Apple Releases iOS 9.2: 6 Handy Features Included In The Update

Apple has released lots of updates today, including things like the new iPhone battery case and Apple TV to include Siri. Last but main update release is iOS 9.2.

The new operating system brings a number of improvements to iOS, including some pretty big improvements to Apple Music and iBooks.

These are the features that especially stands out in update:

Via @ Forbes

netfox - A lightweight, one line setup, network debugging library

Source @ Github

A lightweight, one line setup, network debugging library that provides a quick look on all executed network requests performed by your app. It grabs all requests - of course yours, requests from 3rd party libraries (such as AFNetworking or else), UIWebViews, and more.

Very useful and handy for network related issues and bugs.

Flex - An in-app debugging and exploration tool for iOS

FLEX (Flipboard Explorer) is a set of in-app debugging and exploration tools for iOS development. When presented, FLEX shows a toolbar that lives in a window above your application. From this toolbar, you can view and modify nearly every piece of state in your running application.

Source @ Github

Material Design Floating Action Button in liquid state

LiquidFloatingActionButton is floating action button component of material design in liquid state, inspired by Material In a Liquid State. This is also spinner loader components in liquid state.

Source : @GitHub

You can play a demo with appetize.io

fastlane - iOS Automation for Continuous Delivery

fastlane lets you define and run your deployment pipelines for different environments. It helps you unify your apps release process and automate the whole process. fastlane connects all fastlane tools and third party tools, like CocoaPods and xctool.

fastlane tools, a collection of iOS app continuous deployment and integration tools

Source @ Github

Inside Code Signing

If you have ever developed an application for iOS, you have probably fought with code signing or device provisioning at some point. Even as an OS X developer, you cannot avoid signing your code anymore, at least not if you want to be on the Mac App Store or are part of the Developer ID program.

A Great article Explains how code signing works, and what it actually does here.

Prephirences - a Swift library

Prephirences is a Swift library that provides useful protocols and convenience methods to manage application preferences, configurations and app-state.

Source : @ Github