Hello, I am developing a type of "note taking" App in iOS for a specific vertical market (its not just a simple note taking App, but note taking is a basic function of the App). A user will use the App to collect data (text and images) and store them in permanent storage (a data file of some sort.)

The iOS App will have a companion desktop application for the Mac, which will take the data in the "data file" collected by the iOS App and perform more analytical processes. So, the system is a two part system. One part is the iOS App. portion (the data collection part) and the second portion is the Mac desktop application part to perform more in-depth analytical functions.

It kind of looks like this  ---   iOS App >>>> (data file) <<<< Mac Application.  [The "data file can be XML, a database, etc.]

*** My question is:   How can I share the "data file" between the iOS device and the Mac portion of the system. By "share" I mean, how do I collect the data on the iOS App, put it into a permanent storage file and then send that file to the custom Mac desktop application?

Note: I am not asking how to share unassociated files between devices.

Also, if anyone has an example of how to create Apps with data storage, for use in CocoaTouch Mac applications, I would greatly appreciate it. I have not found any tutorials that show how this is done in a practical manner.

Thank you for your help.
Fulano

IOS app in swift
Single view controller with a table view. Project runs as it's supposed to. My question is: How do I move my table view down the page a bit so I can add some text above the table view? I think the answer is in this extension class so I'll post that first. Thanks!

Extension.swift

import UIKit

extension UIView {
    
    func anchor (top: NSLayoutYAxisAnchor?, left: NSLayoutXAxisAnchor?, bottom: NSLayoutYAxisAnchor?, right: NSLayoutXAxisAnchor?,  paddingTop: CGFloat, paddingLeft: CGFloat, paddingBottom: CGFloat, paddingRight: CGFloat, width: CGFloat, height: CGFloat, enableInsets: Bool) {
        var topInset =  CGFloat(0)
        var bottomInset = CGFloat(0)
        
        if #available(iOS 11, *), enableInsets {
            let insets = self.safeAreaInsets
            topInset = insets.top
            bottomInset = insets.bottom
            
            print("Top: \(topInset)")
            print("bottom: \(bottomInset)")
        }
        
        translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        
        if let top = top {
           self.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: top, constant: paddingTop+topInset).isActive = true
        }
        if let left = left {
            self.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: left, constant: paddingLeft).isActive = true
        }
        if let right = right {
            rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: right, constant: -paddingRight).isActive = true
        }
        if let bottom = bottom {
       

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Can someone tell me why, when viewed landscape on a mobile device (iPhone in particular), this page has the ads over the top of part of the results but when viewed portrait (or on a pc) it does not?  http://www.gopherstateevents.com/results/fitness_events/results.asp?event_type=5&event_id=745&race_id=1306

Thank you!

When photo app is opened, I want get event so that I can launch my app. Is there a way to do that?

Hi,

I'm currently looking at building a small basic app that a few of my customers are looking for, however they all want it as their own unique app so I will need to whitelabel each release from one core set of code, instead of managing several different sets of code / apps.

All companies will have the exact same app features (which are very basic), however I will need to change the 'logo', 'app name' and 'main UI color' for each release.

Swift / iOS and Android Studio seem to have their own 'Whitelabel Management' feature so that you can have one code base and release variable releases from the code base.

So, you build one core app, and then you can release different builds with the variable settings.

QUESTIONS
01 - Has anyone ever used this approach before, and if so do you have any advice?
02 - Is anyone aware of any software (outside of Swift and Android Studio) that will manage code like this, as I might go the Hybrid approach with React Native.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Hello,
Are there any good products, sites or services that can be used to basically develop a prototype app for planning purposes and relaying information to others like graphics, dev etc.? Something that can be used as a kind of project manager to build a app.

So lets say you have a idea for a app but want to do a rough, not flashy, draft of the layout and mock actions for buttons etc. So if you tap here then this screen pops up type of thing so not actually coding the app but just some type of WYSIWYG interface to help test out the flow of the design before spending time and money on the actual coding and graphics etc.

Is it possible to send an In-App email from iOS Swift 3 app without it opening a new email message window that the user needs to click 'Send'

I've tried using MessageUI and MFMailComposeViewController but it opens an email message window.

The from and To address will always be the same in my app and I just ned the message to be sent without user intevention

Hi all,

I'm new to both VS and Cordova so be gentle :)
I'm trying to lock my cordova app into landscape orientation only. I went into the config.xml and set orientation to Landscape which ends up doing this:

<preference name="Orientation" value="landscape" />

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But when i run/debug the project in browser emulator, the device is still portrait.
I tried using net.yoik.cordova.plugins.screenorientation plugin with following code nad it didn't work either (alert worked)

document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);
function onDeviceReady() {
    window.screen.lockOrientation("landscape");
    alert("123");
}

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Can anyone please point me in the right direction on how to lock entire app into landscape permanently. Google has not helped me.
Thanks,
Primoz

Hello:

Although I have many skills outlined on my resume, I want to add another practical skill, in case my current skills become obsolete.

So, I have been toying with the idea of teaching myself Swift or some other iOS programming language in order to be able to create apps for the iPhone.

Out of the many new business skills a professional could learn, would this be the best?  

If so, how long does it take to learn and is it extraordinarily difficult?  Are there are good and free tutorials online that will successfully teach the lay person such a programming language?

Thanks!

John

As all "great" projects start, my wife asked me to build an app for their small teacher organisation. I'm new to development of IOS, but have worked in java, so I've made progress in getting up to speed with Swift and building up the framework of the app and getting it operational.

However, it dawned on me that I don't have an understanding of do's and don'ts when building a secure app. The books I've read focused on the UI more than the data itself. With the current project, I don't have risk that I need to worry about. But would like to use this app as a ginnie pig.  I'd like to know what are things I should be doing or adding into a iOS app to ensure it's secure and protected. I am not asking from a UI Pov (Apples KB documents provided me with that), but more on the lines of protecting the data if I was sending secure data from the app to a cloud DB (I.e. Firebase) or storing user profile or credentials in the apple "Core Data".