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Fox 2.4 — Release Notes

Quick Tags, Effort Tracking, and minor touch-ups. It’s been awhile since I’ve made a post on the blog with Fox updates, but here we are! There’s a batch of new features coming in this update and a ton of fixes as well. New Features: – Quick Tags: Select which tags appear in tag menus through…

May 27, 2024 3

Fox 2.1.2 — Release Notes

Besides bug fixes, Version 2.1.2 has updates that primarily involve the archives, path improvements, and UI touchups.

Fox Issue Tracker

March 13, 2024 5

Fox 2.1 — Release Notes

Version 2.1.0 is a meaty update that includes a lot of stuff to make using workspaces easier, getting to issues faster, and fixes a few bugs, both small and large.

App Updates Fox Issue Tracker

March 1, 2024

Fox 2.0 — Release Notes

After many many months, I have finally released Fox 2.0.0 to the public for iOS and Mac. Thanks for hanging in there, as this is one both of the most stable and useful versions since this project began years ago and sets things up for more rapid development now on. Fox is a standalone and…

App Updates Fox Issue Tracker

November 30, 2019

The Caramel Recipe Document Spec

I created this format as a way to make recipes as interoperable as possible and to make passing rich information between Caramel users incredibly easy.

iOS Other

October 31, 2019 308

Base & Elevated System (and Grouped!) Background Colors

In iOS 13, Apple introduced a slew of new colors that are also dynamic – meaning they will adjust between light and dark modes (and other scenarios, such as high contrast). Of the new colors, the various background colors are pretty pecular: iOS defines two sets of background colors—system and grouped—each of which contains primary,…

iOS iOS 13

October 19, 2019 537

CloudKit Sharing: Five Tips and Tricks

A few tips on sharing with CloudKit. Using sharedCloudDatabase and zones and a little on UICloudSharingController and UICloudSharingControllerDelegate

CloudKit iOS

October 1, 2019 490

Faster UIActivityViewController Share Sheets with UIActivityItemProvider

A common annoyance using iOS share sheets that just opening them will lock up the UI before showing options. UIActivityItemProvider is the solution.

iOS

September 6, 2019 51

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.

iOS iOS 13

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

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