Posts Tagged “Objective-C”

Greppability Is an Underrated Code Metric October 14, 2024
Dealing With Objective-C Protocol Types in Swift (1)October 7, 2024
Swift Concurrency and Objective-C (5)October 1, 2024
Swift’s AnyObject July 25, 2024
NSCopyObject, the Griefer That Keeps on Griefing (2)July 16, 2024
NSCopying in a Swift World July 15, 2024
Rounded Quick Look Corners (1)June 28, 2024
Swift at 10 (16)June 4, 2024
Swift Proposal: Objective-C Implementations in Swift (1)May 10, 2024
Run-time Polymorphism in Swift April 10, 2024
Is Objective-C BOOL a Boolean Type? (1)January 9, 2024
SpamSieve 3.0 (20)September 24, 2023
Objective-C Internals (1)August 10, 2023
A Vision for Using C++ From Swift June 2, 2023
CoverSutra Open Source (1)March 6, 2023
The Evolution of Facebook’s iOS App Architecture February 8, 2023
FORCEDENTRY Sandbox Escape via NSExpression November 20, 2022
Subclassing for Debugging (1)October 12, 2022
iOS 16 Text View Breakage (1)September 14, 2022
Confusing Swift Evaluation Order July 19, 2022
Blackbird: a Reference Architecture for Local-First Connected Mobile Apps July 7, 2022
Upgrading to a 14-inch MacBook Pro With a Studio Display (22)April 8, 2022
M1 Ultra Mac Studio Compilation Benchmarks (1)March 21, 2022
Objective-C Messages to nil (4)February 22, 2022
dsdump Beta February 9, 2022
Optionals in Swift Objective-C Interoperability (1)February 3, 2022
Clash of the Optionals January 25, 2022
An Approach for Migrating From Objective-C to Swift (3)January 13, 2022
The Surprising Cost of Checking Protocol Conformances in Swift December 31, 2021
Disabling Exception Breakpoint When Running Unit Tests December 29, 2021
Abrahams on the Design of Swift (13)December 10, 2021
Cocoa Culture December 6, 2021
BBEdit 14 (3)July 20, 2021
Concurrency in Swift 5 and 6: Data Races (7)June 14, 2021
Swift Overloads That Differ Only in Async June 14, 2021
Constant Literals in Objective-C June 9, 2021
How Uber Deals With Large iOS App Size May 31, 2021
Preventing Surprisingly Large Objective-C Type Encodings May 20, 2021
An Appreciation of Objective-C (2)May 13, 2021
Making NSFetchRequest.fetchBatchSize Work With Swift March 31, 2021
Be Careful With Obj-C Bridging in Swift (4)March 2, 2021
Brad Cox, RIP (1)January 25, 2021
Swift Concurrency Interoperability With Objective-C December 11, 2020
Rewriting the Uber App in Swift (11)December 10, 2020
Evolution of the Programming Languages From iPhone OS 1.0 to iOS 14 (9)October 19, 2020
Luna Display for Windows (5)October 7, 2020
Auto Linking in MachO-Explorer September 4, 2020
Objective-Rust August 27, 2020
Hopper for Apple Silicon and Big Sur July 27, 2020
Another Facebook SDK Crash (5)July 13, 2020
Optimizing the Objective-C Runtime in Big Sur (1)July 6, 2020
Reverse Engineering macOS 11.0 (7)June 26, 2020
plutil Enhanced in Catalina (1)June 9, 2020
InterposeKit June 1, 2020
Facebook SDK Causes Crashes (1)May 7, 2020
iWork 10 in WebAssembly (1)April 17, 2020
Resources for Learning Objective-C and AppKit (4)April 13, 2020
Contact Tracing (1)April 10, 2020
MarkdownAttributedString (3)February 27, 2020
KVO Reentrancy Canary February 12, 2020
Objective-C Quiz (6)February 6, 2020
NSErrorDomain, NS_ERROR_ENUM, and NSErrorUserInfoKey February 4, 2020
Behind the Scenes on Apple’s Aperture Team (8)January 30, 2020
Optionals in Swift Objective-C Interoperability (5)January 16, 2020
Project Zero Remote iPhone Exploitation January 10, 2020
ClassDumpRuntime and dsdump December 26, 2019
Slow Xcode 11 Objective-C Builds (2)November 26, 2019
