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https://mackuba.eu/2019/06/14/thoughts-on-swiftui/ · 14 Jun 2019
Like everyone, I was shocked by Apple’s surprise reveal of SwiftUI at WWDC last week. We’ve heard rumors of some kind of declarative, multi-platform framework coming sometime in the future, but I don’t think anyone expected we’d see it so soon. T...
https://mackuba.eu/2019/03/06/watchkit-adventure-2-mvc/ · 6 Mar 2019
This post is the second (or technically third) part of my series about building a WatchKit app that shows current air pollution level on the watch face. If you haven’t seen the previous parts, you might want to at least take a look at the intro.
https://mackuba.eu/2018/12/18/watchkit-adventure-1-the-big-picture/ · 18 Dec 2018
Update 03.07.2019: watchOS 6 has changed a lot of things that I’ve written about here, so I went through the post again and updated all parts that got out of date.
https://mackuba.eu/2018/10/29/watchkit-adventure-0-intro/ · 29 Oct 2018
Ever since I saw the first Apple Watch announced on stage, I wanted to learn to write apps for it. I bought my first Watch half a year later, when they finally appeared in Europe, with that thought in mind. You can probably guess how that went…
https://mackuba.eu/2018/09/07/new-stuff-from-wwdc-2018/ · 7 Sep 2018
For the last 3 WWDC’s I’ve been collecting ordered lists of all new features and APIs added in the new releases of Apple’s OSes, either announced in the keynote or one of the talks, or in release notes, or just discovered by some API diff spelunkers...
https://mackuba.eu/2018/07/10/dark-side-mac-2/ · 10 Jul 2018
Last week I posted an article here about how the “Dark Mode” in macOS 10.14 works behind the scenes and how such features as appearances, materials and vibrancy, which were present in macOS since at least 10.10, have been extended to work with the new...
https://mackuba.eu/2018/07/04/dark-side-mac-1/ · 4 Jul 2018
One of the most exciting announcements at this WWDC was the introduction of a long-awaited “dark mode” in macOS 10.14 Mojave, which lets you use a whole desktop with all the apps on it in a dark theme, instead of just the dock and the menu bar as befor...
https://mackuba.eu/2018/06/11/notifications-in-ios-12/ · 11 Jun 2018
One of the things that caught my attention in the WWDC videos I watched last week were the improvements in the notification system, meant to on one hand give more control over notifications to the users and make them a bit less overwhelming, and on the ot...
https://mackuba.eu/2017/07/13/changes-to-location-tracking-in-ios-11/ · 13 Jul 2017
Apart from a whole bunch of new frameworks (see the whole list here), iOS 11 also makes some major changes to existing APIs. One of the affected areas is location tracking. If your app only uses location while the app is in the foreground, as most apps do,...
https://mackuba.eu/2017/07/05/new-stuff-from-wwdc-2017/ · 5 Jul 2017
It’s that time of the year again - if you’re like me, you’ve probably spent a lot of time in the last few weeks following everything that’s been announced at WWDC, digging into release notes, watching WWDC talks and playing with some cool new stuff...