Interesting Links #14
These are some links that I found interesting — hopefully they will be of some use to you as well!
Launch Storyboard Image Previewer Utility 0.2
Given that there are a lot of variations in form factors and viewports, it can be hard to visualize how a launch image will render on any particular device. Oh, who am I kidding? It can be next to impossible! That’s why I made a tool to help with that!
Interesting Links #13
Links to sites I found interesting over the last few days. I hope you find something interesting in here as well!
Interesting Links #11
Things I found interesting over the last few days. At the bottom, some thoughts on the recent goings-on in the States (Content/Trigger warning!)
Interesting Links #9
Links to sites and information I found interesting.
Interesting Links #6
Some links and sites I found interesting over the last few days. I hope you find some of these interesting too!
QuickTip: Tmux and the iOS Simulator
So I was recently working with UI Automation using Appium and Cordova, and things were going quite well. Then suddenly whenever I launched the iOS Simulator, it would hang, with Appium indicating that it was waiting for the device to boot.
Thoughts on Apple vs the FBI
So surely by now everyone is aware that Apple has been ordered to help the FBI unlock the company-owned phone of the San Bernardino terrorists. Apple is refusing to do so. The FBI is trying to make Apple out as “the bad guy” by doing so, claiming that the phone might have information on where the terrorists were during the now infamous eighteen minute window that the FBI has no other information on.
Thoughts on the Apple Pencil
Not too long ago I purchased an iPad Pro so that I could use it for development, and also verify that my existing applications worked correctly. Because it is a larger device, it is important to also verify that my apps can appropriately scale to the new screen size. This isn’t difficult, and you can test this in a simulator, but my mantra has and always will be: “there is no substitute for testing on a real device”.