For one of our project we have the requirements to change the look and feel of the subtitles with AVPlayer. The display is handled directly by iOS SDK but there are couple of things we can do. Accessibility settings In your iPhone, Open Settings > Accessibility > Subtitles & Captioning. In this page you can […]
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Pull-Request checklist
When you are asked to be a reviewer in a Pull Request, you become accountable for. That mean, after the code will be merged to the main stream, your name will be there, so take it seriously. In this post, I would like to list various points I try to follow when I’m marked as […]
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Custom tvOS player
I have been working on a custom player control for tvOS recently for one of our project. In this little article I would like to share what are the important interactions to replicate if you are implementing a custom player and not using the default AVPlayerView Controller Interactions with Gesture Recognizers 4 types of gesture […]
WWDC 2021 is over. We got lot of new announcements for development. Here are some of my favourites sessions of the week. In App Purchase Meet StoreKit 2 Support customer and handle refunds Swift What’s new in Swift? What’s new in Foundation? Async Await Elevate your DocC documentation in Xcode Swift AttributedString Embrace Expected Failure […]
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Search screen on tvOS
Today we discover something interesting when working on the Search page on tvOS. Everyone knows the following search page. We have the keyboard on top, and a space for search results UISearchController In case you are running your apple tv with a different remote control than the SIRI remote (for example, a standard tv remote, […]
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Carbon
In some previous posts I was using a tool to generate nice images with source code. I just want to recommend Carbon which is very convenient, easy to use and very customisable for that purpose. Go check it out. Thank you for reading until here… 👊 Have a good week end… 🍺
Radius for all corners I have used the possibility to make rounded corners on iOS. It’s quite straight forward using the CALayer of a view. Doing the following will round all 4 corners of the view. Adding radius for some corners Is it possible to add a rounded corner to only 2 of the corners? […]
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Do-while-false?
Have you already use Do-While-False in some project ? This is of course not much applicable in Swift as we have guard let, but in C++, Java or ObjectiveC, this could be very useful in some cases. Let me past an example I found in old project. The purpose of the function here doesn’t really […]
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Using OptionSet
Let’s take an example. You are working as a team, with 4 members (Alex, John, Michael, Henry). The team is working on 4 iOS projects (Calculator, Tetris, Streaming App, Social Network) Now we want to mark which team member is working on which project. A simple way would be to use enum for this. One […]
This is going to be the last post of the Swift Package Manager Series. After we create a package, then make it automated, and include it in our project, we would like to make a second package. And we would like the package A to depend on packageB. What we want Package A Package B, […]