Now it’s easier than ever to deliver your screenshots and app preview using iTunes Connect. Submit just one set of screenshots and one optional app preview per device family, and they will be used across device sizes and localizations.
If your app’s UI or behavior changes based on device size, or if you would like to include localized screenshots, you can use the new Media Manager to add custom screenshots. Learn more by watching What’s New in iTunes Connect from WWDC16.
Bye Bye to NS from Swift!!
Many of the types are bridged to the Swift type like as (e.g., NSString being bridged to String).
Other Objective-C types are bridged to Swift are as follows :
| Objective-C | Swift |
|---|---|
| NSString | String |
| NSArray | Array |
| NSDictionary | Dictionary |
| NSData | Data |
| NSError | Error (Added Swift 3 – Xcode 8 Beta 4) |
| NSNotificationCenter | NotificationCenter |
And more…
Bye Bye to NS from Swift!!
Happy Coding 🙂
iOS 10 New Frameworks
- CallKit
The CallKit framework (CallKit.framework) lets VoIP apps integrate with the iPhone UI and give users a great experience. Use this framework to let users view and answer incoming VoIP calls on the lock screen and manage contacts from VoIP calls in the Phone app’s Favorites and Recents views. - Intents
The Intents framework (Intents.framework) supports the handling of SiriKit interactions. - IntentsUI
The Intents UI framework (IntentsUI.framework) supports the creation of an Intents UI extension, which is an optional app extension that displays custom content in the Siri or Maps interfaces. - Messages
To develop an iMessage app, you use the APIs in the Messages framework (Messages.framework) and To create app extensions that interact with the Messages app, allowing users to send text, stickers, media files, and interactive messages. - Speech
Using the APIs in the Speech framework (Speech.framework), you can perform speech transcription of both real-time and recorded audio. - UserNotifications
User Notifications framework (UserNotifications.framework), which supports the delivery and handling of local and remote notifications. - UserNotificationsUI
User Notifications UI framework (UserNotificationsUI.framework) lets you customize the appearance of local and remote notifications when they appear on the user’s device. - VideoSubscriberAccount
Video Subscriber Account framework (VideoSubscriberAccount.framework) to help apps that support authenticated streaming or authenticated video on demand (also known as TV Everywhere) authenticate with their cable or satellite TV provider.
References :
Best Tweets of iOS 10 & Swift 3 Updates
Use a struct instead of a string as your dictionary key for better performance ? #swiftlang #WWDC16 pic.twitter.com/9ITOLwyHox
— NatashaTheRobot (@NatashaTheRobot) June 19, 2016
So excited about the Swift Performance session already!#WWDC16 #swiftlang pic.twitter.com/vJAjrAJJjN
— NatashaTheRobot (@NatashaTheRobot) June 19, 2016
You can now know when the user dismisses your notification ? #WWDC16 #iOS10 #iosdev
— NatashaTheRobot (@NatashaTheRobot) June 19, 2016
Media Attachments in Notifications ?? #WWDC16 #iOS10 #iosdev pic.twitter.com/o7EopfE9wg
— NatashaTheRobot (@NatashaTheRobot) June 19, 2016
Whoa! We can now access the users notification settings for our app ??? #WWDC16 #iOS10 #iosdev pic.twitter.com/8fo9faLA6T
— NatashaTheRobot (@NatashaTheRobot) June 19, 2016
Oooh #keyPath in Swift 3.0 ? #byebyestrings pic.twitter.com/E9mj9NH7al
— Ayaka Nonaka (@ayanonagon) June 18, 2016
Now that I’ve had some time to recover from WWDC, I highlighted some of my favorite ? 3.0 features. Hope you enjoy! https://t.co/hm77J2NZV3
— Ayaka Nonaka (@ayanonagon) June 19, 2016
replacement for the graphics context creation pic.twitter.com/687sZCsxoD
— Alejandro Martinez (@alexito4) June 19, 2016
Before and after of Core Graphics (old C API) in Swift thanks to compiler magic using NS_SWIFT_NAME in Swift 3.0! ? pic.twitter.com/uJYANo5wqU
— Ayaka Nonaka (@ayanonagon) June 18, 2016
Announcements from Apple’s WWDC 2016 keynote
Apple Special Event. June 13, 2016.
