Awesome display of the power and flexibility of SwiftUI.
I did a much earlier version of this course about ten years ago. It was Objective C and AppKit. A Swift and SwiftUI version sounds like a lot of fun. Need to make time for it.
Working from home and doing videoconferences all day long has made it painfully obvious how badly the built-in webcam on my MacBook Pro compares to the front-facing camera on my iPhone / iPad.
It has become obvious this should be part of the Continuity set of features on macOS / iOS.
Apps in the Kids Category may not include third-party advertising or analytics. You should also pay particular attention to privacy laws around the world relating to the collection of data from children online.
This is great.
In hindsight, it seems obvious to me that app developers would abuse "Background App Refresh" functionality of iOS to call home and send data.
So I went to Settings on my phone and found a giant list of apps with the Background App Refresh function turned on.
I turned almost all of them off. Especially those from companies whose business model relies on collecting my personal data: anything made by Google, Facebook (WhatsApp, Instagram), Amazon, Uber, Yelp, etc. Obviously, all those crappy adware/games my son downloads.
I only left the setting on for apps made by companies I trust because their business model is not about collecting data (Apple and to a lesser degree Microsoft) and only for apps I use often and I can see the value for the contents to be up to date by the time I open the app (Notes which may change on a separate device, Outlook, etc.).
The best part, this should improve my battery life – to what degree it's unclear and reduce my data usage.
I bet that Apple will, in the near future, default this setting to OFF and make apps ask you if you really want to grant them the ability to perform Background App Refresh.
Collection of iOS wallpapers, going back quite a bit.
Incredible technology demo by Trixi Studios: Use iOS 11 ARKit to recreate the classic A-Ha music video "Take on me" in the real world.
The master list. Good to know.
App for sharing links from the phone to my Shaarli installation.
Rough.
By far the app I use the most on iOS. I'm addicted to RSS.
The idea is obvious. But if the implementation is good, this could save me lots of water and money.
Nice article with good tips. I keep telling people that no, you don't need to close every open app on your phone to save battery.
Very interesting techincal article on what design decisions mean that Android cannot be as smooth as iOS.
This is my first contribution to the Finer Things in iOS blog.
Some of the little details that don't get much space on Apple's pages...
lots of things to look forward to.