A Passionate Technologists' Journal

Recently, I got to know few facts on how exactly Static Library(SL), Fat Frameworks(FF), Static/Dynamic Frameworks(SDF) actually works while I was working on a legacy code base which had a ton of all of the above stuff working altogether. This article is to log the few notes on the struggles we faced with having all these above things mixed up altogether with both Swift & Objective-C mixed up. Static Library(SL): Static Libraries was the initial(Way too Older now) way of code distribution where any project integrating the library would include .a file(Which contains the implementation classes) and all the header '.h' files separately along with the .a file in order for them to work in conjunction. Fat Frameworks(FF): Fat Frameworks are nothing but just the Static Library compressed as a framework, which was a means of distributing the code before Xcode6 when Apple introduced Static/Dynamic Frameworks(SDF). Static/Dynamic Frameworks(SDF): In Frameworks world,...

Recently, I got to work on the MapBox SDK for iOS. So, this is a short journal of my experience with it. Basically, it's a MapBox SDK based freehand drawing article. For those who are here for Google Maps based solution, then please refer this blog  which is again based on  this lib . This is not a Google Maps Vs MapBox debate as well, please make up your mind before starting up. [Note: Am not aware of the updates to the Google Maps SDK since 2015] So, let's start with what I've got to say. I've already created a Freehand Drawing(FHD, in short) tool, implemented way back in 2015, which was based on the Google Maps SDK, hence for MapBox based FHD solution, I was already 50% done. In the existing implementation, I have the touch detection and coordinates collection, polyline drawing & polygon drawing logics already implemented and in place, but all of them were using the GoogleMaps API's. So, the 2 main parts/API's that I'll need to look in M...