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Create a labeled TextField in SwiftUI

Today, I wanted to create a labeled TextField in SwiftUI. More specifically the label should appear as a small text above the TextField. My first quick hack was to just add a label above a TextField. Obviously, we … Read the rest

Post author By Michael Steudter
Post date August 28, 2024

iOS Development

Developing iOS Apps for Kids

I do stumble now and then across (more or less great) apps for smaller children, kids or toddlers. You have probably seen these as well. I never released any app for the kids category but I was curious how it … Read the rest

Post author By Michael Steudter
Post date April 9, 2024
Tags iOS, Swift

iOS Development Testing visionOS

Paywalls on visionOS or Vision Pro

Lately, I released my first visionOS app. Actually, my personal deadline was the US release date (2nd of February 2024) and gladly everything worked out. You can read a little bit about it in my other article: https://mic.st/blog/develop-and-release-a-visionos-app-without-vision-pro/. One … Read the rest

Post author By Michael Steudter
Post date February 13, 2024
Tags Swift, SwiftUI, visionOS

visionOS

Develop and Release a visionOS App without Vision Pro

On February, 2nd there was the US release of Apple’s Vision Pro which started (according to Apple) the era of “spatial computing”. In case you are not a US citizen or flew to the US just for getting your hands … Read the rest

Post author By Michael Steudter
Post date February 8, 2024
Tags SwiftUI, Vision Pro, visionOS

Electronics Raspberry Pi

Afternoon project with Raspberry Pi Pico Inky

In the past, I already did electronics projects with a lot of different platforms, e.g different versions of Raspberry Pi, Atmel microcontrollers, some Arduinos and of course Lego Mindstorms 😁. Today, I want to share with you how you can … Read the rest

Post author By Michael Steudter
Post date December 10, 2023
Tags Displays, Pico, python, Raspberry

iOS Development

SwiftUI and “The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time … “

Although SwiftUI did become more and more mature over the years: When it comes to error handling, SwiftUI still sometimes feels like a pain. You probably have seen the following error more than once: It reads “The compiler is … Read the rest

Post author By Michael Steudter
Post date November 4, 2023
Tags good-practice, iOS, Swift, SwiftUI

Accessibility iOS Development

Accessibility improvements for UISearchController

By implementing UISearchController you can easily add search functionality to any UITableView. However, having such a search bar might have accessibility drawbacks. It might even be completely unusable users relying on Voice Over.

This article is part of my … Read the rest

Post author By Michael Steudter
Post date October 10, 2023

iOS Development

SwiftUI .ornaments modifier for visionOS App on Vision Pro

Currently, I am experimenting on a Vision Pro app as a side project. One thing I was not aware of for quite some time was this new paradigm with the fancy name Ornaments only used on visionOS. I just happily … Read the rest

Post author By Michael Steudter
Post date September 27, 2023

iOS Development

Connect Mac formatted (HFS+) USB drive to Raspberry Pi

Today, I wanted to connect an USB drive to my Raspberry Pi and it did not work as easy as expected to access it’s data. As a side note, it is a Raspberry Pi completely set up via terminal so … Read the rest

Post author By Michael Steudter
Post date September 15, 2023

iOS Development

Quickly unpack xip files

Ever wondered why unpacking a new Xcode release takes soooo long? I don’t know either. Probably a lot of time is spent on validating signatures or other things. Anyway, sometimes you just want to quickly unpack it.

Here comes unxip… Read the rest

Post author By Michael Steudter
Post date August 12, 2023