Ugh – iTunes Connect is really annoying to use when it comes to screenshots. There’re some third party tools out there, but it was still too hands-on for my workflow.
So I wrote a little script that does the stuff I want. I have a Sketch document that exports all the screenshots, and the script updates the iTunes Connect metadata XML appropriately.
In case it’s useful to anyone else:
Usage:
Work on screenshots
Setup:
alias iTMSTransporter="/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/Application\ Loader.app/Contents/MacOS/itms/bin/iTMSTransporter"
Grab latest ITMS data:
iTMSTransporter -m lookupMetadata -u [email protected] -p password -vendor_id APPVENDORID -destination YourApp.itmsp
Open up the metadata.xml and remove the fields you don’t want to change – this is probably going to be the currently-live version, and maybe the product info at the bottom.
Export all the screenshots into the itmsp package folder
Run this tool (update_itmsp_screenshots.php YourApp.itmsp)
Check that everything looks okay
Verify
iTMSTransporter -m verify -u [email protected] -p password -f YourApp.itmsp
Upload
iTMSTransporter -m upload -u [email protected] -p password -f YourApp.itmsp
I’m often having to grep through various iOS frameworks in search of error codes that appear (“What the bloody hell does -10867 mean?”). This can be a bit annoying – especially while working with Core Audio – so I put together an Alfred workflow that does it for me.
Here it is – type “hs” (short for “header search”) then the text you want to search for, and it’ll give you matching results. Hit enter to open that file:line combination in Sublime Text, or edit the action script to work with the editor of your choice.
Search Xcode Header Files.alfredworkflow
Here’s a couple of Alfred 2 workflows that implement encryption and decryption via AES256, useful for doing things like sharing passwords.
Select some text (or copy it to the clipboard), and hit the encryption hotkey, and you’ll be prompted for a password; the encrypted contents will be copied to the clipboard.
Then when the recipient has the encrypted text, select or copy it, hit the decryption hotkey, and the original password will be requested. Then, the original text will be displayed and copied to the clipboard.
I’m a really big fan of Alfred, and lately I’ve found it really useful for running tiny little snippets of code — whether it’s to quickly URL decode a string, or remind myself of how C integer-to-float conversion behaves, I find myself using these little extensions I put together quite frequently.
Here’re two workflows I use to run PHP code (one which just executes it and shows the result in Growl, and one which copies the result to the clipboard), and a workflow that runs a snippet of C code. Of course, it wouldn’t take much to make workflows for many other languages, too.
Now with live results! Hit enter to copy result to clipboard.
Execute PHP Code.alfredextension
Execute PHP Code, Copy Result.alfredextension
Here’s a cute little Alfred extension I put together today that uploads a file to a TestFlight team for you, after prompting for build notes.
You’ll wanna edit the extension to put in your API key and Team ID, then just select a file in Alfred, type ‘testflight’ (or an abbreviation thereof) and enter, then enter a build summary, and off it goes. Result will appear in Growl.
Upload to TestFlight.alfredextension
I noticed that WordPress these days uses a shortcode to define image captions, of the form:
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="630" caption="Image title goes here"]<img src="http://domain.com/imgpath/../image.jpg" width="630" height="420" />[/caption]
I’ve recently redone our blog template at Technomadics, and while setting up the new preview template in MarsEdit, thought I’d take a stab at implementing support for captions, too, via some javascript in the template.
I was successful! Here’s how I did it:
Added the following to the “head” section:
<script type="text/javascript"> var prior_content; function watch_for_changes() { var check = function() { var elt = document.getElementById('content'); if ( elt.innerHTML != prior_content ) { elt.innerHTML = apply_filters(elt.innerHTML); prior_content = elt.innerHTML; } setTimeout(check, 100); }; setTimeout(check, 100); } function apply_shortcode(source, name, callback) { return source.replace(new RegExp('\\[' + name + '\\s*([^\\]]*)\\]((.|[\s\n])*?)\\[/' + name + '\\]', 'g'), function(match, paramString, content) { params = new Object(); reg = /([a-z]+)="((:?="[^"]+"|[^"])*)"/gi; while ( (match = reg.exec(paramString)) != null ) { params[match[1]] = match[2]; } return callback(params, content); }); } function apply_filters(html) { html = apply_shortcode(html, "caption", function(args, content) { return '<div '+ 'class="wp-caption ' + (typeof(args.align) != 'undefined' ? args.align : '') + '" '+ 'style="width: ' + args.width + 'px;">' + content + '<p class="wp-caption-text">' + args.caption + '</p></div>'; }); return html; } </script> |
…changed to ‘body’ tag to…
<body onload="watch_for_changes();"> |
…And wrapped a div around the main “#body#, #extended#” content with an id of content:
<div id="content"> #body# #extended# </div> |
Basically, it polls the content area for changes, and when triggered, runs it though a filter. The above is extensible, and by adding additional “apply_shortcode” calls from “apply_filters“, more shortcodes can be simulated.
Local Continuous Integration Setup With Git Post-Commit Hook Script
I have lots unit tests, but I don’t have a Continuous Integration server setup, and I sometimes forget my tests are there.
I know. Bad me. I was up late last night getting some failing unit tests to pass again, after forgetting I even had unit tests. Ugh. This would have been much easier if I knew I’d broken a test when I broke it; as it was, I had to go back and try to remember what I was working on when they broke!
So, to stop that happening in the future, I fiddled around with my local repository and whipped up a script that automatically runs tests in the background, on a separate temporary cloned version of the repository.
If build or tests fail, I get a nice little Notification Center message which I can click to see a report and build log. Then I can fix it and amend the commit as necessary.
It’s a script that’s invoked by a Post-Commit git hook, and it’s run in the background using nohup so it doesn’t make me wait and mess with my workflow. It just all happens transparently in the background.
Here’s how I did it.
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