Notes from building software
Articles about app development and lessons from practice.
Replicating the Safari toolbar collapsing and expanding animation on iOS 15
The iOS 15 update brought us a redesigned Safari app with the address bar being displayed at the bottom of the screen compared to the earlier version where it was on top. The redesign also brought us some delightful animations...
Read article →Adding support for Swift Package Manager in existing CocoaPods library
Yesterday, I have updated my AHDownloadButton library to support Swift Package Manager and I wanted to share the steps that I needed to take.
Read article →Creating cURL command from URLRequest in LLDB
I have recently looked into how you can add custom LLDB commands that you can use for debugging in Xcode. The process is quite simple and it's very useful to have custom commands that are used repeatedly.
Read article →Generating a PDF file from UIScrollView content
After taking a short break, I decided to get back to writing by covering an interesting problem that I had to work on in the recent past. I had to generate a one page PDF file that contained content presented...
Read article →Finding the custom URL scheme of an iOS app
I was recently hired to find out if an app has a custom URL scheme. Using the URL scheme the developer would be able to implement deep linking and launch that app from his own app. The process of finding...
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