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To say that SwiftUI’s List is the equivalent of UIKit’s UITableView is both true and false at the same time. It’s definitely true that List offers a built-in way to construct list-based UIs that are rendered using the same overall appearance as when using UITableView — however, when it comes to mutations, we instead have […]
Marcin Krzyzanowski returns to the show to talk about building editors for Swift code, backend-driven user interfaces, and more. Also, the challenges of working with text-based data, the pros and cons of composition, and managing hobby projects. RevenueCat: In-app subscriptions made easy. RevenueCat handles the pain points of implementing subscriptions and in-app purchases, so that […]
Don’t be surprised, you read it right – there are some Building Materials that Block Mobile Signals. While inside a building if you have ever faced mobile signal issues then the building materials used in the building could be a reason for that. It is particularly true when you get a proper signal outside the […]
Hard to believe that I’ve had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that’s yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster up the initiative to get my system fully upgraded! […]
As iOS developers, a lot of our work involves taking models from a server, and transforming them to be displayed on an iPhone or iPad. This sounds like a job for some declarative architecture. 🤔 If you ask 3 programmers how to define MVVM, expect to get 7 different responses. — ✨ Joe Fabisevich™ ✨ […]
If you haven’t checked out Part I, I recommend reading it because if you don’t, none of writing below will make sense! Three Unanswered Questions 1. What happens when the views you want to configure are more complex? My recommended approach is to construct a one-time use struct, specifically for displaying in that one place. […]
An exploratory talk that showcases how Android can deliver a beautiful experience to the user using material design principles and various framework APIs like gestures and spans. This talk walks the user through a collection of concrete examples of custom UI components and their implementations in my gesture driven Reddit app, Dank. Recreating Google Inbox’s […]
Instagram recently launched Type Mode, a new way to post creative, dynamic text styles and backgrounds to Stories. Type Mode was an interesting challenge for us because it is the first time we were going to create a way for people to post Stories without photo or video components — and we wanted to make […]
Android is a huge ecosystem, with more than 1 billion active users spanning thousands of different device models. People who use Android have an incredible amount of choice, with significant variations in speed, feature set, and cost. Screen size is the most obvious variable — popular Android devices span from 240 x 320 to 1080 […]
Caching various files on disk has always been an integral part of many mobile apps. At Instagram, we use caching to store and recover images, videos, and text files. As a media-heavy application, the Instagram Android app requires a lightweight but stable disk cache system. When we first built the app, we started with the […]