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Re: Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers

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Post by bsaul »

JSoto wrote: post #18
bsaul wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's the second time this week i hear about reactive cocoa.I'm starting to hate uikit with a passion, but what's so special about it ?

iOS engineer who worked on the Fabric app here :) I gave a talk about this topic at a Swift conference last year, if you wanna check that out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ent6LJDIB3I

hi, thanks for sharing. one question though : to me, the hardest and most convoluted api in cocoa isn't related to model handling but to the view : doing simple things like a tableview reload immediately followed by a scroll, or animation composition when updating data always is a problem because the way uikit elements work internaly is quite opaque ( and the fact that there are three orthogonal api to position a view don't help).

So the fact that reactive cocoa tries to hide the notion of state transition makes me wonder how you can then deal with UIKit views animations api ( collection flow animations or tableview begin updates, no to mention view controllers interactive transitions).

I've wondered if using a future based api for view animations wouldn't be a solution..

Re: Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers

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Post by micnguyen »

I'm an iOS Developer working on a project that uses Fabric ad I -absolutely- hate it. Maybe something is wrong with our integration, but I hate the fact that any run of the XCode build runs the Fabric Mac app and you HAVE to have it running, or else your XCode build fails. This doesn't help when your Fabric app crashes sometimes or isn't seen by Xcode for some reason, so every now and then my Chrome browser will just re-direct me to Fabric's website to download the SDK and I'll have about 20 tabs open before force quitting & relauncing the app. I like the idea of housing a lot of useful dev tools together, but hate having such a large overhead around it to do so.

Re: Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers

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Post by ProblemFactory »

micnguyen wrote: post #42

I'm an iOS Developer working on a project that uses Fabric ad I -absolutely- hate it. Maybe something is wrong with our integration, but I hate the fact that any run of the XCode build runs the Fabric Mac app and you HAVE to have it running, or else your XCode build fails. This doesn't help when your Fabric app crashes sometimes or isn't seen by Xcode for some reason, so every now and then my Chrome browser will just…

I'm using Fabric for the Twitter SDK on Android, and it is just the same there.

No, I don't want an IDE plugin that rewrites (read: messes up) my config files to "help" me install things. All I need is a website to generate API keys and a package URL to add to the dependencies file.

The IDE plugin must have taken quite a bit of effort as well - not sure why and how someone at Twitter considered it to be a good idea. Perhaps a misguided attempt at "capturing developer mindshare" or the arrogant assumption that Twitter/Fabric SDKs are important parts of people's apps?

Re: Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers

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Post by zwarag »

jhardcastle wrote: post #31
morninj wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also the name of a JavaScript HTML5 canvas library: http://fabricjs.com/

It's also, most confusingly to me, the name of Facebook's datacenter design. http://www.techrepublic.com/article/facebook-fabric-an-innov...

It's also the name of a brand selling yarn and buttons and stuff.

https://www.fabric.com/

Re: Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers

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Post by x1024 »

micnguyen wrote: post #42

I'm an iOS Developer working on a project that uses Fabric ad I -absolutely- hate it. Maybe something is wrong with our integration, but I hate the fact that any run of the XCode build runs the Fabric Mac app and you HAVE to have it running, or else your XCode build fails. This doesn't help when your Fabric app crashes sometimes or isn't seen by Xcode for some reason, so every now and then my Chrome browser will just…

Same. Is it that hard to just ship a library via CocoaPods? Google do it, Facebook does it. But nooo, Twitter is "speshul" and they just have to be able to drop multiple folders in the root of my project.

Re: Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers

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Post by x1024 »

dpflan wrote: post #4

Does anyone currently use Fabric? And if so, have you moved on to integrate MoPub Twitter-ad-network functionality? I'm curious how adoption has gone.

I am using Crashlytics, which got acquired and is now part of Fabric.io. For the most part, it's "use Crashlytics and pretend the rest doesn't exist".

Re: Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers

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Post by ropiku »

x1024 wrote: post #45
micnguyen wrote: post #42

I'm an iOS Developer working on a project that uses Fabric ad I -absolutely- hate it. Maybe something is wrong with our integration, but I hate the fact that any run of the XCode build runs the Fabric Mac app and you HAVE to have it running, or else your XCode build fails. This doesn't help when your Fabric app crashes sometimes or isn't seen by Xcode for some reason, so every now and then my Chrome browser will just…

Same. Is it that hard to just ship a library via CocoaPods? Google do it, Facebook does it. But nooo, Twitter is "speshul" and they just have to be able to drop multiple folders in the root of my project.

You can totally use CocoaPods to add and update Fabric https://docs.fabric.io/ios/fabric/cocoapods.html. I'm not sure if this still requires the Fabric app but I didn't have issues with it.

Re: Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers

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Post by stevewilber »

micnguyen wrote: post #42

I'm an iOS Developer working on a project that uses Fabric ad I -absolutely- hate it. Maybe something is wrong with our integration, but I hate the fact that any run of the XCode build runs the Fabric Mac app and you HAVE to have it running, or else your XCode build fails. This doesn't help when your Fabric app crashes sometimes or isn't seen by Xcode for some reason, so every now and then my Chrome browser will just…

Hey, I work on Fabric and we recently added some new pages that could help. If you have trouble using our plugins with your project, check out our manual onboarding process at https://fabric.io/kits/ios/crashlytics/install
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