Tag: ios
All the articles with the tag "ios".
Your Custom Lint Rule Works. Will Ten Teams Accept It?
A custom Android Lint rule takes an afternoon. Rolling it out to ten teams takes an owner, tests, a stable message, a baseline ratchet and a kill switch.
Which Mobile Testing Tool Do I Need? Ask the Boundary, Not the Platform
JUnit, Espresso, XCUITest, Maestro, Appium: a map of mobile test tools by the boundary they verify and the realism they need, with what Google and Apple say.
Realm Runs My Whole Chat App — So Why Does It Die in a 24 MB Notification Extension?
Realm crashes at init inside the iOS Notification Service Extension's 24 MB budget. The real causes — schema discovery, an encrypted page cache, cross-process sharing Realm only added in 2023 — and what Signal does instead.
iOS Has Six Ways to Run in the Background — Which One Actually Delivers My Message?
beginBackgroundTask, BGTaskScheduler, URLSession, silent push, PushKit, NSE — a decision guide to iOS background execution, tested against an E2EE messaging core.