Intermission 3
May 7, 2020, 4:02 PM
Activate the Secret Menus.Now that you know we have secret features for debugging and testing, let’s consider how to activate them when we need them. But first, let’s go over a few larger issues.Should There Be Secret Features...
Settings 108
May 6, 2020, 1:21 PM
The Secret Menus.Unlike the Secret History of Procopius, our Secret Menus are not going to be an attack on the Emperor Justinian, his entourage or anyone else. They will be revealed instead as a series of tools and displays that will help...
Settings 107D
May 5, 2020, 11:41 AM
Your Device.The last row in the Info, Privacy & Settings section is Your Device. While you might think this would be the end of our discussion of Settings, it’s not. There’s more to come: at the end of this story we’ll open an...
Settings 107C
May 4, 2020, 4:20 PM
Send Us Feedback.This is another easy one. If you have a support e-mail address, in our case
[email protected], you’ve got everything you need.Tapping on the Send Us Feedback row in the Info, Privacy & Support section displays...
Settings 107B
May 1, 2020, 4:02 PM
Privacy Policy.This is an easy one. Once Apple started requiring a privacy policy accessed via URL for all apps, you had to do all the necessary content work.Privacy Policy in action.Tapping on the Privacy Policy row in the Info, Privacy...
Intermission 2
Apr 30, 2020, 2:36 PM
About that Git version…Keeping track of what you are doing is important. The larger the team, the more important it becomes. There are two identifiers for a specific build of an app, we’ll call them the version and the build number.We’ve...
Settings 107A
Apr 29, 2020, 8:01 AM
About This App.From the Info, Privacy & Support section of Settings, we’ll now look into About This App — a collection of information useful for problem solving, and perhaps satisfying the curiosity of a few users and other...
Settings 107
Apr 28, 2020, 8:31 AM
Info, Privacy & Support. Everything else goes here.After the three major sections of Options, Permissions, and Purchases, we’re down to the rest of the story. Our last section could be called “Et Cetera”, and probably should be called...
Settings 106
Apr 27, 2020, 8:01 AM
How to display in-app purchases and check for previous purchases.Like Permissions, almost all the work associated with displaying, purchasing, and restoring in-app purchases can be placed in a shared framework, in our case the LUX...
Settings 105
Apr 24, 2020, 8:01 AM
PermissionsWe all like free stuff. We’d all love to provide an excellent Settings experience while doing as little work as possible. Surprisingly enough, you can do that with Permissions!Build it the lazy way.One of the best parts of...