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(This article is spoiler-free.) In the past few years, I’ve fallen in love with exploration in video games. This mechanic is key in games like Outer Wilds or Subnautica. You’re dropped into the middle of a world and are given free reign to go anywhere, discovering many surprises along the way. I want more! However, […]
30 Nov 2022 • 1 min read Android Studio has a misleading “Make project” button that you shouldn’t click. Android Studio (and by extension – IntelliJ) has this hammer icon button in the IDE. It’s the “Make/Build Project” action and it’s a trap! This button runs every assemble task in your project, including tests, […]
Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three different pieces from Camille Saint-Saens’: Suite, Op. 90: II Menuet, and two from Carnival of… Source […]
The clipped() modifier in SwiftUI clips a view to its bounds, hiding any out-of-bounds content. But note that clipping doesn’t affect hit testing; the clipped view can still receive taps/clicks outside the visible area. I tested this on iOS 16.1 and macOS 13.0. Example Here’s a 300×300 square, which we then constrain to a 100×100 […]
Cat and Dan are back to cover the highlights from the last week of cricket. Topics include: – A very silly ODI series between Australia and England – An even sillier T20 World Cup – The return of JL Time! – Plus, another thrilling Muller Award Sponsored by Dan’s new book, The 10 Greatest World […]
22 Nov 2022 • 1 min read Android Lint has an API to make network calls, this post covers best practices of when and where to use it. A suspicious cartoon detective robot trying to connect to the wifi – DALL-E Source link
This time we talked to Sudarshan Muralidhar and Christian Melchior from MongoDB + Realm about their new multiplatform product that is created to ensure the consistency and consolidation of data across devices and your backend. Sudarshan Muralidhar on Twitter – https://twitter.com/sudssm Christian Melchior on Twitter – https://twitter.com/chrmelchior Realm Kotlin SDK Documentation – https://www.mongodb.com/docs/realm/sd… Atlas Sync […]
Android Backstage, a podcast by and for Android developers. Hosted by developers from the Android engineering team, this show covers topics of interest to Android programmers, with in-depth discussions and interviews with engineers on the Android team at Google. Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs Source link
Ben Scheirman returns to the show to discuss how Swift’s built-in concurrency features, such as async/await and tasks, can be used in practice when building apps for Apple’s platforms. Essential Developer: Join the iOS Architect Crash Course to accelerate your journey towards becoming a senior developer. It’s 100% free and held entirely online. NordVPN: Get […]
Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three different pieces from Camille Saint-Saens’: Suite, Op. 90: II Menuet, and two from Carnival of… Source […]