Writing
The public notebook: Swift, iOS, Flutter, and a long trail of “I will definitely remember this.”
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App Screenshots – upload the whole lot at once!
Uploading screenshots to the App Store used to be sooo laborious. Especially with Subtitles Viewer – four screenshots x 22 language localisations x 2 app flavours = 176 screenshots. That’s a lot…
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App Screenshots – now make them look like ads!
This is part 2 of 3. Part 1 covered capturing the screenshots. Part 3 will be uploading them. Last time, fastlane took the actual pictures of Subtitles Viewer – search results, language…
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App Screenshots – stop doing them manually!
This week I made a significant update to Subtitles Viewer (you can check it out here). Now updating screenshots for the App Store for an update is often not such a big deal,…
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Inadvertently creating an ActionScript code migration tool!
I’ve had quite the nostalgic experience this week – I’m looking into re-exporting some animations I built in Flash 26 years ago! Of course these days the software is rebranded as “Adobe…
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First impressions of Flutter: Part 2
In the previous article in this series, we looked at my first impressions of Flutter, Google’s increasingly popular multiple-platform development tool. Flutter has me quite impressed, but I am curious to know – How…
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First impressions of Flutter: Part 1
Having just spent a lot of time converting an iOS app to Android, I can really appreciate the value of a cross-platform tool with a single codebase. It’s time to check out…
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Converting Your iOS Application to Android: Part 3
This post was originally posted on Sentry.io, link here. In the previous two articles we’ve looked at why you should consider converting your application to Android, considerations to be aware of when converting…
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Converting Your iOS Application to Android: Part 2
This post was originally posted on Sentry.io, link here. In my previous article, we looked at reasons for converting your iOS application to Android, and things you’ll want to consider when porting your application…
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Converting Your iOS Application to Android: Part 1
For anyone who noticed – I’ve been quite quiet on the blog front for a couple of years – one reason is I’ve become a father! It turns out being a dad…
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Holy cow – You can preview UIKit code live in Xcode!
Now that SwiftUI is feeling more and more established since WWDC 2020, I’m in the process of getting properly acquainted with it. In my exploring I discovered something actually more relevant to…