10 hours agoDay 2 of React! As an iOS DeveloperMy previous day was a simple Hello World webpage using react where I used React to create a h1 tag with text and added it to a div with id “root”. You can check out the series — https://medium.com/@iAkashlal/list/days-of-react-with-an-ios-developer-8becd7923fa2 …2 min read2 min read
Oct 3Day 1 of React! As an iOS DeveloperI embarked on a journey to learn React — one of the most popular web development frameworks. This article is part 1 of the series. Web development is not new to me — I have been ‘building’ websites from a long time now, however I tried to stay away from…Frontend4 min readFrontend4 min read
Jun 30String Catalogs with Xcode 15 — WWDC 23 FeatureApple has officially supported localisation/ globalization/ internationalization with Strings and Stringsdict since a long time now, however this approach is quite cumbersome: All the strings hardcoded in various files in the project needs to be collected in a single strings file, often manually. There are scripts to automate this to…Strings Catalog5 min readStrings Catalog5 min read
Published inBetter Programming·Jul 27, 2020Build Your First Widget in iOS 14 With WidgetKitToday’s a great day to get started building Apple’s new widgets — In the first-ever fully online worldwide developer conference, WWDC20, Apple announced the introduction of widgets to the home screen with iOS 14. …Programming12 min readProgramming12 min read
Published inBetter Programming·Jul 6, 2020Member-onlyApp Clips in iOS14 — Mobile Apps Made InstantA WWDC20 Swift session walkthrough — This article is a short text summary of the WWDC20 session. App clips were introduced in iOS 14, helping more people discover apps on the go by almost instantly downloading a part of the app to do some task. Unlike apps, app clips can’t be opened from the home screen…Swift6 min readSwift6 min read
Published inBetter Programming·Jul 3, 2020Member-onlyWidgets in iOS 14 With WidgetKitA WWDC 2020 Swift session recap — Note: This article is a short text summary of the WWDC20 session. WidgetKit is a new Swift framework introduced in WWDC20 that allows you to bring out the most important data from your app on your home screen! Design Widgets in iOS need to be designed keeping three things in mind…IOS4 min readIOS4 min read
Jun 4, 2020Learning RxSwift and RxCocoa basics — with SnippetsThis article shows most of the basic available examples (code snippets) of RxSwift (with Swift) Install RxSwift with CocoaPods with pod 'RxSwift', '~> 4.0' pod 'RxCocoa', '~> 4.0' and then import import RxSwift import RxCocoa Observables Creating an observable with one element, using .just let observable1 = Observable.just(1) Creating observable with…Rxswift5 min readRxswift5 min read
Oct 13, 2019Enabling Dark mode support for your iOS ApplicationsThis post is about enabling dark mode support for iPhone applications, iOS v13 and above. Dark mode is one of the most anticipated changes of iOS 13, and continues to be adapted by developers for the latest version of the iphone operating system. Ever faced a situation where your UITableView…IOS9 min readIOS9 min read
