bin/bash

sudo kextunload -b com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport
sudo kextload -b com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport

quinntaylor

// See http://nshipster.com/key-value-observing/
// Put this code a common utilities header, and use it to have the compiler help check correctness of key paths.
// Uses macro stringification to create an Obj-C string literal, plus validation code that the compiler optimizes out.

@interface NSObject (KeyPathFakeCategoryForCompilerWarnings)
+ (instancetype)__fake_method_for_compiler_warnings__;
- (instancetype)__fake_method_for_compiler_warnings__;
@end

/*! Returns a string for the given keypath, but causes a compiler warning if the keypath is not defined on \c self.

natecook1000

extension NSTimer {
    /**
    Creates and schedules a one-time `NSTimer` instance.
    
    - Parameters:
        - delay: The delay before execution.
        - handler: A closure to execute after `delay`.
    
    - Returns: The newly-created `NSTimer` instance.
    */

larahogan

Native app performance metrics

This is a draft list of what we're thinking about measuring in Etsy's native apps.

Currently we're looking at how to measure these things with Espresso and Kif (or if each metric is even possible to measure in an automated way). We'd like to build internal dashboards and alerts around regressions in these metrics using automated tests. In the future, we'll want to measure most of these things with RUM too.

Overall app metrics

• App launch time - how long does it take between tapping the icon and being able to interact with the app?
• Time to complete critical flows - using automated testing, how long does it take a user to finish the checkout flow, etc.?
• Battery usage, including radio usage and GPS usage
• Peak memory allocation