YouNews iOS Universal News App Template Swift

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25 June 2024 Updated the app with some new design Added video and new screen shots Updated to iOS 17 and Xcode latest version 9 August 2020 Added new tabs with updated design on home page Updated design for listings of likes page categorical listings page Resolved the issues of UIWebview in the app 3 May 2020 Implemented Apple Sign in as new feature Fixed a crash on comment listing screen Updated the code to support iOS 13 and xcode 11 versions Udpated the code to support dark mode of Apple 6 August 2019 Applied Card view on Home Screen UI Improved the design of login screen by adding transparent views in Background Updated all the List Views by card view and with updated images Increase the size of item in a list view adjust with iPhone X XS Max etc Fixed bug of Signup login account direct from Facebook Updated categories setting screen with new design 26 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 3 April 2018 Updated to recommended settings with Xcode 9 3 Updated the 3 Facebook SDKs because of Swift 4 1 release FBSDKCoreKit framework FBSDKLoginKit framework FBSDKShareKit framework 26 February 2018 Replaced the news TextView with a WebView in the NewsDetails controller in Storyboard removed the ScrollView and moved all its views into the main View adjusted the code in NewsDetails swift accordingly – edited the showNewsDetails method Get news text let htmlText newsObj NEWS_HTMLTEXT newsTextWebView loadHTMLString htmlText baseURL nil newsTextWebView scalesPageToFit true In this way you ll be able to publish news articles with bold or italic text links and images still from the web not locally instead of plain text Added this line into Configs swift let NEWS_HTML_TEXT htmltext Added a shouldStartLoadWith request method in NewsDetails swift as WebView delegate Added a sheet html file in the package in order to help you create HTML text articles for the Parse Dashboard IMPORTANT IF THIS IS AN UPDATE FOR YOU then you first need to enter your Parse Dashboard and create a new column in the News class called exactly htmltext of Type String and fill it all the empty cells of such column with your HTML text the Documentation explains how to do that with a new sheet html file included in the package Then you can update the code of your app project and test it YouNews is a Universal App Template where you as the Admin of the app can easily add and edit news via the Parse Dashboard hosted on back4app com or Adminca com free CMS panel for Parse apps and have them displayed right away in the app You can also send Push Notifications to all registered devices via the Parse Push console on back4app Users and readers can comment like and share news Login Sign Up is required for comments and likes as well as contact the admin by email rate the app on the App Store You as the Admin of the app should daily check your database for reported comments and take action for them The Category images and names are stored locally within the Xcode project the User Guide explains how to configure the app the backend on back4app and how to edit add categories Since its backend is by Parse 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 YouNews is a native XCode project Swift language Storyboard Universal super easy to customize backend with Parse SDK hosted on http back4app com I m new to Xcode UI interface any help Sure start by reading this tutorial it will surely help you get familiar with Xcode and its UI interface https hubpages com technology iOS-About-Xcode-and-its-interface 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 banner ads Check this video out to see how to remove the code that shows AdMob banners https youtu be e-HQYnta2Jg Keep in mind that you must repeat the shown steps for every swift file that contains this line on the top import GoogleMobileAds 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 Screenshots XCode 11 4 project Swift 4 5 64bit Universal Storyboard iOS 14 0 AdMob banners Edit add news by the Parse Dashboard or Adminca com CMS panel Send Push Notifications to all registered devices Comment like and share news Image and YouTube video headers for the news details screen Delete and Report comments options PDF User Guide and PSD included Terms of Use HTML file to be edited 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 https back4app com and or https adminca com