Issue 53

News

Avoid security risks with iTunes Connect scraping services

Marco Arment with the great suggestion not to give the keys to the entire kingdom to services which only need to access sales data. File this one under "Why did no one think of this before?".

Cheddar for iOS is Now Open Source

This week saw Sam Soffes release the entire iOS client source code for his very recently released Cheddar to-do app under an open source license. I often hear people who are new to iOS development wishing to have a look through a full project (with Core Data, RESTful API access, etc..) just to understand how a real world app is built and this is going to be a great resource which provides exactly that.

Tools

7 Great iOS and Mac Developer Podcasts to Learn from Today

Rob Bazinet with a nice round up of the best Mac/iOS developer podcasts which are floating around at the moment. If you are a fan of podcasts and subscribed to this list then I am sure there will be something here for you.

Code

FilterKit

FilterKit is an open source project for adding Instagram style filters to images on iOS. This is just one of many open source projects created at last week's iOS Dev Camp in San Jose and it is really encouraging to see projects like this come out of community events.

Automatic Property Synthesis with Xcode 4.4

I do love this feature of Clang which is now available to us in Xcode 4.4. Keith Harrison gives a nice overview of how to take advantage of automatic synthesis in Xcode 4.4 and also a couple of situations where it doesn't work towards the bottom of the article.

NSHipster

Mattt Thompson has started this beautifully named site which is intending to take a different overlooked Objective-C class each week and explore it a little. He only has four classes covered so far but I really like the style of this so I would put it on the list of ones to watch.

I had completely forgotten about nil targeted actions

Remember the responder chain? This tip from Joachim Bengtsson is a good reminder that the responder chain exists on iOS.

Design

FutureFolio - Design of a Content Creation Tool

Paul Hudson of Future publishing talks about their iPad app which they use to build their digital publications. This is a slightly unusual link for here as this is pretty much a training video on how to use this app but I found it a fascinating look at how they tackled some of the design problems with a complex content creation tool so I am sure some of you will as well.

Good design is invisible: An interview with iA's Oliver Reichenstein

Sam Byford for the Verge interviews Oliver Reichenstein, creator of the wonderful iA Writer app for Mac and iOS about the progress of the app so far, designing for the Retina display (I love that they revisited the font design for Retina) and why they created an iPhone version.