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Wider haptics control with iOS 13’s UIImpactFeedbackGenerator

Quietly slipped into iOS 13 and in classic Apple fashion, the expanded documentation for UIImpactFeedbackGenerator’s new styles and impactOccurred(intensity:) say “No overview available.” but being one of my favorite things for iPhone and waiting a long time for this, I did a little research into what’s capable with these new APIs.

August 8, 2019

Scrollable Node in SpriteKit

JenDobson/SpriteKitScrollingNode

Example app that demonstrates subclassing SKNode to make a scrolling node on an SKScene. - JenDobson/SpriteKitScrollingNode

github.com

If you are working with SpriteKit, there is no doubt you’ll come across the need to place some sort of scroll menu in place after some time.

iOS SpriteKit

July 17, 2019

Apple Maps Iconography

Revisiting the iconography of Apple Maps

A few years ago we published a post examining the point of interest (POI) icons within Apple Maps titled More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Apple’s Spotlight Location Icons. POI icons have existed in Apple Maps since Google was the maps provider.

medium.com

I am currently redoing a lot of the icons in Caramel so this article couldn’t have come at a better time.

iOS

July 10, 2019 7

Why is ScrollIntoView() jumping in (Mobile) Safari?!?!

TL;DR: You or your client probably has Reduce Motion enabled in their Accessibility options.

iOS Javascript

July 5, 2019

Swift Extension Resources

Four Clever Uses of Swift Extensions

A Swift extension allows you to add functionality to a type, a class, a struct, an enum, or a protocol. But extensions are more powerful than that.

cocoacasts.com

Over the source of Caramel’s development I struggled with organizing code using extensions so I spent some time pooling together a few resources from Swift experts.

iOS Swift

June 24, 2019 955

Modal UINavigationController, iOS 13 dismiss detection, & UIAdaptivePresentationControllerDelegate

Just a quick tip for those who are trying to set the presentation controller delegate to capture presentationControllerDidAttemptToDismiss from UIAdaptivePresentationControllerDelegate or any of the like using iOS 13’s new modal.

iOS iOS 13

June 23, 2019

RxSwift + MVVM, my favorite solution

RxSwift + MVVM: how to feed ViewModels

Let’s go through two different approaches to providing inputs (Rx Events) to ViewModels.

medium.com

I began to follow this pattern when developing Mango and it’s quickly become one of my favorite and most powerful ways to connect View Models to their controllers. I’ve continued the pattern into Caramel 2 and without a doubt it’s a way I’ll continue to organize code in future projects, even when moving away from…

iOS RxSwift

June 19, 2019

Prevent component orphans with text using CSS

A quick solution to prevent html component orphans from mucking up your titles.

CSS

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