27 July 2020 by Alberto Pasca on development, ios, macOS, mobile, swift, xcode

Swift – Identify misspelled words and errors in phrases

A simple tutorial for find and identify the wrong typed words of the user in your application using the UITextChecker framework and the NatualLanguage framework.

Final result:

14 June 2020 by Alberto Pasca on development, generic, ios, macOS, mobile, objectivec, swift, unit-test, xcode

Create your own XCode template

Very often you create a new class or a new view controller and customize it before start coding.

Every time you select from XCode, New File, the file type and add it to your project, like this:

1 March 2020 by Alberto Pasca on android, development, funny, generic, hack, ios, macOS, nodejs

Xiaomi Roborock – control via socket API

Why this guide?

My need was to control the robot asking simple commands through Google Home and Alexa like: “Alexa, clean the bathroom“.

With my robot, this was not possible. With the app, you can configure the zones but you can’t simply ask for cleaning only one zone, two times, for instance, all in automatic.

10 November 2019 by Alberto Pasca on development, macOS

Use multiple GIT accounts on same machine / macOS

The problem_

In my personal case I use three different git services for store / share my personal / work code:

Github // my blog code, free open sources code
Gitlab // my work code, on-premise installation
Bitbucket // my personal code, free private repo

Every service uses different SSH keys to use. Must be configured separately.

3 August 2019 by Alberto Pasca on generic, macOS, mobile, swift

SWIFT – Create filled array using map

A useful trick using .map:

24 July 2019 by Alberto Pasca on development, generic, macOS, objectivec, swift, xcode

XCode – Debug macOS PreferencesPane applications

You need to build a System preference panel extension for your app but you’re unable to debug it from XCode due to Apple System Integrity lock?

Let’s see how!

But how to debug this extension?

Latest macOS block the execution or the debug of all system application. Now all apps are signed and if you try to attach a debugger you’ll receive this error:

Message from debugger: cannot attach to process due to System Integrity Protection