AskIt iOS Universal Questions Answers App Template Swift

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iOS Android and Web versions can share the same database on back4app 14 Apr 2020 Updated design for all the screens according to new iOS design techniques to improve the usability of users Applied watermark design to listing screens of albums users etc Updated the code to support iOS 13 features and update security permissions in info plist file Integrated the code to support the iOS dark mode feature Xcode 11 support also integrated Implemented Apple login 3 Sep 2019 Improved the design of login and signup screens with newly added views and color contrast with the background also added circular corners of buttons Fixed the login issue with Facebook Improved the list views with rounded corners of views and added color contrast Improved the lists of home and search screens with color contrast and newly added views also improved the height of the attached image on each item Improved the design of edit profile screen and account screens by adding shades and color of views in the background 28 Jule 2018 iPad compatibility implemented 25 May 2018 Accordingly to the new EU GDPR terms I ve updated the tou html file and Documentation IMPORTANT This means that if a User asks for his her Account deletion you must do it within 24 hours as the GDPR s Right to be forgotten Article states LINK https gdpr-info eu art-17-gdpr 17 May 2018 Adjusted the layout of the QuestionCell of the Home and Search controllers in the Storyboard by moving the Attachment Button behind the Question TextView and enlarging it Edited the cellForRow atIndexPath method in Home swift and Search swift in order to see a preview of an image for those questions that have an attachment 24 April 2018 Replaced AdMob banners with Interstitial code in Home swift Search swift and Answers swift Adjusted the bottom edge of the views in their relative controllers in the Storyboard Changed AdMob variable in Configs swift let ADMOB_INTERSTITIAL_UNIT_ID ca-app-pub-3940256099942544 1033173712 Changed Likes system by adding a new column of type Array called likedBy in the Answers and Questions classes in the Parse Dashboard Edited the likeButt method in Home swift and Search swift Added a like button in the Storyboard – AnswerCell Edited the Answers swift file accordingly by adding a likeButt method and the likeButton IBOutlet in the AnswerCell class Edited cellForRowAt indexPath method in Home swift and Search swift Added a like_butt and liked_butt image sets in Assets xcassets Edited the sendAnswerButt method in Answers swift by adding this line aObj ANSWERS_LIKED_BY String Edited the sendQuestionButt method by adding this line qObj QUESTIONS_LIKED_BY String Added the following lines in Configs swift let QUESTIONS_LIKED_BY likedBy let ANSWERS_LIKED_BY likedBy let ANSWERS_LIKES likes Replaced all instances of aClass and qClass with aObj and qObj in almost all swift files just use the Find tool in Xcode to find them IMPORTANT IF THIS IS AN UPDATE FOR YOU then you should do the following – Updated the code of your app by comparing your old swift files and Storyboard with the updated ones – Enter your Pasre Dashboard and create a column of type Array name it exactly likedBy in the Questions class – Do the same for the Answers class – Check the Likes class the userPointer column has the objectId s of the users who liked questions so you have to copy them and add them to the cells of the likedBy column in your Questions class as strings they should look like this yu76Gtrr4 hbg4ERs1 You can recognize the row of a liked question by check its objectId in the questionPointer of your Likes class – For the Answers class you only need to fill all the empty cells of the likedBy column with PLEASE NOTE that the Likes class won t be used anymore but you can still keep it in case some users won t update the app from the App Store 3 April 2018 Updated to reccomended settings with Xcode 9 3 Updated the 3 Facebook SDKs because of Swift 4 1 release FBSDKCoreKit framework FBSDKLoginKit framework FBSDKShareKit framework 26 November 2017 Edited the the showBanner method in Home swift Answers swift and Search swift in order to the AdMob banner to not overlay the bottom TextField 22 September 2017 Updated to Xcode 9 Swift 4 iOS 11 Added a 1125x2436px png image iPhone X launch image into Assets xcassets – Brand Assets image set Edited the refreshTB method in Home swift Edited getFBUserData in case of no email on Facebook sign in Edited forgotPasswButt method in Login swift Added lowercased to the searchBarSearchButtonClicked method in Search swift queryQuestions searchBar text lowercased Added UITableViewDataSource and UITableViewDelegate delegates in the class declaration of the Search swift file as well as the delegates methods declarations as per Swift 4 Added some lines of code that save a default avatar image the app s logo in SignUp swift Adjusted buttons and views positions in the Storyboard because of iPhone X layout Unchecked the Runtime API Checking in the Scheme – Diagnostics accordingly to this post https stackoverflow com a 44392584 3724800 AskIt is a Universal App Template where you can post any question and have users answering you can do the same on other user s questions Users can also like questions from the Home screen or search for something on the Search screen Since its backend is by Parse Server you don t have to buy any domain hosting there are NO PHP files to upload to a web server so you ll save some money for server side also because back4app offers a generous free plan AskIt is a native XCode project Swift language Storyboard Universal Push Notifications for likes and answers super easy to customize backend with Parse SDK hosted on http back4app com About Parse SDK and back4app Read this article for more info about back4app and Parse SDK https hubpages com technology Parse-SDK-will-not-shutdown-in-thanks-to-back4app Can I host Parse Server on my own server Yes although I don t provide support for the setup process you can read the official Guide here http parseplatform org I get a Code signing error in Xcode 8 x That s a bug of Xcode 8 with macOS Sierra check this sample video to see how to fix it https youtu be z2LemT1_LqA How to remove AdMob interstitial ads Simply use the Find tool in Xvode to find this line of code self showInterstitial and comment it out in all files found by the Find tool What about free support for this template I can offer free support for bugs encountered in the original code Instead if you ve edited the code and messed something up with it I may apply some fee to fix it either via TeamViewer or by checking your app project files directly on my computer Should I use the latest version of Xcode to edit this template Yes I always update my apps to the latest version of the IDE Why do I need to have login from Apple Account in the app Yes because from 30th April 2020 APPLE authorities restricted the apps using 3rd party login from FACEBOOK GOOGLE etc should also integrate APPLE SIGN IN method in the app For reference APPLE SIGN IN GUIDELINES Terms Policy about Back4App Users are bound to change the back4App keys and APP keys after purchasing the source code and all the related stuff from CUBYCODE As CUBYCODE will reserve the rights to take some legal actions if users continue to use company s account of Back4App for their testing purposes Screenshots XCode 11 4 project Swift 4 5 64bit Universal Storyboard iOS 13 5 AdMob Interstitial ads Facebook login Post answer like questions Attach an image to your Questions Works with Parse SDK hosted on back4app Push Notifications for likes and answers Report abusive contents questions or answers Search for questions by keywords Documentation and PSD icon graphics included Easy to customize Well commented code Apple Mac with its latest OS version installed The latest version of Xcode and some knowledge about its UI interface Photoshop or any other image editor software An Apple Developer account to submit apps to the App Store An AdMob account to generate your own banner UNIT ID A free account on back4app com