Using the Shortcuts app to create GIFs on Mac — Imagine you’re on macOS writing a technical blog post and you need to add a screen-recording to your post to make yourself clearer. You summon the in-built screen-recorder of macOS by pressing Cmd + Shift + 5 and create a recording. Sadly, the file size of the screen-recording becomes too…

Getting started with SwiftUI Lists after WWDC 21 — Lists are one of the most widely used components in modern apps. They enable apps to display multiple rows of data in a column. In UIKit, lists can be developed using UITableView, and developers have to write a lot of code to implement lists. However, in SwiftUI, lists can be…

Find out how some carriers make you do some extra work to enable Personal Hotspot in iPhone — After about one and a half years of being an iOS Developer, in November 2020, I could finally muster courage to invest my savings on an iPhone. Hence, after months of in-depth research and feasibility study (credit goes to my involvement in technical field for that habit of using jargons…

Learn the import process the easy way — Playground is one of the most popular features of Xcode. It’s an interactive development environment that allows developers to carry out simple experiments using the Swift programming language and see the output of their code in real-time. In your programming journey, there may be times when you’d like to try…

Getting started with WidgetKit — If you’ve been following WWDC20, then you totally understand how huge this edition of WWDC has been for the whole Apple ecosystem, users, and developers. With the announcement of iOS 14, many handy features are on their way to spice up the iOS experience. One of such features is Widgets. …

An awesome feature that most programming languages do not offer — “An else block can exist only when an if block exists before it.” As a programmer not belonging to Python background, I was a strict follower of this rule. But I was left awestruck and confused after I saw one of my friends’ Python code that used an else block…

An awesome new feature in Swift 5.2 — Consider this piece of code: Here, we’ve created a struct named Car with five properties: model, brand, releaseDate, price, designerName and isExpensive. Let’s create some instances of this struct and store them in an array, cars: Note: The names of the cars and their properties do not resemble…

As of Xcode 11.4 beta, you can! — Push notifications are one of the most popular ways for developers to keep users engaged in their apps. In iOS applications, push notifications can be incorporated by using the Apple Push Notification service (APNs). However, it’s not as easy as it sounds since there is a long list of things…