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Really? That's not good. Well, as long as they're not using any kind of class-aware RPC, you can probably just add prefixes to all the classes yourself. Would take about 10 minutes using the Rename Class feature of Xcode, and it would be tedious, but it should work.

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Such libraries are often closed source. Even if not, such a solution does not scale. Each update, you'd have to go through this hoop. Just vote with your wallet and do not use services that offer terrible SDK / API.

Yeah, good point. I actually started to do that, but on further inspection the library did some other questionable things too - and didn't accomplish the primary purpose very well. The whole thing seemed to be more of a 'check a box so we can say we have an iOS library' than a real attempt at reliable, usable library.

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