by Marc Maset
One thing is clear when launching a Product: timelines will change. To handle all these changes with ease, MarsManaged now includes Dynamic Date parsing*. Just type the target date in your own words and MarsManaged will do the rest. Here it is in action: Here’s some examples of keywords you can use: today (i.e. Did John send …
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Today I’ve been working on sorting tasks, as I’m using swiftUI and CoreData I use a FetchRequest with the following SortDescriptor: NSSortDescriptor(keyPath: \Task.targetDate, ascending: true) The idea being it will sort based on the task due date from smallest to the largest, meaning you’ll see the ones you should act on first at the top. …
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For the upcoming app I’m working on I need a way to easily detect dates the user may have typed at the end of a line. It was time to re-visit old faithful regex. After lots of readings and tests I ended up settling on this beauty: “.*[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}” Here’s what it does: The …
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Although users interact with NewsWave on their iOS and -soon- Mac, some features are provided by a server. So, how can I let users know when the server triggers certain tasks? If they are triggered at regular intervals you can simply calculate on the device how long until it will be triggered again. This reduces calls …
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This is a very quick one. For an app I’m working on I wanted to measure how long it took a given function to complete. I typically don’t do this, as most functions are very fast, but this one involved a server fetch and some background processing. Anyhow, I’m getting distracted, here it is -easy …
Just a quick update to show how to get Date Day, Month or Year in Swift 3 //Here I’m creating the calendar instance that we will operate with: let calendar = NSCalendar.init(calendarIdentifier: NSCalendar.Identifier.gregorian) //Now asking the calendar what month are we in today’s date: let currentMonthInt = (calendar?.component(NSCalendar.Unit.month, from: Date()))! //Now …