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Nicholas Solter in Posts from Emmerge

Apr 20, 2016

iOS Push Notification Background Download Demystified

While implementing push notifications, I found a lot of incomplete and inaccurate information out there about how background download works. I had to figure some of this out through experimentation, so in case it can help anyone else…

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Nicholas Solter in Posts from Emmerge

Oct 29, 2015

Implementing an OAuth2 login flow in WKWebView

Introduced in iOS 8, WKWebView is the much-improved (over UIWebView) view for rendering “interactive web content” in a native iOS app. One scenario where a web view comes in handy is a client-side OAuth2 login flow.

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Nicholas Solter in Posts from Emmerge

Jan 20, 2016

Meteor and iOS: Implementing a Native iOS App With a Meteor Backend

At first glance, building a native iOS app to run against a Meteor backend might seem foolhardy. The whole point of Meteor is to ease development of cleanly reactive web apps based on a tightly-coupled client and…

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Nicholas Solter in Posts from Emmerge

Oct 12, 2015

Xcode Deployment Configurations for iOS

Like all but the simplest mobile apps, the Emmerge iOS app that I’m currently writing communicates with a backend server. When it came time to share the first version of the app with my team, I wanted a quick way to build for staging or production. Which at…

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Nicholas Solter in Posts from Emmerge

Nov 12, 2015

iOS Dev Hack of the Week: Extending UITableView Cell Separators to Table Edges

The iOS UITableView default style extends the cell separators all the way to the right edge, but not all the way to the left edge. However, you, or your designers, might decide that your app…