Written by Images are a major part of our apps. They add meaning and interest, they give your app character and context. The adage is that a picture is worth a thousand words. But if you can’t see the image clearly, how do you know what those words are? If you aren’t providing image descriptions in your […]
How many shades of grey do you use in your app? OK, maybe thats a bit cruel towards designers, grey is a great colour, but the problem with grey is that it can be deceptively difficult to distinguish from a background. And this problem is not just limited to greys – lighter colours too can […]
Displaying dates or times is a very common requirement for many apps, often using a specific date formatter. Let’s see what SwiftUI brings to the table to make it easier for developers. Coming from UIKit, if I want to display a date, my code would look like something like this. import Foundation import UIKit let […]
When creating new features, it’s really important to think about how our users will use it. Most of the time, the UI is straightforward enough. However, sometimes, you will want to give some guidance, to highlight a button or a switch, with a message attached. Today, we’ll create a reusable and adaptable overlay in Swift […]
Close to the end of the year, I tend to list what I’ve accomplished but also what didn’t go so well, to help me see what can I do better next year. With couple days early, it’s time to look back at 2020. Starting from a professional point of view, a lot happened. Even though […]
I have put together a short video about creating particle effects with SwiftUI. It showcases the easiest/lazy way, which is great for simple eye candies and experimenting. Please note, that it is not the most performant way how to deal with particle effects in SwiftUI. If you need to go crazy about blending and high […]
Hey there! I had the pleasure to talk at Swift Heroes Digital on October 1, 2020. The talk “Scalable Modular iOS Architecture” is about the unfolding of a multi-year iOS vision at Just Eat, restructuring the whole app from the ground up to make it modular and global across various markets. I also covered some […]
A question that comes back often when using Coordinator pattern in iOS development is how to pass data between views. Today I’ll share different approaches for a same solution, regardless if you are using MVVM, MVC or other architectural design pattern. As a reminder, Coordinator pattern is an architectural design pattern dedicated to handle navigation […]
One reason I like so much working on native mobile apps is to deliver the user experience based on their region and location. Although, for every update, it can be painful for developers to recapture screenshots foreach available language. Today, I’ll share how to automate this with UI tests and Xcode tools. Prerequisites For UI […]
I’ve been experiencing more and more with SwiftUI and I really wanted to see what we can do with video content. Today I’ll share my findings, showing how to play video using AVFoundation in SwiftUI, including some mistakes to avoid. The best way to play a media on iOS is using AVFoundation, Apple’s framework to […]