I’m maintaining two constants files in my app where in which one file contains all the constants defined using #define and other file contains all the constants defined using:
static NSString const *holidaysearch = #"holidaySearch"
Basically I use them for forming the URL for server calls. Our app is already in app store. So in a update to my app that I published last week I have made changes to both constant file by modifying the values only.
For e.g.:
static NSString const *holidaysearch = #"getholidaySearch"
(When means in real time in my app I have changed a url). But when user is updating the app and running the app the constant is still referring to the old value (i.e holidaysearch) due to which we are facing some issues. But it's working fine when the user is installing latest version directly. So is there any concept of iOS caching the constants file while updating the app or anything else needed to be done? Suggest me fix for this.
I would start by changing all of your #define constants to NSString * const. Also, static NSString const *holidaysearch should be static NSString * const holidaysearch. Here's an explanation as to why.
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To start, here is my code:
var buffer = malloc(interop.sizeof(interop.types.UTF8CString));
var fillBuffer = mac.getBytes(buffer);
var bytes = new interop.Reference(interop.types.UTF8CString, buffer);
var hexMac = bytes[0];
The variable 'Mac' is an NSData objected retrieved from CoreBluetooth. It is the scan response from a BLE device, which contains the peripheral's MAC address (00:0b:57:a2:fb:a0).
This problem is linked to THIS question I had posted earlier.
The solution provided is great; however, I cannot seem to implement this in nativescript :
(instancetype)stringWithFormat:(NSString *)format, ...;
Intellisense tells me the method doesnt exist on type NSString.
Due to that issue, I decided to go another route (as you can tell). I am filling a buffer with the bytes of the MAC address. In the code above, bytes[0] equates to 0xb57a2fba0.
I am now trying to convert that (which is an interop.Reference) into a string that I can store on the back-end (preferably in the xx:xx:xx:xx:xx format).
I have been at this all weekend, and cannot seem to find a solution. I even broke down objc!foundation.d.ts to figure out if stringWithFormat was supported, to no avail.
The nativescript community slack was unable to provide a resolution as well.
Please help if you can!
I don't know anything about NativeScript at all, but given the other code you wrote, I assume you're calling +alloc first, and so mean to use -initWithFormat: (an instance method that initializes) rather than +stringWithFormat: (a class method which handles allocation and initialization).
How can I get notifications count of another app into my app by using SpringboardServices and SBSPushStore?
I'm trying to show notification count taken from whatsapp into my app so I was searching around and one thing is for sure that it is possible but I didn't find any approbate way on how to do it.Here is the question which answers it but I didn't get it. How to do it? Can someone please share the step by step procedure.
Based on the question I was able to find the code which can actually lock you iphone using SpringboardServices but I don't know how to use it for SBSPushStore?
void *SpringBoardServices = dlopen("/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SpringBoardServices.framework/SpringBoardServices", RTLD_LAZY);
NSParameterAssert(SpringBoardServices);
mach_port_t (*SBSSpringBoardServerPort)() = dlsym(SpringBoardServices, "SBSSpringBoardServerPort");
NSParameterAssert(SBSSpringBoardServerPort);
SpringBoardServicesReturn (*SBSLockDevice)(mach_port_t port) = dlsym(SpringBoardServices, "SBSLockDevice");
NSParameterAssert(SBSLockDevice);
mach_port_t sbsMachPort = SBSSpringBoardServerPort();
SBSLockDevice(sbsMachPort);
dlclose(SpringBoardServices);
The answer to that linked question you commented on implies that you don't need any framework, as long as your device is jailbroken.
You simply load the plist file located at /var/mobile/Library/SpringBoard/applicationState.plist. The format of that answer is a bit broken, but I assume the > are meant as indicators to explain the inner structure of the file (i.e. key values).
So from that I assume it's a dictionary, you can load it by
NSDictionary *plistFile = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:#"/var/mobile/Library/SpringBoard/applicationState.plist"];
NSDictionary *entryForYourApp = plistFile[#"com.app.identifier"]; // obviously you have to use the identifier of whatever app you wanna check
NSInteger badgeCount = entryForYourApp[#"SBApplicationBadgeKey"];
You probably want to inspect the file yourself first (so set a debug point) and make sure its structure is like I assumed, the types are correct and so forth (not to mention it exists, Apple sometimes changes stuff like that and the other question is already several years old).
In general be aware that you can only do that, as said, on a jailbroken device. Otherwise your application simply doesn't have reading access to the path /var/mobile/Library/SpringBoard/applicationState.plist. Or to anything outside its sandbox, for that matter.
I am trying to update my app for WatchKit and I save a NSKeyedArchiver file to the NSDocumentsDirectory normally.
With updating to app groups I need to store it in the app groups folder. The issue I am having is I cant figure out how to just get the path, and not have it referenced as a file I am looking for.
