Written by For iOS, Accessibility values are one of the building blocks of how Accessibility works on the platform, along with traits, labels, hints, and showing/hiding elements. If you’re familiar with WCAG or web accessibility, accessibility values are the value part of WCAG 4.1.2: Name, Role, Value. Values Not every element in your view will have a […]
I have been feeling that Reddit is well on its way to taking away from 4chan the title of internet hate machine, because even when a subreddit is themed around happiness it takes little to no effort to find extremely hostile comment chains with complete strangers arguing about the most pointless things. I was curious […]
Ever since its original introduction in 2019, SwiftUI has had really strong interoperability with UIKit. Both UIView and UIViewController instances can be wrapped to become fully SwiftUI-compatible, and UIHostingController lets us render any SwiftUI view within a UIKit-based view controller. However, even though macOS has had an NSHostingView for inlining SwiftUI views directly within any […]
For most mobile engineers, the end game is to release our own apps. For the few projects that make it to the App Store, it can be pretty hard to keep them alive over time. Eventually, the question comes up: should I remove my app from the App Store? Today, I’ll share about the thought […]
Opening an app from an URL is such a powerful iOS feature. Its drives users to your app, and can create shortcuts to specific features. This week, we’ll dive into deep linking on iOS and how to create an URL scheme for your app. When we talk about deep linking for mobile app, it means […]
I’ve been exploring more and more tooling around iOS ecosystem. One tool I really enjoy using those days is Github Action as a continuous integration for my projects. Today we’ll dive into tips and tweaks to make the most of it. Github Action is a docker environment that allows you to execute different steps around […]
When it comes to iOS development, everybody have their own favorite language and framework: Swift, Objective-C, SwiftUI, React-Native, Flutter and so on. Unlike most of my previous post, today we’re going to leverage some iOS tooling for cross platforms technology: fastlane and Flutter. Everybody agree to say Flutter is getting more and more popular in […]
As a general rule of thumb, all of the APIs and system features that Apple introduces in a given version of iOS can only be used when targeting that particular version, or any subsequent ones. However, this year there are a few very interesting exceptions to that rule, in that certain SwiftUI APIs that were […]
Switching from Android to iPhone could soon be a little bit easier. WhatsApp is working on a new tool that will allow users to transfer all their chat data from Google’s platform to iOS, according to a new beta version of the app. WhatsApp already gives users the ability to backup their conversations so they […]
Accessibility traits on iOS is the system by which assistive technologies know how to present your interface to your users. The exact experience will vary between assistive technologies, in some cases they may change the intonation of what VoiceOver reads, or add additional options for navigation, sometimes they will disable that assistive technology from accessing […]