Written by Preview! Heads up: most things covered in this post are in a preview state of some sort. If you want the full technical details on this topic, you can jump to KEEP-226 and its design proposal instead of reading this article. JDK15 introduced a version of sealed classes and interfaces (see JEP 360) in a […]
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 […]
The attack on the US Capitol, and subsequent threats of violence surrounding the inauguration of the new US administration, has moved us to reflect and reacquaint ourselves with the reality that however good the maker’s intentions, technology can amplify the ability to cause great harm. This includes us and our products at Basecamp. Therefore, we […]
TL;DR Introducing the new parcelable library which enables using kotlinx.serialization to serialize data into Android Parcels to be passed between different Android Components. Android Parcelable Android’s Parcelable is an object whose values can be written and read from a Parcel. An Android Parcel is a container of values that can be sent between different Android […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
As we all move into a hopefully much better 2021, here are three things you can do to improve your experience as a photographer for the coming year. Take a Moment to Revisit Your Previous Work Sometimes you’re too deep in the woods to see the forest for the trees. Like when your spouse borrows […]
Like before, this will be a mostly personal ramble about things that happened during the year. You’ve been warned. For the usual technical content, please tune in next year. The elephant in the room Let’s just get this out of the way: this year has been absolute rubbish. There’s no going around or sugar coating […]