Archive for November, 2010

Automatic Build Versioning in Xcode with Subversion

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

For awhile, I had wanted to include the svn revision number in my iOS app, and when I came across a blog post by Daniel Jalkut from a few years ago, I thought I had found an answer. No sooner than I implemented his script, though, did I discover that Apple doesn’t allow build numbers in iOS app packages.

I still really wanted this information in my dev builds so it would be easier to keep track of what version I was working with, so wound up I made a number of modifications to the script to make it suit my needs:
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GPSTrack 2.0 released

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Today, the first major update to GPSTrack, my iOS GPS tracking application, made its way to the App Store, now with support for the iPad (WiFi + 3G).

I didn’t make too big a fuss about the 1.0 version, knowing it would have the sort of annoying bugs that every 1.0 release has, and while 2.0 still doesn’t have all the features I wanted — I severely underestimated how much time adding iPad support was going to take, and some of which I hope to blog about soon — I’m pretty happy with the improvements I’ve made so far, but now that 2.0’s released, I can actually get back to adding new functionality.