Direct Objective-C Properties (4)November 19, 2019
iOS 13 and 13.1 (6)September 25, 2019
PrivilegedHelperTools and Checking XPC Peers (10)September 2, 2019
Malformed iMessage Could Cause iPhone Boot Loop (2)July 8, 2019
Software-ICs, Binary Compatibility, and Objective-Swift (1)March 12, 2019
Problems With os_log (10)March 6, 2019
When to Adopt Swift (11)February 26, 2019
Swift-ObjC Bridge Using @dynamicCallable January 31, 2019
Xcode 10.2 Beta Release Notes (1)January 25, 2019
NSMutableDictionary’s Practical Limit October 29, 2018
Xcode’s Alignment of Objective-C Dictionary Literals (3)October 24, 2018
New Objective-C Bridges (3)September 19, 2018
Open Sourcing Twitter Network Layer August 24, 2018
The PSPDFKit Story (1)August 10, 2018
Migrating an Objective-C Class to Swift: a Piecemeal Approach August 2, 2018
Objective-C Features That I Wish Existed (3)July 31, 2018
NSOnState Is Deprecated (2)July 2, 2018
On My Misalignment With Apple’s Love Affair With Swift (26)June 10, 2018
Smart Debugging March 13, 2018
First-Class Swift API for Objective-C Frameworks March 5, 2018
C String Functions in Swift: a malloc’y Story March 2, 2018
Google Libraries for Objective-C (14)February 28, 2018
C String Functions in Swift February 1, 2018
Key Difference Between Dictionary and NSDictionary (1)December 5, 2017
Selective Selector Mapping October 31, 2017
Cocoa Class Clusters October 6, 2017
Why Many Developers Still Prefer Objective-C to Swift (9)October 6, 2017
Decoding NSASCIIStringEncoding Is Not Strict (1)September 1, 2017
Protocol Composition in Swift and Objective-C (1)August 9, 2017
Using Static Frameworks to Speed Up Launching (4)August 4, 2017
Dissecting objc_msgSend on ARM64 July 25, 2017
Matching and Bridging NSErrors in Swift July 24, 2017
Google Tries Swiftify Converter (2)July 5, 2017
Porting Objective-C to Swift June 20, 2017
Even Swiftier Objective-C (1)June 14, 2017
WWDC 2017 Links (3)June 7, 2017
Swift’s Evolution June 4, 2017
Searching for Swift Objects by Type (1)May 15, 2017
foreach Using Objective-C Generics May 8, 2017
The Dangers of Using Nonatomic Properties May 2, 2017
Tail Call Elimination April 27, 2017
Naming Swift Extensions April 20, 2017
Avoiding Objective-C Class Name Collisions April 18, 2017
Debugging Swift Code in an Embedded Framework April 14, 2017
Automatic Memory Leak Detection on iOS (1)April 12, 2017
Analysis of the Facebook iOS App Bundle April 12, 2017
Swift 3.1 March 28, 2017
Reverse Engineering Stickies.app February 15, 2017
Swift and Objective-C Forever? (5)February 15, 2017
Chris Lattner ATP Interview (16)January 23, 2017
File Reference URLs Don’t Work in Swift 3 (3)December 2, 2016
Mulle-objc: a New Objective-C Compiler and Runtime November 27, 2016
Incremental Swift November 15, 2016
NSItemProvider’s NSSecureCoding Reflection November 9, 2016
Objective-C id as Swift Any November 7, 2016
Working Without a Nib (10)October 18, 2016
os_unfair_lock (2)October 7, 2016
Hopper 4 Announced (1)October 7, 2016
Unfortunate App Store Rejections (1)September 27, 2016
Error Handling Compared (3)August 29, 2016
Xcode’s “Copy Qualified Symbol Name” Command (5)August 16, 2016
Objective-C Class Properties July 1, 2016
Feet in Both Worlds: From Objective-C to Swift June 24, 2016
WWDC 2016 Links (3)June 15, 2016
Avoiding the Overuse of @objc in Swift June 6, 2016
Swifty Objective-C (1)May 31, 2016
Making Paw Extensible With JavaScript Core May 29, 2016
Dynamic Swift (17)May 21, 2016
Code Coverage From the Command Line With Clang (1)May 20, 2016
