I made this “pure Swift” extension on UIDevice. If you are looking for a more elegant solution you can use my ยต-framework DeviceKit published on GitHub (also available via CocoaPods, Carthage and Swift Package Manager). Here’s the code: import UIKit public extension UIDevice { static let modelName: String = { var systemInfo = utsname() uname(&systemInfo) … Read more
Determine device (iPhone, iPod Touch) with iOS
How can I develop for iPhone using a Windows development machine?
Duh!! Sometimes you have an “Aha!!” moment, sometimes it’s more of a “Duh!!” This is the latter. In the category for initWithSafeLocale the “super” init was coded as self = [super init];. This inits the SUPERCLASS of NSDateFormatter but does not init the NSDateFormatter object itself. Apparently when this initialization is skipped, setLocale “bounces off”, … Read more
Download and install latest version of Xcode. Set a Launch Screen File for your app (in the general tab of your target settings). This is how you get to use the full size of any screen, including iPad split view sizes in iOS 9. Test your app, and hopefully do nothing else, since everything should … Read more
You’ll want to embed these two TableViewControllers in a Navigation controller. You can do this in storyboard: Select the TableViewController with the first table in it In Xcode’s menu bar: Editor > Embed In > Navigation controller Create another TableViewController in the storyboard. Ctrl+Drag a storyboard segue from a TableViewCell on the first TableViewController to … Read more