Posts tagged with ‘Xcode’

  • Where I’ll be at WWDC 2021

    June 7, 2021

    I’ll be doing a few things this week at WWDC 2021 and wanted to pass along my schedule. Hope to see you at one or more of these happenings!

  • The Xcode 11 and Swift Package Combo Platter

    September 12, 2019

    Since the Swift Package Manager (Swift PM or SPM) was introduced in late 2015 it has seemed like a natural fit for Xcode and SPM packages to work well together at some point in the future. At WWDC 2019, Apple announced that future was arriving in Xcode 11.

  • Where I’ll be at WWDC 2019

    May 31, 2019

    I’ll be doing a few things next week at WWDC 2019 and wanted to pass along my schedule. Hope to see you at one or more of these happenings!

  • Where I’ll be at WWDC 2018

    June 2, 2018

    I’ll be doing a few things next week at WWDC and wanted to pass along my schedule. Hope to see you at one or more of these happenings!

  • Xcode: Who’s to Blame?

    October 17, 2017

    A recent tweet from Dave DeLong reminded me of something that’s been on my mind for a long while.

  • New Xcode Build System and BuildSettingExtractor

    June 13, 2017

    Last week at WWDC 2017, Apple announced a new build system for Xcode, with an opt-in preview in Xcode 9. The new system is written in Swift and promises to be a significant advance in a number of areas including performance and dependency management. The new system is built on top of the open source llbuild project and lays the foundation for integrating the Xcode build system with the Swift Package Manager.

  • Learning More About Xcode Build Settings with BuildSettingExtractor

    February 8, 2015

    Last week I posted about BuildSettingExtractor, a utility that makes it easy to pull the build settings out of an Xcode project file and into xcconfig build configuration files. (The post also mentions some xcconfig file benefits with links to ‘how to’ information. Read the earlier post here.)

  • Generating Xcode Build Configuration Files with BuildSettingExtractor (xcodeproj → xcconfig)

    January 31, 2015

    The most recent NSScreencast covered using build configuration files to specify build settings in Xcode. (Episode #154)

  • Getting an app ready for iPhone 5

    October 2, 2012

    I was traveling the week between the iPhone 5 announcement and release. I returned from my trip champing at the bit to update my app WALT to use the entire 4-inch display, instead of being stuck in the letterbox ghetto. Updating turned out to be simple and straightforward.  Here’s how it went.

  • Shipping a first iOS app

    August 27, 2012

    My first iOS app, WALT, went live recently, and I wanted to share some of my thoughts on the development experience.  Overall, there were two big differences from past projects I have worked on.

  • Moving to new Objective-C literals

    July 30, 2012

    Last week, I moved one of my projects over to use the new Objective-C literals for NSNumber, NSArray and NSDictionary as well as the new syntax for boxing expressions into NSNumber and NSString objects.  Here are a few comments on how it went.