At WWDC lots of major announcements. iOS 10 is biggest release yet, with incredible features in Messages and an all-new design for Maps, Photos, and Apple Music. With macOS Sierra, Siri makes its debut on your desktop and Apple Pay comes to the web. The latest watchOS offers easier navigation and a big boost in performance. And the updated tvOS brings expanded Siri searches.
- watchOS 3
- tvOS
- macOS Sierra
- Siri for Mac
- Apple Pay in Web
- iOS 10
- Swift Playgrounds – iPad
Now, Go with flow of technology, let’s learn something new… 😉
Get Reactions from Timeline Post via Facebook Graph API – Swift – iOS
New version of SDK is 4.16.x(Swift) and Graph API Version is 2.8.
With the Graph API 2.6 Facebook has given support to fetch (read only) the Reactions on Timeline Posts.
Post is updated for iOS 10 and Swift 3
API documentation is available here.
Let’s learn how to get reactions from the post
Install pods
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# Uncomment the next line to define a global platform for your project platform :ios, '9.0' target 'FBSwiftLogin' do # Comment the next line if you're not using Swift and don't want to use dynamic frameworks use_frameworks! # Pods for FBSwiftLogin pod 'FacebookCore' pod 'FacebookLogin' end |
Login with Facebook
I have already written a tutorial on Facebook Login.
Get Facebook Posts via Graph API
We can get the Facebook post via graph API : /me/posts for that we have to add user_posts permission with login.
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func getFacebookUserPosts() { FBSDKGraphRequest(graphPath: "/me/posts", parameters: nil, httpMethod: "GET").start(completionHandler: { (connection, result, error) in if (error == nil){ print(result) } }) } |
Get Reactions from one of the Post
We can get the Facebook post reactions via graph API : /{post-id}/reactions. We have to pass parameters like fields and summary as described in getReactions function.
Note : Here I am writing sample for only first post.
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func getFacebookUserPosts() { var strGraphPath : String = "" FBSDKGraphRequest(graphPath: "/me/posts", parameters: nil, httpMethod: "GET").start(completionHandler: { (connection, result, error) in if (error == nil){ print(result) let data = (result as! [String : Any])["data"] as! [[String : Any]] if(data.count > 0) { let strId = data[0]["id"] as! String strGraphPath = "/"+strId+"/reactions" self.getReactions(strGraphPath) } } }) } func getReactions(_ strGraphPath:String) { FBSDKGraphRequest(graphPath: strGraphPath, parameters: ["fields":"id, name, type", "summary":"total_count, viewer_reaction"], httpMethod: "GET").start(completionHandler: { (connection, result, error) in if (error == nil){ print(result) } }) } |
Response should be like
Type of reactions : NONE, LIKE, LOVE, WOW, HAHA, SAD, ANGRY
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{ data = ( { id = ACCOUNT_ID; name = "NAME"; type = HAHA; }, { id = ACCOUNT_ID; name = "NAME"; type = LIKE; } ); paging = { cursors = { after = REFERENCE_ID; before = REFERENCE_ID; }; next = "NEXT_REFERENCE_LINK"; }; summary = { "total_count" = 56; "viewer_reaction" = NONE; }; } |
#Like #Share #React 🙂 😛 😀
Happy coding 🙂
Use of Operator Overloading with Swift
I was just going through the Swift document and I found that Swift allow to overload the operator just like as C++ Language. Objective-C doesn’t allow to overload the operator.
As swift document we can also say “Operator Functions”.
