about 2 months ago
- Overview When ordering food via an app, you get integrated order status tracking, but if you order in person, you don’t. Usually you give them a name and they’ll call you or you take a number and they’ll bring the food out to you. However, Hey Tea has a nice way of connecting...
2 months ago
- tl;dr: If you are looking for a virtual qwerty keyboard for your Android, use Unexpected Keyboard. It’s really good as long as you don’t rely on autocorrect to type. Before we get to the review, we need a brief story to set up why I’m obsessed with the control key. A long time...
3 months ago
- After iOS 26 beta 3 was released, I grumped about the “Liquid Glass” design being dialled back. Well, it didn’t take long for that to be mostly reverted. I’m a bit conflicted about this, though. I’m happy that the shiny, refractive design is back. This looks much better to me...
6 months ago
- Many years ago (2010 or so) I released an app called Flickr Addict for Palm WebOS phones, which automatically downloaded beautiful images from the Flickr photography website and changed the phone background image on a regular basis. I wanted to see if I could rebuild that app in...
8 months ago
- Setting up background tasks in SwiftUI is a little different from UIKit. Note: this post assumes you’re using BGAppRefreshTask, if your jobs are longer than 30 seconds, you’ll want to use BGProcessingTask instead. 1. Add BGTaskSchedulerPermittedIdentifiers and Entitlements...
9 months ago
- For a long time in Kidz Fun Art, the tablet app I built, you could draw with a rainbow brush, which is the favourite feature of many people. I noticed my eldest daughter trying to use it in such a way so to only use a subset of the colors and it was really awkward, … Continue...
10 months ago
- It's Cyber Monday: and I'm offering one-day, one-off discounts on my ebooks, as well as on The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. Here they are: The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter: 20% off, for the first year, for annual subscriptions. Claim it here. See more details, and read...
11 months ago
- During a vacation in the rain forests of Queensland in 2001, we saw some strangler figs. These are vines that germinate in a nook of a tree. As it grows, it draws nutrients from the host tree until it reaches the ground to grow roots and the canopy to get sunlight. It can then...
12 months ago
- Native apps are all about control. Don’t like thing X? You can dive in and, with enough elbow grease and persistence, finally get what you want. Write your own C library. Do some assembly code. Even make your own hardware if you have to. But on the web you give up that control....
about 1 year ago
- A few weeks ago, I wrote a [guide on how to deploy React Native iOS app to TestFlight from Azure DevOps pipeline](/blog/how-to-deploy-react-native-ios-to-testflight-from-azure-devops-pipeline). Once you and testers in your team have made sure that the app is working by...
- When you develop an iOS app, Android app, or a cross-platform app using React Native in a company, there is one thing you need to implement as soon as possible to save you tons of troubles in the future: **the CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) pipeline to...
- Just a quick note on a personal workflow thing. I’ve written before about the many different ways I host my personal websites on Netlify. I’ve got a few websites that aren’t the traditional model of: commit to git, push, build triggers on Netlify, website goes live. Sometimes I...
over 1 year ago
- I wanted to have a GUI app for my personal project that required access to the file system. Ideally, I should create a desktop app using a native platform (e.g., Swift for macOS) or Electron for cross-platform support. However, developing a native app for macOS, Windows, and...
- Update: OWA is out with an open letter appealing to Apple to do better. If you care about the future of the web, I encourage you to sign it, particularly if you live in the EU or build products for the common market. After weeks of confusion and chaos, Apple's plan to kneecap...
- For the past ten days or so, I have been trying to gain some basic competency with SwiftUI. I have found it hard. Very hard. But I finally feel there is a sliver of light in my comprehension. Just enough to give me the confidence to write this here, thinking there may be more...
- The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows some customization. the highest degree of customization is Shortcuts. Apple's default transcription is terrible. I got a new iPhone recently and so this is my chance....
almost 2 years ago
- Question: I'm a non-technical founder with a concept for a productivity app that sets screen time limits and rewards users for staying below these limits. However, I'm struggling to determine if this idea is technically feasible, especially considering the data access...
- .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) is a powerful framework that empowers developers to build cross-platform applications with ease. In this article, we’ll guide you through the process of creating a desktop app using .NET MAUI. What is .NET MAUI? .NET MAUI is a modern,...
about 2 years ago
- Seeing something you made put in print is exciting. Seeing something you made translated and put in print, well that’s pretty damn exciting too. Such was the feeling when I opened my copy of the Japanese translation of The iOS App Icon Book. While the core idea of the book...
- Question: As a startup founder, I've recently been quoted a rate of 150K USD for the development of a mobile app for my product. I'm trying to understand if this is a reasonable amount to invest in our app development. I've also had a quote of 50K for wireframes/designs from an...
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