Some Static Analyzer Warnings Off by Default (1)May 10, 2016
Dropbox API v2 May 10, 2016
The GCD Handbook May 4, 2016
Modular Frameworks and Module Maps April 26, 2016
Swift Proposal: Mutability and Foundation Value Types (3)April 22, 2016
Performance Comparisons of Common Operations, 2016 Edition April 21, 2016
GPUImage 2, Redesigned in Swift (7)April 20, 2016
Comparing Reactive and Traditional (1)April 14, 2016
The Deep History of Your Apps April 3, 2016
Surprises With Swift Extensions March 25, 2016
Use and Misuse of NSUserDefaults (6)February 22, 2016
Concurrent Memory Deallocation in the Objective-C Runtime (1)February 12, 2016
Swift Mailing Lists Are Self-Selecting (4)February 11, 2016
Massive and Tiny View Controllers February 6, 2016
Swift Optimization Tips and Reference Counting February 3, 2016
BBEdit 11.5 January 29, 2016
Swift Named Parameters (3)January 20, 2016
The Unbugged Sessions Part 1 January 17, 2016
Better Translation of Objective-C APIs Into Swift (2)January 13, 2016
Craig Federighi on Swift (2)December 15, 2015
Swift’s Lazy Weak References December 11, 2015
Double Core Data Accessors by Omitting @NSManaged December 11, 2015
Variable Capture and Loops December 3, 2015
Favorite Terrible Programming Languages (2)November 30, 2015
A Look Into Realm’s Core DB Engine November 16, 2015
Nimble Matcher Framework November 16, 2015
The Java Deserialization Bug and NSSecureCoding (2)November 8, 2015
Shoot the Heap November 6, 2015
Dropbox API v2 Drops Objective-C SDK (2)November 5, 2015
Rewriting a Mac App in Swift November 4, 2015
Dynamic Frameworks and App Launch Times October 26, 2015
Adding “Save PDF to iBooks” Support (1)October 19, 2015
Swift Casting With _ObjectiveCBridgeable October 15, 2015
Empty Parentheses Are Not “No Parameters” in (Objective-)C (1)October 15, 2015
NSData, My Old Friend (1)October 11, 2015
Core Data in El Capitan October 7, 2015
Developing With 3D Touch (1)October 6, 2015
Swizzling With Swift September 25, 2015
Objective-C Is Our Generation’s COBOL (7)September 18, 2015
Swift 2 Generic Support for @objc Protocols September 18, 2015
Objective-C to Swift Converters August 31, 2015
The Facebook App’s 18,000 Classes (2)August 28, 2015
Safer Block-based NSNotificationCenter API August 26, 2015
[Objective] C++: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (2)August 23, 2015
Swift Funtime August 22, 2015
Making Tab-Switching and Scrolling Faster in OmniFocus for Mac August 22, 2015
Cross-Platform UI in GitHub Desktop August 21, 2015
GitUp 1.0 Is Open Source August 21, 2015
Generic “Functions” in Objective-C August 19, 2015
A Eulogy for Objective-C (4)August 18, 2015
Microsoft WinObjC (2)August 17, 2015
Dispatch Async to Main Queue and Modal Windows (2)August 15, 2015
Objective-Swift (3)August 13, 2015
Swift Protocols, Arrays, and Casting (3)August 3, 2015
The Appsmiths (2)August 1, 2015
Objective-C Improvements and Swift Interoperability July 31, 2015
Dixie July 30, 2015
UIKonf 2015 Videos July 30, 2015
NSValue and Boxed Expressions July 29, 2015
Dynamic Swift (9)July 23, 2015
Swift Protocols Question (6)June 22, 2015
WWDC 2015 Links (8)June 9, 2015
@weakify and @strongify Macros (1)June 1, 2015
How Not to Crash #7: Dealing With Nothing June 1, 2015
Network Request Templating May 29, 2015
How Not to Crash #3: NSNotification (1)May 23, 2015
ReflectableEnum May 22, 2015
How Not to Crash #2: Mutation Exceptions May 17, 2015
An @import-ant Change in Xcode May 14, 2015
Maybe, Just, and None in Objective-C May 13, 2015
