I don’t often link to podcasts, or specific episodes because the medium is a little harder to consume than a blog post. I do enjoy listening to them though! This list by Josh Adams is a great excuse to get up to date with what’s available, and subscribe to a few more.
If you’re still using a tool after 6 months, it’s become a proper part of your workflow and that’s what makes this question from Dave DeLong interesting. Looks like these tools were most popular from the replies and they match pretty well with much of what I use too. For me, it would have been Tower, Dash, Sketch, Soulver, Xscope, SimPholders, Atom, Paw and Sip.
All PNG files are not created equally and Mark Edwards gives some details on which tools are going to provide you with the smallest files for shipping alongside your app. Looks like Photoshop PNG24 export is the winner, but as long as you’re using your tool’s optimised export rather than a Save As you’re probably in good shape.
This might as well be called “ProfilePictureImageView”, but that’s no bad thing! If you need to display a photo of someone in your app, being able to detect a face is far easier to use than any pan/scale/crop control you could build. This library from Beau Nouvelle gives you an image view that’ll find and centre a face in a photo. Really smart use of face detection technology.
Not being involved with anything which has needed SceneKit, I wasn’t aware of exactly what it was capable of these days. Avihay Assouline gives us a run down on the new Physically Based Rendering features. It’s pretty impressive.
I can see that with iMessage apps now being a thing, that it might be the case that the ability to write with your finger, or draw small doodles might be a bigger requirement than it used to be. Rather than build that yourself, here’s a pre-built component.
Talking of iMessage apps, Prianka Liz Kariat gives us a walkthrough of creating a tic tac toe game inside messages. I’m not sure these apps are going to be a huge success, but I bet we’ll see at least a few really catch on, especially when they integrate with a full blown iOS app.
John Saito on the pros and cons of letter case over capitalisation for your labels and buttons. There’s some good points being made in the comments too.
This Twitter thread gives some good insight into why you might see the dreaded “Bug fixes” line in larger apps when they update. Great discussion here and it makes a lot of sense.
Craig Clayton talking about SwiftBond (now known as ReactiveKit), a reactive library. The talk focuses on using it primarily for monitoring and updating UI.
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Seems like there is! 😆