The Messages View – Online Communicators Made Easy Our objective was to create a universal messages view for all types of communicator messaging apps. This idea was flagged by our team leader during one of our brainstorming sessions. What quickly caught our attention when we were attempting to create a user comments screen in our other project was the lack of a similar component in an open source space.
iOS UI Testing and Why It Does Not Always Work: a.k.a. Pushing The Limits of the XCTest Framework When Apple introduced the new UI automation framework in 2015 we became excited. We could finally test the UI and the behaviour of our applications using Swift (or Objective-C) and the native library. Previously, we had to write scripts in JavaScript and execute them using Instruments. This was not the easiest way to write, maintain, and debug tests. Thankfully, since Apple introduced the new framework things began to change...but did they really?
Securing your app with encrypted-core-data It’s true that Apple cares very much about user’s privacy. Since iOS 8.3, it’s impossible to access arbitrary data in an application’s sandbox. Additionally, developers may choose to enable “Data Protection” option for their app, which will encrypt the sandbox if the device is locked with a passcode. Nonetheless, some extra protection wouldn’t hurt, if it didn’t involve too much work.
Jaguar Land Rover Developer Challenge Jaguar Land Rover Hackathon is an annual business idea competition, bringing together some of the best developers and business analysts from all around the UK.
PGS Gaining Expertise in Mobile Applications Development Intensive development of mobile applications has taken place at PGS Software during last year. We have completed numerous projects not only for our customers (e.g. iDoMove), but we have also devoted time to internal projects. We have placed almost 30 our own applications in App Store some of which have…
