Rollout to Prevent Private API Usage, Enforcing App Store Guidelines.
Rollout’s mission is to bridge the disconnect between developers and their live apps. With Rollout, developers can instantly deploy code-level changes to native iOS apps in production, allowing mobile companies to...
Rollout Under The Hood – 2016 Update
Over a year ago, we published an article on how Rollout works under the hood. Since then we’ve improved and optimized our technology quite a bit, adding features like JavaScript based patches. This is an...
iOS App Development: From Noob to Ninja
This article describes the path to iOS development enlightenment, or at least becoming a developer who’s in demand 🙂 . It starts with where to learn the basics and goes into some ninja level topics...
iOS Databases: SQLLite vs. Core Data vs. Realm
If you want to make a great app that runs fast and just works (no bugs allowed) you’ll have to think about all development aspects of your app carefully. One of the aspects you must figure out is how to store and...
Update Native iOS Apps without the App Store. How is this Legit?
How can Rollout allow you to push code-level updates to live iOS apps and be fully compliant with Apple’s guidelines? Glad you asked. Our lawyers asked me to let you know that this isn’t legal advice, but you...
Try Rollout – Get a Free Tshirt
Rollout is giving away free T-shirts. Nothing to buy, no strings attached. Rollout loves mobile developers so much that we want you to have one of our shirts when you try us out. So signup now, create a patch and...
iOS Crash Reporting Tools – 2016 Update
A few years ago, there was an incredibly thorough (read: settle in, this is going to take a while) examination of the top options for iOS crash reporting, written by Cesare Rocchi on the Ray Wenderlich site. He...
iOS 9, 7 Upgrade Pitfalls – A Post From The Future
Every OS version change comes with its own set of problems; developers use the new deployment target when releasing a new version of their application and then when it reaches their users, it crashes, freezes or...
The Dark Side of NPM
For long time I have been a fan of npm for its simplicity. I’m custom to the work with Java ANT (yes, that old…) and Maven projects with their complex deep dependency tree that is why I found the simple, flat...
Don't be a Tool. Use a Tool.
If you’re reading this, then you’re either developing a mobile app, planning to, or in the mobile app development business. But what is developing? Developing is the implementation of an idea, and the reason you’ve...
How Long Does the Apple Review Process Take?
What’s the most frustrating part of launching an iOS app? It’s a question I get all the time, and as a surprise to some, my answer has nothing to do with app development, testing or even user adoption. Instead,...
It's Time to Forget Mobile App Rollbacks
The app development process can be a bit of a roller coaster ride. You release a version of your app, users love it and everyone is happy. You add new features and intro a bug. The app starts acting wonky and...
Requesting an Expedited iOS App Store Review
Whoever coined the term “waiting game” clearly wasn’t an iOS app developer. As I explained in a previous post, the average iOS approval process usually takes between 5 and 10 days; nothing fun or game-like about...
Mixing camelCase with underscores in ObjectiveC
I’ll start with a quite common example. Let’s say we have a custom view class – SideBarView, which requires a delegate. So let’s create a protocol for it: @protocol SideBarViewDelegate - (void)...
Mobile App Patching in Production (Yes, It’s Possible)
I like to think of bugs in a mobile app like typos on a billboard. They’re embarrassing, they’ll be seen by thousands of people and they can severely damage any mobile venture. You want to get them fixed as soon as...
Nested BackboneJS Models
My relationship with Backbone.js is complicated. We have spent a dozen of hours together, full of entertaining and deep conversations (into late night hours). I was really impressed, excited by its simple...
Objective-C: properties vs ivars
Do you use properties or instance variables to store something inside an object? Let’s understand what is better and when. I think the subject is much less arguable if it’s about getting/setting some data from...
Stop all indentation, TDD from religion to pragmatism
Decoupling responsibilities is the most important part of your design, I have seen so many snippets of code that do not delegate responsibilities and create code that is not ready to be scaled. A good system is...
Developer – get a better keyboard, or how I replaced mine to improve productivity
I came up with the idea to write the post about choosing the best keyboard for development after struggling a lot with the keyboard I’ve got recently when joined Rollout.io team. When I was asked what kind of...
Constants in objective-c, a macro that keeps you DRY
“There aren’t any small programming problems only small programmers”, I don’t know if this sentence is even true just wanted to have a grand opening to my blog post, which is covering what is usually...
