I found myself in a predicament at the gig. I updated my iPhone 12 Pro to iOS 16 but wasn’t able to debug the app in Xcode 13 tethered to the MacBook. During iOS 16 beta period, a brave teammate tried to compile the app in Xcode 14 on their personal Mac and there were … Continue reading New Versions of iOS with Old Versions of Xcode
Over the Christmas break, I usually take time off to reflect on the past year and year to come, spend time with family and friends, and take on a project I put off until I have more time to focus. That project in 2022 was finally adding Widgets to GodTalk. I know I’m late to … Continue reading Adding WidgetKit Support to GodTalk
I needed to create a stash of my changes, you know… context switching, when I noticed that not all the files were added when I ran git stash on my branch. Well, these files were new files that git wasn't tracking. So I restored the stash git stash pop, reviewed the status git status, and … Continue reading git stash Chronicles
Push Notification capabilities for iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS rely on the the Apple Push Notification Servers (APNS) platform to send notification data to devices. From a very high level view, there are two parts to the Push Notification puzzle. A connection between your app and APNS when the app is initially launched on the … Continue reading Create a Push Notification Certificate
On the start of my journey as an independent iOS Developer, I played around with many ideas that I have always wanted to try. For my first app, I wanted to create an app that was useful and that would drive me to gain exposure to some of Apple’s frameworks like UICollectionView, CoreData, and UNUserNotificationCenter. … Continue reading GodTalk Origins
Shirmond Conway 