iOS

According to Apple, “The basic requirement for any AR experience—and the defining feature of ARKit—is the ability to create and track a correspondence between the real-world space the user inhabits and a virtual space where you can model visual content. When your app displays that content together with a live camera image, the user experiences augmented reality: the illusion that your virtual content is part of the real world.”

At TestGrid.io, we love innovation and love to solve complex problems. Automated testing for an ARKit application is a complex problem and we are getting ready for it.

Apple has released a brand new innovative device that is very different from its previous generation devices. Here are a few things that every app development and test team should be aware of.

Screen Resolution

Features:
iPhone X is a 5.8” device with Super Retina display. The new screen resolution is 2436 x 1125 and it runs end to end.

What this means for testers:
This could potentially impact the UI of your app. The screen size, resolution and status bar at the top of the phone are totally different.

Code signing your app assures users that it is from a known source and the app hasn’t been modified since it was last signed. Before your app can integrate app services, be installed on a device, or be submitted to the App Store, it must be signed with a certificate issued by Apple.  At TestGrid we use real devices, so we must use the signed version.

Programming languages are used to give technological devices, like computers or smartphones, commands they can understand. Just like there are many different languages spoken all over the world, there are many different programming languages. Each language has both a unique syntax (terms that it understands) and a specific set of rules for ordering program instructions. Programming languages are commonly used by programmers to develop software programs, scripts, or other sets of instructions for computers to execute. In today’s post, we will be covering two languages, Swift and Objective-C, as well as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) they can be used with called Xcode.

This is a quick how-to on setting up your Network to stop sending the “Install Update Requests.”

Apple’s iOS updates can and may be auto-pushed (without your knowledge) to your iDevice, which is great if you’re into that sort of thing. Some users, however, may want to stay on an older iOS version for many reasons, but mainly because the decreased performance of the newer iOS versions on older iOS devices is a pain.