Motion 💓

27 December 202020 December 2020 patmcgLeave a comment

This -centric open-source animation library looks promising.

Motion is an animation engine for gesturally-driven user interfaces, animations, and interactions on iOS, macOS, and tvOS.

I’ve been a little skeptical of open-source animation platforms since I had to toss out one app and then another as cocos2d morphed into cocosd2x and broke everything. Damn that x! But still, this looks cool. 👆

Via iOS Dev Weekly.

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Scrumdinger 🎁

25 December 202020 December 2020 patmcgLeave a comment

Here’s a little Christmas present of sorts for us iOS developers: a fresh new SwiftUI tutorial from Apple. The whole course takes about 4 hours and lets you build a niceeeee-looking scrum app from scratch. 🤩

This course guides you through the development of Scrumdinger, an iOS app that helps users manage their daily scrums.

👉 Scrumdinger – SwiftUI Tutorial

Screenshot of meeting timer screen with three main sections

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iOS Complexity Over Time, Visualized

24 December 202024 December 2020 patmcgLeave a comment

👉 Comparing iPhone OS 1.0 with iOS 14 using tree maps

Did you ever wonder how much more complex iOS is getting over time? If so, then here you are, friend: the files from the original 2007 iOS compared side-by-side with today’s iOS. 🤯

👉 Comparing iPhone OS 1.0 with iOS 14 using tree maps

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The Mac Developer’s Swiss Army Knife

20 December 2020 patmcgLeave a comment

I get so annoyed when I find myself using random websites 🤮 or all different apps 🤷🏻‍♂️ to do things like format JSON, test regex’s, encode/decode Base64, encode/decode URLs, or convert Unix time strings.

This nifty little Mac app does all the basic things any developer regularly needs natively, locally, and offline. And it’s free if you build it yourself. Or pay for the official build. Up to you.

👉 DevUtils.app – Developer Utilities for macOS

Via iOS Dev Weekly. See also: Mac-assed Mac Apps 😆

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It’s Time for Snapshot Testing

17 December 202017 December 2020 patmcgLeave a comment

I love the idea of snapshot testing. It’s a simple way to automatically test an app’s UI.

It works like this:

Set the app up in a certain state and take a screenshot. Save the screenshot. 📸
Next time when you run the same test, you compare screenshots. 📷 📸
If something changed unexpectedly, then you know there’s trouble. 💥

Here’s a nice series about how to do it for iOS/ Xcode.

👉 Snapshot Testing. Testing the UI and Beyond (Part 1)

And GitHub: swift-snapshot-testing

The coolest thing is that you actually upload your screenshots in any new pull requests, so you can literally see what the change is all about (“The perfect pull request”). 🤯

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