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How to play sounds when Unit Tests in XCode finish with success or failure

Currently I work on a project that has a lot of tests that take some time to finish. Usually I switch to working on something else while the tests are running in the background. Sometimes I deep dive into the … Read the rest

Post author By Michael Steudter
Post date March 6, 2020

iOS Development

Customizing your app’s navigation bar titles buttons and background

The default navigation bar you get when implementing a UINavigationController does it’s job but often you want to customize it because it just does not look so fancy.

To customize the background of your UINavigationBar you set its backgroundImage property … Read the rest

Post author By Michael Steudter
Post date March 1, 2020
Tags AppDelegate, customizing, Navigation bar, UINavigationBar, UINavigationController

iOS Development

How to use new iOS 13 system fonts like New York

At the WWDC19 there was introduced a lot of font related cool stuff for iOS13. One great thing is the new serif system font NewYork which can be used in your apps.

To initialize a UIFont with this or any … Read the rest

Post author By Michael Steudter
Post date March 1, 2020
Tags iOS, New York, systemFont, UIFont

Wordpress

How to solve failing installation of wordpress plugins

I wanted to install a wordpress plugin via the wordpress panel and I failed due to missing FTP rights. An alert window appeared asking me for FTP or SFTP credentials. I pasted them in there but, this did not work.… Read the rest