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How to Setup Xcode 13 Server for macOS Development
Continuous testing is paramount to ship serous software. Yet continuously running tests is a pensive productivity plight. Is it possible to automate testing? Yes you can.
How to Parse Notarization Tool Output
“I want a REST API for notarization since it’s impossible to parse text coming from the notarization tool reliably.” What if I say that the command line API is the best method for integration with build pipelines? Read on to find out more.
How to Automate macOS Application Notarization
Notarization may take just a few clicks in Xcode, but this takes time and a security risk. You include notarization as part of your continuous delivery pipeline. Here’s how.
How to Securely Provide Apple ID Password into Notarization Build Jobs
Including passwords into the source tree is a big security breach. Similarly including passwords into build jobs would be insecure. Learn how to securely provide Apple ID credentials into notarization jobs.
How to Transfer Applications for App Store Small Business Program Members
The App Store Small Business Program offers lowered commission cost with one big caveat: no app transfer. But apps graduating from a “hobby” into a “small business” would definitely involve transferring ownership. Read how to transfer apps without engaging in the app transfer process and losing out on the program’s benefits.
How to Detect Apple Silicon and Rosetta from within a Shell Script
Compiled code can conclude the instruction set through conditional compilation. But what about processor-independent scripts? Finding out the current native processor architecture and emulation status thereof would be very useful in build systems that doesn’t support cross-compilations. Find out how a shell script can find out whether it is running under Apple’s processor, Intel, or […]
How to Pass App Store Review: Guideline 4.3 Spam
Publishing similar apps is considered spamming. Yet there are valid reasons to develop multiple apps from the same code base. Here is what you need to know to avoid being labeled as spammer by app reviewers.
How to Combine Apps into a Single Container App
It would be a big blow when Apple rejects your suite of apps, call it “spam” and tell you to move into a container app. If this is happening to you, then this article would be a solution to your predicament.
How to Compile OpenSSL 1.1.1 for Apple Silicon
The long-rumored ARM Mac is on the horizon. With this comes the big work of porting and re-compiling current applications. But many Mac App Store apps are dependent on OpenSSL, which doesn’t yet support ARM on the Mac. Here is how you can continue to test your mac app while waiting for official OpenSSL support […]
How to Publish White-Label Apps in the App Store
Being a white-label app vendor in Apple’s store is not easy. App Review could label you as a spammer because of a number of similarly-looking template apps and jeopardize your entire developer account.
How to Unit Test Network Code in Swift
Testing network I/O code without accessing the backend is not easy. Here is how you can mock the backend by injecting code into the URL Loading System
How to Maintain Loading State in Cells
When a table view asks for a cell, often images in the cell isn’t yet available and needs to be fetched from a server – thus the cell gets a placeholder image. But static placeholders doesn’t look as good as animated ones. Unfortunately cell views gets scrolled off and re-used which makes managing animations challenging.
Clean Architecture with VIPER Sample Project for UIKit
Architecting applications to meet today’s challenges and be ready for tomorrow’s problem is not an easy feat. The principles of clean architecture may be sound, but separating the signal from the noise is tough. Here is a sample VIPER project for iOS that you can tinker to learn about the principles of clean architecture.
How to Implement VIPER Clean Architecture in an iOS App
Compartmentalizing functionalities within an app to improve its maintainability is difficult. More so when you’re not well versed with software architectures and other software engineering principles. What if you can confidently structure your app to be resilient and adaptive to change?
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