Using Atomics to Get Rid of @synchronized May 12, 2015
Beyond Open Source May 6, 2015
Graduation May 5, 2015
Microsoft’s New Middleware: Islandwood and Astoria (3)April 30, 2015
Researching ResearchKit April 20, 2015
Infinite NSScrollView April 7, 2015
MustOverride April 6, 2015
XCTest: Areas for Improvement April 3, 2015
Preprocessor Abuse and Optional Parentheses April 3, 2015
Printing Objective-C Invocations in LLDB April 1, 2015
Why Overload Operators? (2)April 1, 2015
Zarra’s Core Data Stack (1)March 30, 2015
Instant Cocoa March 28, 2015
Replacing Photoshop With NSString (1)March 17, 2015
Let’s Build @synchronized March 11, 2015
Core Data vs. ARC (2)February 28, 2015
Swift 1.2 February 13, 2015
Building Swift Bindings to libgit2 February 6, 2015
GHRunLoopWatchdog February 2, 2015
Prefer Composition to Inheritance February 2, 2015
Weakness February 1, 2015
Categorical (14)February 1, 2015
Swift: No Macros, No Compromises (3)January 30, 2015
An Example on How to Use NSProgress (2)January 25, 2015
JavaScriptCore January 20, 2015
MMWormhole: Message Passing Between iOS Apps and Extensions January 18, 2015
Real World Swift January 17, 2015
Swiftifying Apple’s Framework APIs (2)January 14, 2015
Cocoa Thread Utilities January 14, 2015
Dependent Key Paths January 13, 2015
Finite States of America January 12, 2015
NSPPL: Persistent Property Lists (1)December 15, 2014
Fox: a QuickCheck-Inspired Testing Framework December 13, 2014
objc.io on Debugging December 9, 2014
Rewriting Robotics Software in Swift December 9, 2014
Objective-C Debugging Cheat Sheet (2)December 5, 2014
Rhapsody Developer’s Guide (1)December 2, 2014
Strange Tales of Swift Initialization (1)November 25, 2014
NSAtom, the True Object November 23, 2014
iOS IPC via NSFileCoordinator and NSFilePresenter (4)November 21, 2014
Tracking Down a WebKit Crasher (1)November 7, 2014
Playgrounds for Objective-C October 23, 2014
Lebeaupin on Swift (1)October 22, 2014
Patterns to Avoid Massive View Controllers (4)October 14, 2014
iOS App Postmortem (2)October 14, 2014
Hypothetical Objective-C 3.0 (4)October 14, 2014
Backtrace Album Released October 14, 2014
NSCoder, NSArchiver, and NSKeyedArchiver October 13, 2014
Running the Run Loop Until a Predicate Succeeds October 10, 2014
To Swift and Back Again October 9, 2014
The Source of Technote #2034 (6)October 8, 2014
Brad Cox Interview (2009) October 6, 2014
Objective-C Drops vtable Optimization (3)September 24, 2014
Xcode 6.0.1 Asynchronous Tests (3)September 18, 2014
Full-Text Search on iOS with FMDB September 16, 2014
An Introduction to Cocoa Bindings September 15, 2014
Swift 1.0 Performance and Compilation Times (4)September 13, 2014
RawOptionSetType September 8, 2014
FastCoding August 25, 2014
objc.io on Testing August 24, 2014
Swift and Debuggability (7)August 23, 2014
Contractually-obligated Testing (1)August 23, 2014
“It’s a Coup” (17)August 18, 2014
Core Data Editor Is Now Open Source (1)August 1, 2014
Flipboard Explorer July 26, 2014
List All Unprefixed Objective-C Classes for a Given SDK July 26, 2014
Carbon and Cocoa as a Metaphor for Objective-C and Swift (2)July 22, 2014
Jazzy (1)July 17, 2014
Introducing Realm (1)July 16, 2014
Swift and Cocoa Error Handling (13)July 13, 2014
Making Your Mac App’s Data Scriptable July 11, 2014
Swizzling and Touch Forwarding July 6, 2014
Swift and Inheritance (4)July 2, 2014
Compiler Writers Gone Wild: ARC Madness June 28, 2014
The Case for Message Passing in Swift (14)June 27, 2014
NSFetchedResultsController Stress Test June 23, 2014
