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Introducing SMWheelControl

Today I am proud to announce the availability of a new Pod for iOS which will be included in my forthcoming app. SMWheelControl an iOS control allowing the selection of an item from a 360° spinning wheel with a smooth inertial rotation.

About the Builder Pattern in Objective‑C

When dealing with complex object creation in an iOS application you may feel the need for a cleaner and more fluent approach. During my latest development my colleague @alexiskinsella set up a pattern based on providers in order to mimic the factory behaviour we often find in languages such as Java. Recently, in the occasion of a side project, I am studying a slightly different approach, based on this article by Matthias Wessendorf.

How to add custom environment variables in Xcode and CocoaPods

Let’s say we would like to share some Xcode environment variables across multiple targets in a project configured with CocoaPods. For instance, we would to use the same app version number across our development and distribution targets in order not to retype the same values for each version bump over and over again.

How to resolve “Unable to start status bar server. Failed to check into com.apple.UIKit.statusbarserver: unknown error code” exception

Ever wondered how to resolve the following error while executing GHUnitTest by Command Line? *** Assertion failure in -[UIStatusBarServerThread main], /SourceCache/UIKit_Sim/UIKit-2372/UIStatusBarServer.m:96<br /> *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSInternalInconsistencyException’, reason: ‘Unable to start status bar server. Failed to check into com.apple.UIKit.statusbarserver: unknown error code’

Un collaborateur jeune

L’avantage d’avoir un collaborateur jeune, c’est qu’il a pas encore appris à mentir.

– Bernard Bourigeaud