It’s been really interesting seeing how prominence for today widgets have changed over the past couple of years. First introduced in iOS 8, today widgets weren’t given a very high place of honor and were coupled with missed notifications within Notification Center. However, in iOS 10, emphasis on today widgets has drastically changed, completely taking …
Category: iOS
Tutorial: WWDC-Style Live Code Snippets
I recently gave a “live” coding tutorial at the Silicon Valley iOS Developers Meetup on how to create your first WatchKit app. By “live” I mean I did it WWDC-style with autocomplete blocks of code when I type in a completion shortcut. For those of you that aren’t familiar with this – you know how …
Easy iOS Device Projector Demos
I recently did a talk where I live demoed some OCR functionality that I built. Essentially, I had to show what was happening on my device screen while I took a picture of a piece of paper. The main issue with this for screen reflector apps is that the refresh rate isn’t nearly as fast as the …