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date formatter

Working on formatting the date in Xcode, and you come across the situation where you need to check or test the date format.  NSDateFormatter is a great site to check your date format string.  I wanted to transform the 2019-08-15 10:34:49+1000 to Aug 15, 12:34 AM.

Number decimal places

Adding a floating decimal point for n number of places is quite easy to achieve.  The key to understand is the receive an outcome of a fraction the numbers need to be Double.  So Int numbers will result in a whole number product.  By way of example:

  • 80 / 3 = 26

We know that this result is incorrect.  To get the correct outcome the equation needs to be as follows:

How to programmatically change the app language without restarting the app

iOS localization on the fly

If you have added languages to your app... shortly afterwards you'll be getting yourself knee deep in changing the language on the fly.  Followed by the question – how do you change the language of the app without having to restart the app?  To change the language of the app there are a couple of key steps involved:

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