Hello World! Little Jonathan’s First Reverse Engineering Before I was knee high to a grasshopper as a kid in Minnesota my dad, a mechanical engineer by education, did a bad, bad thing he would occasionally regret. He taught me how to take things apart… When I was a few years old, I approached my grandfather […]
Tutorial: iOS Reverse Engineering Part II: class-dump & Hopper
- Jul 2, 2015 9:25 pm
- Written by Jonathan Saggau
In the previous tutorial you used LLBD to gain insight as to whether and how you might become the delegate of UIWebView‘s scrollView while learning some tips and tricks for using LLDB to discover how to insert code into the UIScrollViewDelegate methods of the UIWebView without getting in the way of Apple’s implementation of the […]
Rate Limiting UITableView and UICollectionView Reloads
- Jun 19, 2015 11:39 pm
- Written by Dillan Laughlin
UICollectionView and UITableView are workhorse classes on iOS. As UICollectionView and UITableView contents become more complex and dynamic in your iOS apps it can prove difficult to maintain UI state and performance, especially when dealing with dynamic layout in UICollectionView or variable row height in UITableView. Oftentimes, the simplest code path is to simply reloadData. […]
Smithsonian Channel app Wins Webby Award!
- Apr 28, 2015 9:12 pm
- Written by Vas Kottas
The Smithsonian Channel app that we’ve built on iPhone and helped to enhance on iPad has won a 2015 Webby Award for People’s Voice in the Education & Reference category. Congratulations to Potion Design and Smithsonian Channel for this prestigious honor!
Dothraki Companion is the #1 Paid Entertainment App in the App Store!
- Oct 15, 2014 6:48 pm
- Written by Vas Kottas
We’re excited to announce that the Dothraki Companion app we developed for Random House has reached #1 in Paid Apps in the Entertainment category! Here’s some recent coverage of the app: Huffington Post – New ‘Game Of Thrones’ App Will Make You Fluent In Dothraki Before Winter Comes NBC News – Conquer Dothraki with ‘Game […]