Objective-C Gets Blocks!
New to Objective-C is the block syntax. A block is a section of code that is grouped together and designed to be treated like one statement. Blocks also package up the lexical scope of variables and...
View ArticlejQTouch slide transition fix for Android 2.0
A client of Blazing Cloud recently wanted to support animated screen transitions in their mobile platform and came to us for help. We decided to integrate the latest jQTouch (version 1, beta 2) into...
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BieberFy
Here at Blazing Cloud we are happy to announce the launch of our first official product, BieberFy! BieberFy was inspired by Justin Bieber and the overwhelming response to his floppy teenage hair cut....
View ArticleKeys to iOS testing: KIF and Kiwi
Most recently Blazing Cloud iOS developers use these open source libraries: Kiwi for unit testing and KIF for acceptance testing. Kiwi is a BDD (Behavior Driven Development) testing library that...
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Show Test Coverage in Xcode
There is CoverStory – an open source utility that can show you test coverage for your XCode unit tests. The problem is that CoverStory requires you to pick correct directory where object files and...
View ArticleRubyMotion Block Scope Bug
As a Rubyist, there is not much that is more exciting to me than the idea programming iOS in Ruby. For that reason, I was excited to try RubyMotion (link). Unfortunately, in our experiments, we pretty...
View ArticleUploads got you Down?
Anyone who has attempted to perform a large HTTP file upload from a memory constrained device will quickly discover serious roadblocks. Using the HTTPBodyStream property of an NSMutableURLConnection...
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KIFTests talk
You can use iPhone speech synthesizer to announce runs of integration tests. Hear the sounds what will warm your heart every time. It shows that tests are working. Starting 13 test scenarios If you...
View ArticleEnterprise iOS Distribution
With an Apple Enterprise Account, iOS applications may be distributed without the tedious UDID provisioning required for iOS apps that are destined for the App Store. This lack of provisioning makes...
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iOS Enterprise: TestFlight vs. Web
TestFlight supports distribution of Enterprise apps using it’s standard invitation / team management process. This post compares the process of using TestFlight, with the process of using a web server...
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