Software Anomalies

Code coverage… Back in the days of running on iOS 6 using Xcode 4, measuring code coverage for unit tests was fairly straightforward. A set of coverage scripts made it easier.Then along came iOS 7 and Xcode 5. Coverage still worked if you continued to run on iOS 6. But on iOS... [Read More]

If you want to set background for Navigation Bar to be black and all colors inside it to be white.Before ios 7, you might have used this code :[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes: [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: [UIColor whiteColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName, [UIColor whiteColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName, [NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(0, -1)], NSForegroundColorAttributeName, [UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial-Bold" size:0.0], NSFontAttributeName, nil]];But if you use the same... [Read More]

As you probably know by now, iOS 7 has brought a couple of changes to the design language. This means your app needs to be updated so as not to look out of place on the OS.Here at the Vault, we are going through the same process. You may have... [Read More]

Today I upgraded my macbook by doing so much effort (thanks to apple for making me download new 5.6 GB sized OS several times) to OS X Mavericks and after updating, what I found was my local dev environment was broken. Apache had stopped working. I tried to find issues with... [Read More]

Lets say you have a UITextView which displays an NSAttributedString. This string contains words that you'd like to make tappable, such that when they are tapped you get called back so that you can perform an action. you realise that UITextView can detect taps on a URL and call back... [Read More]