Let’s Overload ^ (XOR Operator) to make Power of the value
Function Prototype :
Declare function prototype with left hand side value and right and side value.
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func ^(lhs: Int, rhs: Int) -> Int { } |
Operations in the function :
To make the power of the value we have to apply following operations
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func ^(lhs: Int, rhs: Int) -> Int { if(rhs == 0) { return 1 } else { var result = lhs for _ in 1 ..< rhs { result *= lhs } return result } } |
Let’s try to use with the operator :
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let a = 2^2 //4 let b = 2^4 //16 let c = 3^3 //27 |
Happy Coding 🙂
Swift 2.2 Warnings and It's Solutions – Xcode 7.3
Xcode 7.3 came with Swift 2.2 Version. I just updated to Xcode 7.3 and found following warnings because of Swift version change.
List of warnings with it’s solution:
- ‘var’ parameters are deprecated and will be removed in Swift 3
- Use of string literal for Objective-C selectors is deprecated; use ‘#selector’ instead
- ‘++’ is deprecated: it will be removed in Swift 3
- C-style for statement is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Swift
- __FILE__ is deprecated and will be removed in Swift 3, please use #file
Warning with:
[code language=”obj-c”]
func functionTest(var param:String) {
print(param)
}
[/code]
Solution:
[code language=”obj-c”]
func functionTest(param:String) {
print(param)
}
[/code]
If you want to update that variable inside the function then you have to create copy of that variable to do operations on that.
Warning with:
[code language=”obj-c”]
btn.addTarget(self, action: "functionName", forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.TouchUpInside)
[/code]
OR
[code language=”obj-c”]
btn.addTarget(self, action: Selector("functionName"), forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.TouchUpInside)
[/code]
Solution:
[code language=”obj-c”]
btn.addTarget(self, action: #selector(ViewController.functionName), forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.TouchUpInside)
[/code]
Apple Documentation : Added information about the #selector syntax for Objective-C selectors to the Selector Expression section.
Warning with:
[code language=”obj-c”]
var i = 0
for str in arrStr {
print(str)
i++
}
[/code]
Solution:
[code language=”obj-c”]
var i = 0
for str in arrStr {
print(str)
i += 1
}
[/code]
Apple Documentation : Removed discussion of C-style for loops, the ++ prefix and postfix operators, and the — prefix and postfix operators.
Warning with:
[code language=”obj-c”]
for var i=0; i<arrStr.count; i += 1 {
print(arrStr[i])
}
[/code]
Solution:
[code language=”obj-c”]
for i in 0 ..< arrStr.count {
print(arrStr[i])
}
[/code]
Warning with:
[code language=”obj-c”]
__FILE__
[/code]
Solution:
[code language=”obj-c”]
#file
[/code]
More swift tutorials/articles are available here.
Happy Coding 🙂
Swift Resources #3
Swift Useful Resources:
- Top 100 Best Blogs for iOS Developers
- SwiftyStoreKit Lightweight In App Purchases Swift framework for iOS 8.0+ and OSX 9.0+.
- Sensitive Fresh look at work with gestures in Swift.
- NumberMorphView A label view for displaying numbers which can transition or animate using a technique called number tweening or number morphing.
- SwiftImageProcessing This project demonstrates how to do pixel operations in swift.
- Gifu High-performance animated GIF support for iOS in Swift.
Posted by @NatashaTheRobot in Issue No. 80
If I got time then I will try to post the Swift/Objective-C useful resources everyday.
Happy Coding 🙂
Let Us Loop You Out Again – Apple Event Announcements
Apple’s ‘Let Us Loop You In’ On March 21, 2016 a special event by Apple.
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Announcements
- Apple introduces Liam.
- Apple announces CareKit.
- Apple Watch sport and leather bands in new colors for spring.
- Apple introduces the iPhone SE.
- iOS 9.3 is available as a free update for everyone beginning today.
- Apple introduces 9.7-inch iPad Pro.