Which Clang Warning Is Generating This Message? (2)June 18, 2014
Swift: Objective-C Without the Smalltalk (3)June 17, 2014
Instantiating Classes by Name in Swift (5)June 13, 2014
Metal June 6, 2014
CoreObject June 4, 2014
Tail Recursion, Objective-C, and ARC May 25, 2014
Why objc_autoreleaseReturnValue Differs for x86_64 and ARM May 21, 2014
Trapping JavaScript Errors May 20, 2014
Extended Type Info in Objective-C May 19, 2014
Autoreleasing Core Foundation Objects With ARC May 12, 2014
Aspects (1)May 6, 2014
Pop, the Animation Engine Behind Facebook Paper April 29, 2014
Unit Testing Asynchronous Cocoa April 26, 2014
Mapping XML to Objects With NSXMLParser April 26, 2014
NSNotificationCenter Is Not Thread-safe April 22, 2014
Tuples and NSError (1)April 16, 2014
Clean Up Your Projects With Xcode 5 April 10, 2014
Exposing NSDictionary (1)April 8, 2014
Adding ARC Code to a Project That Also Compiles for i386 (1)April 5, 2014
DateTools March 28, 2014
Hypo Dependency Injection Framework March 27, 2014
Exposing NSMutableArray (1)March 27, 2014
Zombies All the Time in Chrome March 27, 2014
Compiler Warnings Explained March 16, 2014
The Siren Call of KVO and (Cocoa) Bindings (2)March 16, 2014
Why objc_msgSend Must be Written in Assembly March 16, 2014
OptionBits and BOOL March 16, 2014
Making a Mockery with Mock Objects (1)March 13, 2014
Objective-Smalltalk (2)March 12, 2014
KVO Considered Harmful (9)February 21, 2014
Hopper Disassembler 3.0 (6)February 13, 2014
An Illustrated History of objc_msgSend February 12, 2014
Strings, Unicode, Localization, and Parsing February 10, 2014
Tales From the Crash Mines (1)February 8, 2014
Avoiding Massive Controllers February 7, 2014
Replacing the Objective-C “Delegate Pattern” With ReactiveCocoa February 5, 2014
ARC’s Fast Autorelease January 31, 2014
YapDatabase (3)January 31, 2014
Setting OmniGraphSketcher Free January 22, 2014
Common Init Method Name January 21, 2014
Associated Objects on Value Types (2)January 16, 2014
objc-run January 3, 2014
The Foundation Collection Classes (2)December 9, 2013
IBOutlets as Weak References November 22, 2013
NSNotificationCenter With Blocks Considered Harmful (3)November 20, 2013
Key-Value Observing for the Mainstream (2)October 29, 2013
Functional Reactive Programming on iOS October 19, 2013
Modern Receipt Validation (2)October 18, 2013
KSURLComponents October 15, 2013
Core Data Ensembles (3)October 2, 2013
Postmodern Programming September 29, 2013
iOS on arm64 Has Inline Retain Count in the isa (3)September 24, 2013
New APIs in iOS 7 September 23, 2013
FCModel September 17, 2013
Playing Sound Effects the Right Way September 13, 2013
Formatting NSInteger and NSUInteger September 12, 2013
ARC vs. MRC Performance (3)September 10, 2013
FMPSD (1)September 4, 2013
Cocoa NSError Conventions (8)August 28, 2013
NanoProfiler (5)August 21, 2013
From C Declarators to Objective-C Blocks Syntax August 21, 2013
Adding More Objective-C Literals to Clang August 14, 2013
OCFWebServer August 14, 2013
ReactiveViewModel July 30, 2013
API Smell: NSNumber July 24, 2013
Effective Objective C 2.0 (3)July 15, 2013
Objective-C Garbage Collection, in 1991 July 15, 2013
DBError July 13, 2013
Why Mobile Web Apps Are Slow July 9, 2013
On NSURLConnection API Design July 9, 2013
Low-Level Concurrency APIs July 8, 2013
New CocoaDev.com (1)July 3, 2013
Objective-C Literals and @compatibility_alias June 30, 2013
Anatomy of a Compiler Bug June 28, 2013
objc.io June 7, 2013
Getting Started With ReactiveCocoa May 22, 2013
