So prior to getting into Swift, I spent most of my time coding in either Java or Javascript, and there is one Java method that I need to use from time to time at work and that is String.replaceAll. So naturally when I started coding in Swift, one of the things that I was thought about was, does Swift have a String.replaceAll method? Well Swift does have a replaceAll method, its just called something else i.e. String.stringByReplacingOccurencesOfString. So the name is fairly logical and does make sense, its just that my brain was wired to replaceAll, prior to coming across this method.
At some point the thought of adding a Widget to my iOS app came to mind which was followed by starting work on adding a widget for my app, My Day Todos . Obviously the first step was to learn how to add a Widget to an iOS app and in that learning process I discovered many things about widgets in iOS first of which was a widget in iOS is a an app extension i.e a Today Extension . While I am still haven't finished working on the widget for my iOS app, I thought I would take some time out and share what I have learned. In this post, I will share a few important tips and provide an example of how to add a Widget to an iOS app and have the widget UI powered by Html5 via Ionic framework . I added some code to my Github repo, Html5StarterAppWithSwift in order to show how this can be achieved. There are already too many tutorials out on the Web on how to add a Today extension to an iOS app so I won't be including that here. Instead I will focus on sharing some of the useful tip...
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