iOS & Android Development

App Transport Security is a feature that improves the security of connections between an app and web services. The feature consists of default connection requirements that conform to best practices for secure connections. Apps can override this default behavior and turn off transport security. All connections using the NSURLConnection, CFURL, or NSURLSession APIs use App Transport Security default behavior in apps built for iOS 9.0 or later, and OS X v10.11 or later. Connections that do not follow the requirements will fail. App Transport Security Technote When you are aware of the risks you can still completely disable ATS for your app by editing the Info.plist: [key]NSAppTransportSecurity[/key] [dict]     [key]NSAllowsArbitraryLoads[/key]     [true/] [/dict] To have a bit more of security you could define exceptions from the exceptions and apply ATS to specific domains only: [key]NSAppTransportSecurity[/key] [dict]     [key]NSAllowsArbi...

What are protocol buffers? Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages. Developers Google Protocol Buffers with Spring protobuf-swift An implementation of Protocol Buffers in Swift. Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. This project is based on an implementation of Protocol Buffers from Google. GitHub

Chris Wagner and the rest of the Tutorial Team have been digging into the tvOS SDK and are already hard at work preparing some tutorials on tvOS (stay tuned!), but to tide you over in the meantime, Chris Wagner wanted to share my initial impressions of tvOS from an iOS developer’s perspective. TVML Apps Custom Apps Ray Wenderlich Apple TV Markup Language TVMP Catalog Sample Code

AWS Mobile Hub AWS Mobile Hub is the fastest way to build mobile apps powered by AWS. It lets you easily add and configure features for your apps, including user authentication, data storage, backend logic, push notifications, content delivery, and analytics. After you build your app, AWS Mobile Hub gives you easy access to testing on real devices, as well as analytics dashboards to track usage of your app – all from a single, integrated console. Parse.com runs on AWS Amazon Video Parse.com Focus on creating amazing user experiences and forget complex infrastructure. Instantly add a powerful cloud database, push notification services, and analytics tracking to your app. Choose from over thirteen native SDKs for mobile, desktop, and IoT devices and discover all that Parse has to offer. BTW: Parse is dead :(

Carlos  is a small set of classes, functions and convenience operators to  realize custom, flexible and powerful cache layers  in your application. By default,  Carlos  ships with an in-memory cache, a disk cache and a simple network fetcher (disk cache and network fetcher are inspired by  HanekeSwift ). With  Carlos  you can: create levels and fetchers  depending on your needs, either  through classes  or with  simple closures combine levels transform the key  each level will get,  or the values  each level will output (this means you're free to implement every level independing on how it will be used later on). Some common value transformers are already provided with  Carlos Apply  post-processing steps  to a cache level, for example sanitizing the output or resizing images react to memory pressure events  in your app automatically populate upper levels when one of the lower leve...

Universal Links let your app register to handle HTTP/HTTPS links for your domain. So when a user clicks a link to your web site, say from an email or link on Twitter, iOS checks to see if your app said it can handle that URL. If it can, your app will open instead of Safari. Curtis Herbert

Reverse-Engineering iOS Apps: Hacking on Lyft Conrad covers many concepts & tools that can used to reverse-engineer existing apps, as well as debug other libraries and even your own code. He even demonstrates the art of reverse engineering on Lyft’s iOS app, injecting code into it and inspecting its network traffic. Using Conrad’s techniques, you can expose the code behind any app on the App Store. Reverse-Engineering Lyft (1:44) Peeking into Lyft (2:48) Inspecting Network Traffic - Charles Demo (4:08) Injecting Code into Apps - Cycript Demo (7:44) Decrypting Executables - dumpdecrypted Demo (11:28) Analyzing the Executable - IDA Demo (13:47) Finding Lyft’s URL Scheme (18:23) realm.io