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In recent years instagram.com has seen a lot of changes — we’ve launched stories, filters, creation tools, notifications, and direct messaging as well as a myriad of other features and enhancements. However, as the product grew, a side effect was that our web performance began to slow. Over the last year we made a conscious […]
On this episode of the Beauty Brains we answer a number of beauty product questions and talk about big companies and the brands they own. Beauty Questions On today’s episode we answer your questions about Color cosmetics for protection from the sun? Is it ok to apply baking soda to your skin? What’s up with […]
I was asked to guest on the iPhreaks podcast to discuss iOS accessibility. We talked about why accessibility is important, how you can improve it in your apps, and some of the changes iOS 13 and SwiftUI bring. unfortunatley iPhreaks don’t provide a transcript, but they do provide a comprehensive write-up on their site. Source […]
Take a look at your app. Notice the collection of buttons, text, images, and other controls you can see and interact with that make up your app’s user interface. When one of your customers navigates your app with Voice Control, Switch Control, VoiceOver, or any other assistive technology, this isn’t the interface they’re using. Instead, […]
One of the most exciting announcements at WWDC this year was the introduction of platform-wide dark mode in iOS 13. During WWDC a group of enthusiastic iOS engineers and designers from Instagram’s design systems team banded together to begin plotting out what it would take to adopt dark mode in our app. This week’s update […]
I was honoured in 2019 to be able to give my first full conference talk at CodeMobile. I was then lucky enough to be able to repeat that talk at NSLondon, NSManchester, and SWMobile meetups. As an iOS developer, I know accessibility is important for a huge range of people. But at times I think […]
Today we’re happy to announce our new engineering podcast, The Buffer Overflow Podcast. And, our first episode is now available for streaming! How to Listen The Buffer Overflow Podcast is now available on all major platforms today, so if you open your podcast player of choice and search for us, we should be there! Here […]
There used to be a really easy way to install Google Apps onto the Huawei Mate 30 Pro, but that service is no longer. A security researcher found an undocumented API call in the LZ Play service and suddenly everything went down. Meanwhile, Microsoft surprised basically everybody in the world by announcing an Android smartphone…coming […]
The Android Authority Podcast – discussing topics in Android every week. The Android Authority Podcast brings you all the top stories and features based on your favorite mobile operating system: Android. We help make Android more accessible to all, and dive deeper into the details when we can, there’s something in here for everyone. […]
The Android Authority Podcast – discussing topics in Android every week. The Android Authority Podcast brings you all the top stories and features based on your favorite mobile operating system: Android. We help make Android more accessible to all, and dive deeper into the details when we can, there’s something in here for everyone. […]