vknabel
vknabel
Valentin Knabel
Developer, cyclist, coffee nerd, human. Open Source, kindness, honesty, vegan. It is fine to be imperfect, as long as we are honest and have fun along the way.
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When using @main on a SwiftUI.App and @UIApplicationDelegateAdaptor(AppDelegate.self) you can still have an AppDelegate without handling SwiftUI manually as without @main. You don’t even need a SceneDelegate! A huge difference for tiny...
Now, Android apps require a description for each permission. Back then, it was optional. In contrast to iOS, this is only a guideline and not enforced by the Android SDK. Instead the developer needs to implement their own alert. But with...
Bitrise binary uploads cannot be updated after saving. Instead they need to be deleted and recreated. Thus all workflow steps need to be updated if they rely on the data. Pro-tip: when copy-pasting, skip the BITRISE_IO and _URL parts –...
When maintaining multiple locales within your project, try to keep line numbers consistent across all locales. Also keep the order of translations consistent. That makes differences easy to spot.
Nothing new today, but a quick reminder: Even if you don’t need to explicitly localize String literals for Text manually, you can still need to when passing Strings to UIAlertController or other UIKit classes. Of course. But sometimes I...
ftp-simple allows opening FTP connections as VS Code workspace!
Localizable.strings doesn’t support unicode \unnnn escapes, but only \Unnnn! In Swift the \U is for UTF-16 escapes like \Unnnnnnnn.
The Android Studio tooling for Android apps checks and validates all translation keys. Even if they are present within the base language. This comes in handy after greater refactorings. But sadly the XML does not support XML escapes as...
How to detect a URL in a String using NSDataDetector - free Swift 5.1 example code and tips https://www.hackingwithswift.com/example-code/strings/how-to-detect-a-url-in-a-string-using-nsdatadetector
When setting the background color randomly in SwiftUI, you will be able to detect every single repaint! Might be helpful while debugging. https://twitter.com/steipete/status/1379483193708052480?s=12
UIImageView image is not animatable. Instead use transitions!
An [unowned self] in a Coordinator is okay. As the coordinator should live longer than any of its screens, a crash hints to lifecycle issues.
This cheat sheet is actually not bad! https://fuckingswiftui.com/
UIView animate does not delay if there are no changes. The completion block will be called immediately!
Wnat your UICollectionViewCell transparent? Set alpha on contentView! => Setting alpha on the UICollectionViewCell itself doesn’t work.