Apple’s New Objective-C-to-JavaScript Bridge in WebKit May 15, 2013
UbiquityStoreManager May 11, 2013
Sharing Data Locally Between iOS Apps May 9, 2013
ArgumentParser May 9, 2013
Dealing With Core Data “Phantom Breakpoints” May 3, 2013
Auto Layout Shorthand (8)April 30, 2013
RXTraversal (1)April 23, 2013
The Concurrent Core Data Stack (2)April 18, 2013
Core Data and SQLite FTS April 15, 2013
Mac OS X Source Releases April 7, 2013
Algolia March 31, 2013
appscript on GitHub (3)March 28, 2013
JSErrorStackTrace March 21, 2013
Lazy Evaluation and Streaming With NSFastEnumeration March 16, 2013
Shebang Objective-C (4)March 16, 2013
Presenting BlockAssert March 14, 2013
Leak-Free Recursive Blocks February 28, 2013
NSEnumeratorLinq (1)February 27, 2013
RXCollections (4)February 16, 2013
Typhoon Dependency Injection Framework (4)February 13, 2013
Block Debugging February 6, 2013
Objective-C Blocks Quiz February 6, 2013
Properly Encrypting With AES With CommonCrypto February 4, 2013
S3-Uploader February 4, 2013
Objective-C Runtime Releases (1)February 2, 2013
Objection (1)February 1, 2013
Blocks, Operations, and Retain Cycles January 22, 2013
NS: Poor Man’s Namespacing for Objective-C January 22, 2013
JATemplate January 22, 2013
When Is id Promoted to instancetype? (2)January 22, 2013
__attribute__ January 15, 2013
OCMock Examples January 6, 2013
@property(weak) Isn’t KVO-Compliant January 6, 2013
Transitioning QTKit Code to AV Foundation (7)January 4, 2013
Parcoa: Objective-C Parser Combinators January 4, 2013
TICoreDataSync (4)January 4, 2013
Seven Deadly Sins of Modern Objective-C (2)January 3, 2013
mainthreadonly Properties December 24, 2012
Objective-C Pitfalls December 17, 2012
Object-Oriented Callback Design December 13, 2012
NSURL Path Handling (1)December 11, 2012
instancetype December 10, 2012
ARC Gotcha: Unexpectedly Short Lifetimes December 10, 2012
Objective-C and the Web (11)December 7, 2012
C and Objective-C Modules Proposal (7)November 30, 2012
NS_ENUM and NS_OPTIONS November 30, 2012
An Objective-C Literal Subtlety November 30, 2012
Objective-C in the Cloud November 9, 2012
CTBlockDescription October 6, 2012
__unsafe_unretained October 4, 2012
Optimizing Flood Fill September 29, 2012
Make Your Library Enforce ARC September 29, 2012
Theoretical and Practical Weaknesses of Objective-C September 15, 2012
Hacking Up an armv7s Library (3)September 14, 2012
J2ObjC (1)September 14, 2012
Block-Based Dictionary Enumeration Can Be Pretty Slow September 6, 2012
Zombies and ARC August 18, 2012
Growl, Notification Center, and Sandboxing (1)June 14, 2012
ReactiveCocoa (1)May 6, 2012
Objective-C Literals (9)March 21, 2012
MFIndexSetForeach Macro December 12, 2011
XPCKit (1)August 27, 2011
objc_msgSend_vtable (2)June 18, 2011
Automatic Reference Counting (5)June 15, 2011
Type-Savvy Logging Macro August 19, 2010
Copland 2010 Revisited (31)June 16, 2010
Comparison of Objective-C Enumeration Techniques (2)April 9, 2010
What I Miss From Java March 2, 2010
NSError** Is Hard (2)November 28, 2009
Dangerous Cocoa Calls November 13, 2009
Selector Uniquing in the dyld Shared Cache September 1, 2009
NSArray+Functional (4)January 15, 2009
Abstracting Away From Exceptions (4)January 6, 2009
Unit Testing Roadblocks (3)August 3, 2008
NSXReturnThrowError (3)January 7, 2007
Cocoa foreach Macro (8)July 15, 2006
Faux Collection Class Subclassing (1)March 17, 2006
Cocoa Enumeration (3)December 8, 2003
Keychain Framework August 3, 2003
Iterators March 30, 2003

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