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Hello and welcome to another blog post about SwiftUI. This time, we will talk about the animation of complex shapes in SwiftUI. You will understand animatableData property and will be able to implement animatable custom Shape struct that depends on multiple parameters. AnimatableData Animating simple shapes is easy thanks to animatableData property. We have seen […]
A concept about single focus server functions written in Kotlin. Recently I found the need to create a Server-less Function for a project and was disappointed in both the lack of Kotlin options and the tightly-coupled, framework-specific code necessary to implement one. This lead me to ponder about how a Server-less Function could be implemented […]
Kotlin Multi-platform is a great feature that gives the ability to share code between the different parts of an application (mobile clients, web clients, and even the server). Using this feature often leads to the creation of a core module which contains the reusable code, such as, models and business logic. But most of the […]
Welcome to the third post in our series on Python at scale at Instagram! As we mentioned in the first post in the series, Instagram Server is a several-million-line Python monolith, and it moves quickly: hundreds of commits each day, deployed to production every few minutes. We’ve run into a few pain points working with […]
If your JavaScript codebase is even moderately complex, you probably have a way to bundle and run different code in development and production. Bundling and running different code in development and production is powerful. In development mode, React includes many warnings that help you find problems before they lead to bugs. However, the code necessary […]
The European Accessibility Act, or EAA is due to become law in Europe later this year, and it defines some specific requirements for mobile. In fact, its the first accessibility legislation that I’m aware of, anywhere, that explicitly covers mobile apps. Since 2012 the European Union has been working on standardising accessibility legislation across Europe. […]
Recently I’ve been working on some iOS 8 app extensions, and I’ve run into a few non-obvious details that might come in handy for anyone else in the same situation. Some of the following relates to bugs still in the system, and so will probably only be relevant for a limited time. Debugging: General The […]