Evan K. Stone on iOS Development and UX
Another quick list of topics from today’s WWDC State of the Union presentation. I dropped the ball a bit (mostly during the graphics/Metal portion), so apologies for that. Again, no warranties expressed or implied on this. 😉 Xcode in the Cloud Unit Testing Deliver Code signing in the Cloud add a post action automatic delivery …
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Quick list of topics from today’s Keynote presentation. No warranties expressed or implied. 😉 FaceTime Spatial audio SharePlay: TV, Screen, Audio Focus notifications Summary Photos Live text whiteboard Spotlight Photos memories Music + videos Change music AI selected (this never works for me) Wallet Clipper Disney world Keys House Work Hotels Hyatt Also on Apple …
iOS 14 and iPadOS are compatible with these devices – Apple Support An official list of all devices that have iOS 13 or iPadOS are compatible with iOS 14. First Generation iPhone SE is still on the list, so Xcode isn’t lying.
I’ve been using GitHub for years now, but I hadn’t really taken advantage of the “Viewed” checkbox on the right side of the file listing while reviewing PRs until a teammate pointed it out to me and mentioned its usefulness beyond indicating simply that the file had been viewed. It turns out that if you …
The other evening, in the wake of a bit of nostalgia, I tested running an emulator project on an iPhone 5 simulator running iOS 10.3 in Xcode 11 (more on that in a future podcast episode). It surprised me at the time—but it probably shouldn’t have—that I got the notorious “‘App Name’ has not been …
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In your journeys with Swift since 4.2 released, you may have seen the CaseIterable protocol when working with enums. Since this is a relatively new language feature in 4.2, you might wonder what that is or what it does. In this article on raywenderlich.com, Getting to Know Enum, Struct and Class Types in Swift, Adam …
I don’t use Audible (yet), but the situation regarding Audiobooks on macOS Mojave and iOS 12 feels a bit like a UX conundrum at the very least. For starters, the Audiobooks feature resides in iTunes on macOS, but it’s in Books on iOS. I understand arguments for both, but it feels like Apple’s design or …
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If you’re doing extensive debugging and introspection with your web APIs (or perhaps debugging Web Views), here’s how to configure Charles to proxy SSL connections from the Simulator and on-device: SSL connections from within iPhone applications • Charles Web Debugging Proxy As of Charles v3.9.3 there is an item in the Help menu, “Install Charles …
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This article from the Big Nerd Ranch blog goes back to 2016, but it’s a great little rundown by Mark Dalrymple of #available, introduced back in Swift 2.0. Hi! I’m #available! Sometimes we just use language features like this and don’t really think about what’s going on under the hood when we use them, or perhaps …
This is a pretty great one-stop-shopping resource for Auto Layout by Paul Hudson. The Auto Layout cheat sheet – Hacking with Swift Auto Layout is a powerful tool for creating flexible, maintainable rules for your user interface. It can also be a real brain vortex if you’re unlucky – it’s something that makes hard things …
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