iOS Dev Weekly

Actually, Rollout is compliant with Apple guidelines. More details here: https://rollout.io/blog/updating-apps-without-app-store/

I'm not going to argue regarding the potential security issues of using a solution like Rollout or CodePush, but I do think Apple should have done a better job at communication.

Dave Verwer from iOS Dev Weekly said it much better than I can:

"We still only have anecdotal evidence on what has actually happened and while that continues both the creators of these tools, and the developers who are using them are left in this difficult/impossible situation of not knowing what's going to happen to their apps. It'll probably take a couple of weeks to see full impact of this, and I really feel do for you if you have an app that's being affected by the changes.

People build businesses on the App Store and to have the possibility of changes like this being enforced with zero notice after years of them being fine on the App Store is completely unacceptable in that situation. If this change is intentional (which we can only assume it is) then it should have come with a detailed description of what's happening and a notice period to give app owners a chance to react and continue to run their apps.

Apple can definitely do better at handling situations like this.

Dave Verwer"

Taken from https://iosdevweekly.com/issues/291#start

FYI, I work for Rollout

Here are some great resources for learning iOS:

[1] Online courses:

http://www.hackrocket.com

http://teamtreehouse.com/

http://www.lynda.com/iOS-tutorials/iOS-SDK-Essential-Training/92179-2C.html

http://itunes.apple.com/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-development/id473757255

http://codelesson.com/courses/tag/Mobile

[2] Blogs/tutorials:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#referencelibrary/GettingStarted/RoadMapiOS/Introduction/Introduction.html

http://www.raywenderlich.com/

http://cocoawithlove.com/

http://mattgemmell.com/

http://mobile.tutsplus.com

[3] Books:

Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

iPhone Programming : The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Cocoa Design Patterns

iPhone App Development : The Missing Manual

The iOS Developer's Cookbook

Cocoa Design Patterns

Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK

[4] Forums/Q&A

http://stackoverflow.com

http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/

[5] Videos

http://www.youtube.com/user/MilmersXcode?ob=0&feature=results_main

[6] Email newsletters

http://tinyletter.com/hackrocket

http://iosdevweekly.com/

http://iosdesign.co/

Are people using Azure Mobile Services happy with it? I watched the first NSScreencast on it, and it just seemed to introduce so much complexity. If I wanted to manually configure SQL tables, I'd make my own backend. Parse on the other hand was extremely well documented and required 0 server or database knowledge.

Edit: Personally I don't find Azure marketing all that interesting, but they have been doing a great outreach effort. In addition to DF, they've two sponsored NSScreencasts and the latest iOS dev weekly newsletter.

http://nsscreencast.com/episodes/59-windows-azure-mobile-services

http://iosdevweekly.com/issues/90/?utm_source=iOS+Dev+Weekly&utm_campaign=75c2d6c937-iOS_Dev_Weekly_Issue_90&utm_medium=email

Since Google Reader shut down, I've basically switched my behaviour to subscribing to sites via email and especially looking out for good curated weekly emails.

Here are my favourites at the moment:

iOS Dev Weekly : https://iosdevweekly.com/

Data Science Weekly : http://www.datascienceweekly.org/

Clojure Gazette : http://www.clojuregazette.com/

Ruby Weekly : http://rubyweekly.com/

Green Ruby : http://greenruby.org/

Founders Cabin : http://founderscabin.io/

SaaS Weekly : http://hiten.com/issues/

Also, shameless plug, I just started a weekly newsletter about Machine Learning, Data Science, Data Engineering:

http://datacoder.aidanf.net/

I'll add a few of my favourites:

- iOS Dev Weekly (https://iosdevweekly.com/)

- Little Bites of Cocoa (https://littlebitesofcocoa.com/)

- objc (https://www.objc.io/)

- NSHipster (http://nshipster.com/)

- NSBlog / Friday Q&A from Mike Ash (https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/)

- This Week in Swift (https://swiftnews.curated.co/)

- Erica Sadun (http://ericasadun.com/)

- Quality Coding (http://qualitycoding.org/)

- Use Your Loaf (http://useyourloaf.com/)

- Swift Monthly (http://swiftmonthly.com/)

- Cocoa, Objective-C and Swift programming News aggregator (https://twitter.com/cocoadevblogs)