I installed the Argus activity tracking app yesterday, and was surprised to discover that it was showing me my footstep data from the day I purchased my iPhone 5S. The iPhone 5S has the M7 motion co-processor, which can track activity in the background. Â The way I expected this to work is that an application […]
iOS 7 has significantly expanded the number of downloadable fonts available for iOS apps. iOS 6 supported downloadable fonts. This is hinted at in Apple’s Tech Note HT5484, which says “Apps can also install the following fonts as necessaryâ€. The fonts available to install mostly provided support for non-English text. With iOS 7, they’ve expanded […]
There’s an article in the excellent online magazine objc.io by Brent Simmons on the topic of using SQLite instead of Core Data. Â An example I’ve heard cited before is Brent’s example that he uses in this article of “what if you need to mark 10,000 items as read?”. This is a compelling example because with […]
Some folks are complaining that there wasn’t enough “innovation” in Apple’s iPhone 5s and 5c announcements. Â But I think the 5s represents the kind of innovation Apple does best. Â I’m talking about the fingerprint scanning. A few years ago, backups were a pain in the butt. Â Apple did something amazing with Time Machine in that […]