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ios

A collection of 23 issues

How To Automatically Create .gifs From The iOS Simulator

Did you know you can export .gifs directly from the iOS Simulator? No third-party tools are needed!

How To Notify Users About App Updates

Whenever you release an app update, it's important to make sure existing users don't fall behind and that your user base doesn't become fragmented across multiple versions. So, some apps will choose to notify users when a newer version is available or will force them to upgrade if they fall

Rate Limiting on iOS

Whenever you enter an address into Google Maps or search for a video on YouTube, you may have noticed that the auto-complete suggestions update at regular intervals rather than with every change to the search query. When you consider the scale of these platforms, limiting requests in this manner is

Using .allSatisfy in Swift

You'll often find yourself in a position where you need to check if a particular condition applies across a collection of objects. Luckily, Swift provides the allSatisfy() method to handle just that. Let's say we want to write a function to verify that a student has completed all of the

Understanding Misaligned Images in the iOS Simulator

Today, we'll discuss this setting in more detail and we'll see how we can improve our app's rendering performance by addressing issues related to misaligned images. I've been making iPhone apps for years, but I've never really investigated this feature. Now that I know what it does, I wonder how

Automatically Delete iOS Simulator Screenshots

In iOS Development, you'll often use Command + S to take screenshots of your app running in the iOS Simulator. Although this is very convenient for sharing screenshots of your application with your team, or for pull requests, etc., since the system saves these screenshots to your Desktop, it quickly leads

Announcing Indie Watch 🚀— a newsletter for indie iOS devs

An exclusive weekly hand-curated newsletter showcasing the best iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps from developers worldwide.

Adding Custom Shortcuts To Xcode

It’s always bugged me that Apple removed the Command + T shortcut to toggle Slow Animations. Using the following approach, you can restore this shortcut and add custom shortcuts to any Xcode or iOS Simulator settings. In System Preferences, select Keyboard -> App Shortcuts -> + Then, just specify your preferred

Native QR Code Generation in Swift

Let's see how we can use native Swift code to generate a variety of different barcode and QR code types.