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Issue #792 iOS 13 introduced Dark Mode with User Interface Style that makes it easy to support dark and light theme in our apps. Before we dive in, here are some official resources WWDC 2019 Implementing Dark Mode on iOS Supporting Dark Mode in Your Interface Choosing a Specific Interface Style for Your iOS App Adaptive color Like adaptive layout that adapts to different screen sizes, adaptive colors adapt to different user interface styles, for now they are light and dark mode....

Issue #744 As someone who builds lots of apps, I try to find quick ways to do things. One of them is to avoid repetitive and cumbersome APIs. That’s why I built Anchors to make Auto Layout more convenient, Omnia to add missing extensions. The next thing in the itchy list is the many ways to communicate among objects in iOS and macOS development that can be very annoying sometimes....

Issue #742 Auto Layout has been around since macOS 10.7 and iOS 6.0 as a nicer way to do layouts over the old resizing masks. Besides some rare cases when we need to manually specify origins and sizes, Auto Layout is the preferred way to do declarative layouts whether we choose to do UI in code or Storyboard. The Auto Layout APIs have some improvements over the years, there are also some sugar libraries that add easy syntaxes, so more choices for developers....

Issue #734 In SwiftUI there are fixed frame and flexible frame modifiers. Fixed frame Positions this view within an invisible frame with the specified size. Use this method to specify a fixed size for a view’s width, height, or both. If you only specify one of the dimensions, the resulting view assumes this view’s sizing behavior in the other dimension. VStack { Ellipse() .fill(Color.purple) .frame(width: 200, height: 100) Ellipse() .fill(Color.blue) ....

Issue #715 I remember this time last year in December 2019, I spent almost every single bit of my free time on Puma because I want a Swift friendly version of fastlane that suits my need and leverages Swift 5 features. Here’s my review of my work in year 2020. Blogging I started blogging on GitHub issue, starting from Issue 1 Hello world, again, now I have over 670 issues, which were generated into blog posts at my website https://onmyway133....

Issue #682 After has recently reminded about his updating APNs provider API which makes me realised a lot has changed about push notifications, both in terms of client and provider approach. The HTTP/2-based Apple Push Notification service (APNs) provider API lets you take advantage of great features, such as authentication with a JSON Web Token, improved error messaging, and per-notification feedback. If you send push notifications with the legacy binary protocol, we strongly recommend upgrading to the APNs provider API....

Issue #305 This year I’m lucky enough to get the ticket to WWDC and I couldn’t be more satisfied. 5 conference days full of awesomeness, talks, labs and networking, all make WWDC special and memorial conference for every attendee. As predicted by many, Marzipan (now officially called Project Catalyst) a technology that could allow iOS apps to be ported to macOS, would be the main topic for this year. But WWDC went more spectacular than that, with dark mode on iOS, independent watchOS apps, and SwiftUI being the star of the show....

Issue #268 React Native was designed to be “learn once, write anywhere,” and it is usually used to build cross platform apps for iOS and Android. And for each app that we build, there are times we need to reuse the same code, build and tweak it a bit to make it work for different environments. For example, we might need multiple skins, themes, a free and paid version, or more often different staging and production environments....

Issue #258 I started iOS development when iOS 7 had been announced. And I have learned a bit, through working, advice from colleagues and the iOS community. In this article, I’d like to share a lot of good practices by taking the example of a simple recipes app. The source code is at GitHub Recipes. The app is a traditional master detail application that showcases a list of recipes together with their detailed information....