nsurl

What is the correct way to handle stale NSURL bookmarks?

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After a lot of disappointing testing I’ve come to the following conclusions. Though logical, they’re disappointing since the resulting experience for users is far from ideal and a significant pain for developers depending on how far they’re willing to go to help users re-establish references to bookmarked resources. When I say “renew” below, I mean … Read more

Url minus query string in Objective-C

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Since iOS 8/OS X 10.9, there is an easier way to do this with NSURLComponents. NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@”http://hostname.com/path?key=value”]; NSURLComponents *urlComponents = [[NSURLComponents alloc] initWithURL:url resolvingAgainstBaseURL:NO]; urlComponents.query = nil; // Strip out query parameters. NSLog(@”Result: %@”, urlComponents.string); // Should print http://hostname.com/path

Retrieve filename from NSURL

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The code below should work. Updated it so I removed the top statement. I could’ve used NSString vs const char * or std::string from C++ but thought C Character Pointers would be quite appropriate for this case in point. Also revamped this so it’s in it’s own concise function: -(NSString*) extractFile:(const char*) url { NSURL … Read more

Initializer for conditional binding must have Optional type, not ‘String’

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The compiler is telling you that you can’t use an if let because it’s totally unnecessary. You don’t have any optionals to unwrap: URL is not optional, and the absoluteString property isn’t optional either. if let is used exclusively to unwrap optionals. If you want to create a new constant named url, just do it: … Read more

UILabel and NSLinkAttributeName: Link is not clickable

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I can answer my own question now: I am using UITextView instead of UILabel now. I have formatted the UITextView to look and behave like my labels and added: UITextView *textView = [[UITextView alloc] init]; textView.scrollEnabled = NO; textView.editable = NO; textView.textContainer.lineFragmentPadding = 0; textView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, 0, 0); textView.delegate = self; Don’t forget … Read more

Swift: save video from NSURL to user camera roll

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AssetsLibrary is deprecated 1: import Photos import Photos 2: Use this code to save video from url to camera library. PHPhotoLibrary.sharedPhotoLibrary().performChanges({ PHAssetChangeRequest.creationRequestForAssetFromVideoAtFileURL(nsUrlToYourVideo) }) { saved, error in if saved { let alertController = UIAlertController(title: “Your video was successfully saved”, message: nil, preferredStyle: .Alert) let defaultAction = UIAlertAction(title: “OK”, style: .Default, handler: nil) alertController.addAction(defaultAction) self.presentViewController(alertController, animated: … Read more

NSURL with string

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Your problem is the unescaped spaces in the URL. This, for instance, works: NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@”tel://1234567890×101″]; Edit: As does this.. NSURL *url2 = [NSURL URLWithString:[@”tel://1234567890 ext. 101″ stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

How to convert NSURL to String in Swift

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It turns out there are properties of NSURL you can access (see Swift Reference): var directoryURL: NSURL var urlString: String = directoryURL.absoluteString // OR var urlString: String = directoryURL.relativeString // OR var urlString: String = directoryURL.relativePath // OR var urlString: String = directoryURL.path // etc.