Arkadiusz Holko with a very clever technique for making motion animations look much more realistic. I actually used a very similar technique to this in one of our older apps where I included a motion blurred transition image but Arkadiusz goes into detail on doing this dynamically.
Will We See Android-Like Instant Apps on iOS?
Last week, I just made up a silly letter to Craig Federighi when linking to Android's new instant apps feature. This week, Arkadiusz Holko has done the much more sensible thing and dug into how it might actually be possible. Nice work. 😀
Bringing Google's Authentic Motion to iOS
I have linked to several articles over the last few weeks either directly about, or inspired by the new Android L design and here is another one. Arkadiusz Holko talks about the animation curves used in L and recreates them on iOS using a custom CAMediaTimingFunction.
Typed, yet Flexible Table View Controller
Arkadiusz Holko with a look at various approaches on how to architect your table view controllers and cells. He ends up with an approach where the view controller with no fragile switch statements, which is type safe and in fact doesn't need to be modified at all in order to add new cells. Interesting approach.
A Case Against // MARK: Comments
Are MARK comments a bad code smell? Arkadiusz Holko argues that they might be. Certainly the suggestion of support inside Xcode for better labelling of extensions in the drop down menu is something I'd really welcome, and would cut down on the need for MARKs significantly.