In 2017, Apple introduced new Machine Learning (ML) frameworks in iOS 11 — Core ML and Vision — that make it easy and intuitive for developers to incorporate ML models into their apps, improving the speed, power, and overall experience for users. As a developer on the internal mobile app team at Capital One, I wanted to try out […]
I recently came across a bug in one of my iOS apps due to NSDateFormatter’s handling of a user’s 24 Hour clock setting on their iPad. The app automatically synchronizes a series of objects to the user’s device when the app launches. Typically, the sync service will get the max LastModified from each of the […]
Our IT office at the Department of State is in the process of transitioning the majority of our mobile users from BlackBerry devices to iPhones and iPads over the next month. In preparation for the upgrade, our customer support team developed a frequently asked questions (FAQ) document that contained several tips and tricks to help […]
Recently, the Public Affairs office at State.gov released the Select State.gov Data API, which exposes several datasets that are published and routinely updated on State.gov. When I heard about the API, I was really excited that the State Department would be publishing portions of the official travel data for the Secretary and began thinking of […]
A friend of mine, Molly Moran, is in the process of building a new iPhone app to track hunt clubs (as in fox hunting!). One of the features that she wants to implement is a UITableView that lists nearby clubs based on the user’s GPS location. She has a database of all the clubs in […]
Last week, I wrote about Drew Crawford’s analysis of the elements affecting the poor performance of mobile web apps. In my post I noted that performance issues for my own mobile web app project were related to a large number of elements inserted into the DOM and the resulting memory footprint rather than pure JavaScript […]
