NSUUID /CFUUIDRef /UIDevice -uniqueIdentifier /-identifierForVendor
Apple stopped letting apps use the unique device identifier, called UDID, from iOS 5 onwards. Apple blocked new apps using it after May 2013.
Development
Blog
Monthly update #0277 • May 2013
Monthly update 277 • May 2013 • 2013-05-01 - 2013-05-31
Monthly Updates
NSCoding / NSKeyedArchiver
Apple gives options like Core Data or NSKeyedArchiver with NSKeyedUnarchiver. These turn objects into data and back again.
Development
Monthly update #0276 • April 2013
Monthly update 276 • April 2013 • 2013-04-01 - 2013-04-30
Monthly Updates
MKLocalSearch
MKLocalSearch lets your app search for places (restaurants, shops, etc.) using normal language, all powered by Apple’s own data.
Development
NSSecureCoding
NSSecureCoding is a protocol from iOS 6 / OS X Mountain Lion. It adds the class method supportsSecureCoding.
Development
Monthly update #0275 • March 2013
Monthly update 275 • March 2013 • 2013-03-01 - 2013-03-31
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Borgen
Borgen is a Danish political drama series. It aired on DR1 with three seasons from 26 September 2010 to 10 March 2013. Adam Price created it. Sidse Babett Knudsen plays Birgitte Nyborg, a politician who becomes Denmark's first female Prime Minister by chance.
TV Series
Monthly update #0274 • February 2013
Monthly update 274 • February 2013 • 2013-02-01 - 2013-02-28
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NSAssertionHandler
In Objective-C, Foundation has macros like NSAssert for methods and NSCAssert for functions. They also have versions for parameters: NSParameterAssert and NSCParameterAssert.
Development
NSURLCache
NSURLCache is the built-in, automatic HTTP(S) cache used by NSURLConnection, NSURLSession (default/ephemeral configs), and WKWebView.
Development
Monthly update #0273 • January 2013
Monthly update 273 • January 2013 • 2013-01-01 - 2013-01-31
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NSValue
NSValue is the lightweight way to put any C scalar or struct (int, float, CGPoint, CGRect, NSRange, etc.) into an object so it can live in NSArray, NSDictionary, NSSet, etc.
Development
NSLocalizedString
NSLocalizedString is a macro in Foundation that gives a localised version of a string. It takes a key to find the string and a comment to help translators.
Development
Monthly update #0272 • December 2012
Monthly update 272 • December 2012 • 2012-12-01 - 2012-12-31
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KVC Collection Operators
The article discusses Key-Value Coding (KVC) Collection Operators in Objective-C, which provide a concise, Ruby-like syntax for performing aggregate operations on collections using valueForKeyPath:.
Development
Monthly update #0271 • November 2012
Monthly update 271 • November 2012 • 2012-11-01 - 2012-11-30
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A Wanted Man by Lee Child
In A Wanted Man, Reacher hitches a ride with kidnappers, then joins the FBI to pursue them after a roadside murder in Nebraska.
Books
NSOrderedSet
NSOrderedSet is not a subclass of NSSet due to problems with Objective-C's single inheritance and the mutable/immutable class pairs in Foundation's class clusters.
Development
NS_ENUM & NS_OPTIONS
NS_ENUM and NS_OPTIONS are the modern, Apple-approved way to declare enums and bit-masks.
Development
NSURLProtocol
NSURLProtocol is the most powerful (and least-known) piece of Apple’s URL Loading System.
Development
Monthly update #0270 • October 2012
Monthly update 270 • October 2012 • 2012-10-01 - 2012-10-31
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NSLinguisticTagger
NSLinguisticTagger offers powerful tools to process natural language. It breaks strings into tokens, finds parts of speech and stems, pulls out names of people, places, and groups, and spots languages and scripts.
Development
AddressBookUI
The Address Book UI framework in iOS, used alongside AddressBook.framework, provides controllers for managing contacts but includes a uniquely valuable function, ABCreateStringWithAddressDictionary(), which formats address components into a localised string.
Development
Monthly update #0269 • September 2012
Monthly update 269 • September 2012 • 2012-09-01 - 2012-09-30
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