A Passionate Technologists' Journal

Introduction: If you’re looking for an introduction to SwiftUI, this serves as a good starting point. This is about my experience learning/building the first SwiftUI app, that was built while learning the SwiftUI’s layout system. I tried to build out an iPad app(Since iPhone doesn’t fit well for this app) that’d display Resume based upon the content provided to it in the intended format.  Here’s the Github repo of the open-sourced iPad app for the complete details. The entire app’s/resume’s template is based upon this resume template with just a few tweaks added to it. So, now we have the UI for the app ready that we intend to develop with SwiftUI. On top of it, I planned to have a couple of additions with respect to the requirements of the app: Theming: The entire app should be easily ‘Themable’ aka easy to configure/apply themes Icons: The app shouldn’t use any of the images and should use only the fonts so that it easily adapts to our ‘Themabl...

Introduction Let’s start with Apple’s Own Definition : “SwiftUI is an innovative, exceptionally simple way to build user interfaces across all Apple platforms with the power of Swift. Build user interfaces for any Apple device using just one set of tools and APIs. With a declarative Swift syntax that’s easy to read and natural to write, SwiftUI works seamlessly with new Xcode design tools to keep your code and design perfectly in sync. Automatic support for Dynamic Type, Dark Mode, localization, and accessibility means your first line of SwiftUI code is already the most powerful UI code you’ve ever written.” Although it is NOT a replacement for UIKit/AppKit, take it or not, UIKit/AppKit is about to die slowly just like Objective-C and SwiftUI is going to replace UIKit/Appkit in the iOS/macOS platforms.  On SwiftUI Views: “SwiftUI Views are functions of state and not a sequence of events like UIKit”, meaning the views are created based upon your data/model and ...

If you have been using iOS7 for the past weeks, then you would have noticed the new Multitasking View (HP first introduced this type of multitasking for its Mobile WebOS) that gives a snap of the application. So, if you swipe up an application, the app gets deleted from the background queue. But, what if you want to delete more than one app at a time? Here comes the trick : You can place two fingers on the screen, one on the left app and the other on the right and when you swipe up,  both the apps gets deleted simultaneously, this at least gives you half the time needed to delete the apps.  Also, if your fingers are broader then you can even delete 3apps simultaneously, luckily i could do this easily on my iPhone but find a bit difficult doing it on my iPad.  But, still there is no real way to delete more than 2-3 apps at a time.  Still, Apple didn't provide us with an option to delete multiple apps(as iOS JailBreak Community alone takes advanta...

Introduction to iOS Here's the presentation for the following people :       * For those who own an iPhone/iPad/iPod-Touch and want to have a knowledge about the iOS Eco-System.      * For those who don't have even have a little exposure to iOS.      * For those who want to land onto the iOS Ecosystem and start off.

My Very First iOS UnArchiving Library " SARUnArchiveANY " has been posted in GitHub and published on " maniacdev.com " Hoping that it might be useful to many iOS buddies. Here's the story behind this library : I was working on a project, in which i needed to handle a different set of files that comes from several sources for Offline Access. So, files from each source were of different kind/type/format. For example, one was in .zip, another one with .rar and other in .7z and some .tar, .tar.gz formats too, but however we managed to get all the files from all the sources in 3 formats at the most - zip, rar, 7z, which are all the top most popular formats for file archiving. Coming to iOS part : I was the only one guy handling the complete iOS App/Project. I found that there is no framework or library to UnArchive files in iOS. But, there were few great libraries for each format separately and integrating all those took many of my days. I fo...