ML-Works Engineering

CAGradient vs UIImage gradient performance comparison

It’s a popular myth that CAGradient is slow and we should use UIImage gradients instead of it. Let’s check it out.

TL&DR: CAGradient with shouldRasterize = NO has same performance as UIImage and faster than…

[Obj-c] Check imported categories exists in compile sources

You may not know, but if you remove category file from target compile source, you’ll not get any errors. Instead of this, you’ll get crash at runtime.

Overlap

This short article is about one cool effect, made to keep visibility of visual objects on different backgrounds.

I use word overlap in the meaning of combining several styles of a single visual object with custom border shape. For example, you can navigate through app screens with swipes…

Display notification after end of command execution

I have a problem: while long time tasks executed in terminal, I switch to safari, forgetting about the work. Before now I used || echo -e "\a", but it's not working while my plugged headphones lie on a table.

Change UILabel’s text color without text rendering

The core idea of my trick is to avoid a text rendering on text color changing. It is possible due UIView masking with rasterized UILabel. Text color changing is provided over background color change of masked view.