Create a Cocoapods of your library
CocoaPods is a Dependency Manager tool written in Ruby for iOS and Mac projects. For the people who already know about RubyGems, this library is a port of RubyGems to Cocoa. Is very useful to prevent...
View ArticleSmooth and custom animations in iOS
Animations are cool. They add some magic to our app, and sometimes make it viral. But they also add functional features. Few weeks ago I read an article on medium by Pasquale D’Silva where he explains...
View ArticleUnit Testing in iOS and TDD
This post is about Unit testing in iOS. And Unit testing consists in creating code that checks the functionality of your code. TDD says: 1. Program the tests. 2. Program the code that is tested. This...
View ArticleViewOverlay and animations in Android
ViewOverlay is a class that we can find in Android since its version 4.3 (API version 18) that provides a transparent layer on top of a View, to which you can add visual content and that does not...
View ArticleTravis CI TV mode
This week we have started using Travis CI in Lafosca. We have been looking for a service or extensions that made Travis CI visible in a TV like a control panel of all our projects but we didn’t found...
View ArticleAndroid Face Cropper
Some months ago, while we were developing Dulceida’s app, we realized that most of its photos didn’t show its face after cropping the image to obtain a squared one, so we needed some mechanism to...
View ArticleLFSCoreData: Core Data Management and Mapping Library
LFSCoreData is an iOS and MacOSX open-source library to help you to start using Core Data Framework. This library will help you on managing your application database, saving in background and perform...
View ArticleLFSAskForReview: Rate iOS apps library
LFSAskForReview – Rate iOS Apps Library: Example in FXStreet App LFSAskForReview is a class that you can add to rate iOS apps easily. Its main features are that it doesn’t ask the user to rate app...
View ArticleRSS Push Notifications using Parse
Recently we have moved our apps to Parse and one thing we wanted to do is to send RSS Push Notifications. This way we can notify using Push Notifications every time we publish a post in our blog....
View ArticleIntroducing Hacksboard for Github, a pull request tracking tool
There has been a recurring problem here at Lafosca that any tool could solve at all: we needed a way to track all the pending pull requests and their status. Guys, I’ve just pushed some iOS stuff for...
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