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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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Accessibility

Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (BFSG) for Apps, Websites or Digital Services

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You might have heard of the European Accessibility Act (EAA) as someone interested in accessibility in any kind of digital products. For me as a German iOS developer the Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (or BFSG in … Read the rest

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iOS Development

Draw line graphs and charts in SwiftUI

Graphs and charts are an essential tool for visualizing data, and with SwiftUI, it’s easy to create custom and interactive graphs (Spoiler: we won’t add any interactivity during this arcticle). You can use them in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS … Read the rest