I want to create an in-app setting view like the following image:
What are these fields called? and what is the best way to create settings?
I found many tutorial but all of them are referring to creating the settings page in the phone settings, using the setting bundle and what I want is creating settings page in the app itself.
Both http://www.inappsettingskit.com and http://inscopeapps.com/#inappsettings both use the standard Settings.app bundle. So you have the ability to set defaults in your app AND in the standard Settings.app. They're simple enough to add your project and work pretty well.
If you only want the settings to be in the app, then your screen shot simply shows a standard UINavigationController with UITableViews. You can create something like this in the standard ways using Interface Builder or programatically, and then respond to any changed settings by saving NSUserDefaults objects/integers/booleans/URLs.
Whichever method you choose, add an observer for NSUserDefaultsDidChangeNotification in any views that need to respond instantly to the change (you can simply read the current value of the NSUserDefaults objects/integers/booleans/URLs in real time if you don't need something to respond instantly).
Try using In App Settings Kit.
Can be found here: http://www.inappsettingskit.com
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Push notifications have been left out of tvOS (understandably so) but the docs seem to contradict themselves in alerting users to the fact that there is something new available in your tvOS app.
Here it seems to say that you can add an app badge: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/tvos/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/RemoteNotificationsPG/Chapters/WhatAreRemoteNotif.html
Here it says they've been removed from UIKit: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/tvos/releasenotes/General/tvOS90APIDiffs/Objective-C/UIKit.html
Removed UIApplication.applicationIconBadgeNumber
Assuming the badge approach is not supported in this release, does anyone know the best practice for alerting a user that there is new content in your app without the user taking an explicit action? ie focusing on the app and showing them something in TopShelf?
I encountered the same problem and dived into this. Probably your best way is to update the topshelf with latest items, which is my way to solve this for now. You can use network calls to update the topshelf with content from your backend.
This depends on the type of application. E.g. showing the latest top movies for a movies app.
You can trigger an update of the topshelf after your network call completed using the following code:
NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().postNotificationName(TVTopShelfItemsDidChangeNotification, object: nil)
Make sure to implement the TVTopShelfProvider which should be clear using the following documentation:
This protocol is adopted by the principal class of an app’s TV Services extension. Apps that implement this extension can provide dynamic content to the Top Shelf element rather than having the system use the static image submitted with the app. The topShelfStyle property specifies the interface style you want, and the topShelfItems property specifies the content items to display. Whenever you change the content provided by the extension, post a TVTopShelfItemsDidChangeNotification notification to prompt the system to reload your content.
Icon badges are removed for app icons, push notifications as well (except for silent push notifications).
I am developing a SandBoxed Cocoa Application. I have successfully implemented the Launch at login feature by using the Core Foundation function:
SMLoginItemSetEnabled
I have based the implementation on This tutorial
But now I need a way to determine if my app is set to be launched at login, so that I can show the button in the appropriate position upon launch. I would expect a similar Core Foundation function to find out if a bundle identifier is on the list of login items, but I didn't find it.
Another problem is that, by using this Core Foundation approach, although it is recommended by Apple, my app is still inconsistent with the "Open at Login" tick in my application dock menu.
You can do it using the functions in the LSSharedFileList.h header, which is in LaunchServices.framework, which is in CoreServices.framework. As far as I can tell, Apple hasn't documented this stuff except in the header comments, but that's probably enough. The basic outline is that you first create a LSSharedFileListRef using the function LSSharedFileListCreate for the list type kLSSharedFileListSessionLoginItems. Then copy a snapshot of the list (which is a CFArrayRef) using LSSharedFileListCopySnapshot. Then for any item in the array, you can get its URL using LSSharedFileListItemCopyResolvedURL. That last function requires Mac OS X 10.10 or later, while I think the others date back to 10.5.
By the way, the docs on SMLoginItemSetEnabled say that it's for setting an embedded helper app as a login item, but it sounds like you're talking about a freestanding app.
Apple's sandbox documentation says:
With App Sandbox, you cannot create a login item using functions in the LSSharedFileList.h header file. For example, you cannot use the function LSSharedFileListInsertItemURL.
But maybe you can still use the shared file list functions on a read-only basis.
I am new in Xcode and IOS development.
i have designed and finished my app and i connected with Parse for push notification and core data.
the problem is what i didn't understand is: if in future i want to change the background of my app or add new event or to change the palace of button my app, how can i do that? i have to rebuild and submit it again or there is any way to do by online a website like parse?
i couldn't find the answer any where, help please...
Thanks ,
If you had designed your app to load the background data from Parse, then you could just put the new background on Parse and your app would load it. There is no need to submit a new app to do that. If you did it this way, you'd want to have a default background in the case when the network is not available.
You can't add new code to your application with this method (that is not allowed), but you can add data such as images, text, etc. The key point here is that you have to design your app from the start to work this way, then it is simply a matter of putting the new data on Parse where your app can find it.
Expanding on #vacawama's very good answer:
For this version you are out of luck, since it sounds like you did not design it to use a background that is loaded from your Parse server.
What you need to do is to code an update to your app that has these new abilities, and submit that to the app store. Once that version is approved then you should be able to change the background from the server.
I am using CLLocationManager to find the location.The first time that I run the app for mistake I didn't allow the app to use the current location.
So every time the delegate gets notified through the locationManager:didFailWithError selector.
I tried to make a clean build and to delete the project folder in derived data, but it still doesn't ask me to use the current location.
I would make possibile to re-select through that panel if I would use the location, how is that possibile?
You have to delete the application from the simulator or phone and then run another build onto the device.
I hope I understood you correctly, if I think that this is not a coding issue:
If you are on iOS6, you'll have to allow location services for the app at
Settings > Privacy > Location Services.
For more info, see Apple's documentation here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5467?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
I am not sure this can be done at all...
Background: I am constructing an in-house application which means it does not get into appstore so i am not limited by the appstore guidelines.
I have a dylib which loads before the main application. It is a kind of augmenting library for applications. I am using the constructor __attribute__ to load my stuff. In there i would like to put an alertview or any kind of popup which will receive a user/password question. If the password is correct than the user is allowed to continue into the original application.
Since this is in the dylib i do not yet have a UIApplication and i do not want to interfere in the original application or sources.
Suggestions, tips are welcome...
Thanks.
This is how i've done very similar thing in my application:
0) Intercept applicationDidFinishLaunching message, add your own code, run original implementation.
1) Make opaque fullscrean UIWindow (for example, black).
2) Set its windowLevel to UIWindowLevelAlert + 1 So it hides every other window in app.
3) Add fields for user and password to this UIWindow.
I'm pretty sure you can't show a UIAlertView without having initialized the UIApplication and UIWindow instance.
Only the iOS itself can show alerts outside the application, for example when it asks for permissions or in case of iTunes or game center login ...
As a workaround you can:
make a login view inside the application
create a web application for the login process. The web app could launch the native app with a custom URL scheme and pass parameters like 'user' and 'password' to the app.
You should create a View for the Login then if you pass the login you can go on using the app otherwise you just make the app shut itself.
You could start a thread when loading your dylib and make it listen for your UIApplication to become available, then display the alert on the main thread.