When I open a URL (like this http://webserver/index.php/feeds/1.2/3.4/5/1000/) in my app via Xcode I get a nil JSON string returned. It doesn't even seem to be talking to the server. The exact sam...

I have a URL coming in to the AppDelegate method: func application(_ application: UIApplication, open url: URL, sourceApplication: String?, annotation: Any) -> Bool { } The URL looks like www...

Currently I'm able to trash selected user files. The question is how to know whether the volume of that file supports trashing. For example, external USB sticks just have a local trash folder, whil...

I'd like to load an image from a URL in my application, so I first tried with Objective-C and it worked, however, with Swift, I've a compilation error: 'imageWithData' is unavailable: use object c...

I've been trying to use Corona SDK's Facebook API to post the score on the game I'm developing on facebook. However, I'm having a problem with it. During the first time I try to post to facebook, I...

I know that I can deep link into the Settings page on iOS via UIApplicationOpenSettingsURLString. However, this takes me to a page such as this: Now if I want the user to enable notifications, t...

I think I don't understand the concept of "baseURL". This: NSLog(@"BASE URL: %@ %@", [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.google.es"], [[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.google.es"] baseURL]); Prin...

I have a variable videoURL of type NSURL. If I call println(videoURL) it would return something like this: http://files.parsetfss.com/d540f71f-video.mp4 I have a button set up that should take th...

I have a URL in an iPhone application to work with. But the problem is that it has some spaces in the URL. I want to replace the spaces with '%20'. I know that there are the stringByReplacingOccure...

I have converted the code for making a phone call from Objective-C to Swift, but in Objective-C, we can set the type of the URL that we like to open (e.g. telephone, SMS, web) like this: @"tel:xx"...

I am making a music app with swift. The app lets users play music through their Apple Music subscription via their Apple Music app. I am able to check whether the user has an Apple Music subscripti...

- bookmarkDataWithOptions:includingResourceValuesForKeys:relativeToURL:error: Documentation states: This method returns bookmark data that can later be resolved into a URL object for a file ev...

I am using AFNetworking in my iOS app and for all the GET requests it makes, I build the url from a base URL and than add parameters using NSDictionary Key-Value pairs. The problem is that I need ...

Here is a fun issue I'm running into after updating to Swift 2.0 The error is on the if let url = URL.absoluteString line func myFormatCompanyMessageText(attributedString: NSMutableAttributedStri...

Can I somehow do a synchronous HTTP request via NSURLSession in Swift? I can do an asynchronous request via the following code: if let url = NSURL(string: "https://2ch.hk/b/threads.json") { let ...

With all the URL-handling objects lying around in the standard Cocoa libraries (NSURL, NSMutableURL, NSMutableURLRequest, etc), I know I must be overlooking an easy way to programmatically compose ...

Imagine this simple example of two paths on macOS: /etc/hosts /private/etc/hosts Both point to the same file. But how do you determine that? Another example: ~/Desktop /Users/yourname/Desktop O...

I have long been using +[NSURL fileURLWithPath:] because it's convenient, but in profiling I found that this was a source of bottlenecks because it queries the filesystem before calling down to +[N...

let testurl = "http://akns- images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2018029/rs_1024x759- 180129200032-1024.lupita-nyongo-angela-bassett-black-panther- premiere.ct.012918.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto" ...

In earlier versions of macOS, NSURL instances constructed from a security-scoped bookmark would have an ?applesecurityscope=... query string tagged onto the end of them. I was checking for this in ...

it may be very easy, but I don't seems to find out why is URLWithString: returning nil here. //localisationName is a arbitrary string here NSString* webName = [localisationName stringByAddingPerce...

This is how I add query params to a base URL: let baseURL: URL = ... let queryParams: [AnyHashable: Any] = ... var components = URLComponents(url: baseURL, resolvingAgainstBaseURL: false) componen...

So I have converted an NSURL to a String. So if I println it looks like file:///Users/... etc. Later I want this back as an NSURL so I try and convert it back as seen below, but I lose two of the ...

I need to load an image from a url and set it inside an UIImageView; the problem is that I don't know the exact size of the image, then how can I show the image correctly?

I am creating an app, and I have a banner which promotes my other app. This is my code: var barsButton : UIButton = UIButton(frame: CGRectMake((self.view.bounds.width / 2) - 51, self.view.bounds.h...