The way it is set up now is to find the file it gives the path as a NSString
/Users/ME/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/43F/data/Containers/Data/Application/5E/Documents/fav
but when I store to app groups, no matter which way I access the folder, it is returned
file:///Users/ME/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/43F/data/Containers/Data/Application/5E/Documents/fav
What is the best way to just obtain the path to the shared group, rather than have the app looking for the direct file?
So coffee deprived me had forgotten about the .path for filemanager.
NSURL *fileManagerURL = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] containerURLForSecurityApplicationGroupIdentifier:#"group.com"];
NSString *tmpPath = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", fileManagerURL.path];
NSString *finalPath = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#",[string stringByAppendingString:#"/Favourites2"]];
I was running into the same problem. I was going through the whole process of building a string to my save location and now I'm switching over to app groups and using the
NSURL *fileManagerURL = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] containerURLForSecurityApplicationGroupIdentifier:groupID];
Well, the problem is, now instead of a string to the location that starts with "/Users/yourname/Library..." you get "file:///Users/yourname/Library..."
Here's what I did. I created the NSURL. Then I called absoluteString on it.
NSURL groupPath = [[fileManager containerURLForSecurityApplicationGroupIdentifier:groupID] absoluteString];
I now have a string that I need to strip off the first 7 characters of, then my old code works just fine, except now instead of being in the Documents directory, it's in a shared app group that can be accessed by both my old code and my new watchkit extension.
Here's the code to strip off the first 7 characters (index 6 since you start with 0), you should be able to use either method...
NSString *newGroupPath = [groupPath substringFromIndex:6];
or
NSString *newGroupPath = [groupPath substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(6, [str length]-6)];
This just removes the "file://" from the absoluteString that was made from the NSURL and gives you back your older string path the starts "/Users/YourName/Library/Developer/yada yada yada"
Hope that helps you, I have spent 4 hours figuring it out.
It seems to work for me on the simulator, I haven't tried it on the Watch yet. But at least my app is now working the way it was before, just saving the data in a shared app group. (I have a singleton that manages all of my data throughout my app, and I want that same singleton to provide data to my watch app).
I am trying to send commerce transaction data to google analytics on iOS with V3 SDK. I am building the data dictionary using GAIDictionaryBuilder class provided by Google (which is not open source unfortunately). For both createTransactionWithId and createItemWithTransactionId calls, my NSNumber values (revenue, price, etc.) are failing to be added to dictionary data properly. Here is the sample code:
NSMutableDictionary* test = [[GAIDictionaryBuilder createTransactionWithId:(NSString *)transactionId
affiliation:(NSString *)affiliation
revenue:(NSNumber *)revenue
tax:(NSNumber *)tax
shipping:(NSNumber *)shipping
currencyCode:(NSString *)currencyCode] build];
NSLog(#"revenue: %#", revenue);
NSLog(#"TR data: %#", test);
// if I explicitly set the value, IT WORKS!!!!
[test setObject:revenue forKey:#"&tr"];
NSLog(#"TR data FIXED??: %#", test);
In the output, I see revenue correctly, then when logging test dictionary I see the following line corresponding to revenue data:
"&tr" = "<null>";
Then, for the manual fix attempt, I see
"&tr" = "15.25";
as expected.
Here are some clues:
I use the same code in a different project compiled in a different OSX machine without any issues like this.
The transactions are in TRY (Turkish Lira), I suspect Google is trying to fix the separator (',' in Turkish vs '.' everywhere else), but as said above, the other app is also using TRY.
So the question is, why "<null>", why and how does it fail to convert a proper NSNumber to this bizarre value?
Eventually, I fixed the issue by working around it. I assigned the NSNumber to a new one (by getting its floatValue) and it seemed to fix the null values.
By the way, google analytics library version 3.07 readme mentions a similar issue as fixed however neither 3.03 nor 3.07 actually fixed my problem.
It seems that they have deprecated the Phonegap variable DeviceInfo as of Cordova 1.5 (I think I saw that it was technically deprecated for 1.5 as well, but left it in). I know there is the device variable, but I was using the DeviceInfo variable to store some of my own data via the callback to
- (NSDictionary*)deviceProperties{...}
It seems that function is still called for the var device data, but it doesn't let me add any data to that variable. Does anyone know if there is anyway to get back the functionality of having custom device data or is it gone forever?
OK so the workaround I came up with was to simply create the variable myself in a javascript call so that the rest of the javascript code still access it as needed. I etd a catagory to override
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated;
and in the implementation I called the following code
NSString* jsString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"window.DeviceInfo = {param1:%#, param2:%#}}", param1, param2];
[self.viewController.webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:jsString];
That added code allowed for backward compatibility with code based on the editable DeviceInfo variable that has been removed.