If you are like me, you have some old iPhone devices at home that are out of date. They are too slow to browse the web and they are actually no good for nothing anymore. Which is a pity, because they still work and they actually look pretty. So why not use them as clocks …
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Swift 5 code: func getArrayOfPlist() -> Array { let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: “content”, ofType: “plist”) var contentsArray = [String]() if let path = path { if let contentsXML = FileManager.default.contents(atPath: path) { do { let plistData = try PropertyListSerialization.propertyList(from: contentsXML, options: [], format: nil) contentsArray = plistData as! Array } catch { NSLog(“Error when decoding …
I had the problem that I coded an app that records video in landscape. Although only landscape orientation is allowed in the app, users would frequently hold the device in portrait mode and produce shitty videos. Therefore, I decided to show a note to the user demanding to hold the device horizontally when holding it …
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A while back I wrote an Objective-C category that helps you managing location authorization requests. As I needed the same functionality in a Swift-based project, I did the effort to transfer the code into Swift. You can download the Swift location authorization extension here.
I have a mixed Objective-C/Swift project and activated use_frameworks! in my podfile because I wanted to use a Swift-based pod. In order to enable the usage of the Objective-C-based pods in your Swift code, I thought it would be necessary to stick to the common approach of including the pods’ header files into a bridging …
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