[Video] Customizing the NYT Games App for my Wedding
My wife and I are huge fans of the daily New York Times games — like the Crossword, Connections, Wordle, and Strands — as are many of our family members!
So when we got married earlier this year, we decided that it would be fun to take the NYT Games App and create a modified copy that contained puzzles about us and the big day.
The keystone of this project is NSURLProtocol - a class
that allows you to change the way that iOS’ networking system handles requests, including the ability to intercept them and return
your own data outright.
There are a couple other challenges to getting something like this working like - cache busting, dealing with web views, and finding the right requests in the first place — but the Games app ends up being a good example of how to build something like this end-to-end.
A huge thank you to the NYT Games team for making such a great app & (unknowingly) being part of our big day!
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