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How to convert any Composable into an image

Converting the current view into a screenshot is well documented and supported with Compose APIs using the drawing modifiers. Using this technique you can capture a bitmap version of the view...

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SwiftUI GridViews: Detailed Guide

Along with StackViews, GridViews are one of the most commonly used UI element in SwiftUI. In this guide, I will demonstrate how to use the GridView and its cousin LazyGridView to meet various layout...

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Master SwiftUI StackViews: Visual Guide

StackViews in SwiftUI are probably the most frequently used UI elements. Sometimes aligning the contents of a stack view to your specifications can be tricky...

Pass data between screens with Jetpack Compose Navigation + Hilt

Navigating between screens in an Android application is a fundamental aspect of creating a seamless user experience...

Take photo or pick pictures with Jetpack Compose

Jetpack Compose, Google’s modern UI toolkit for Android, offers a declarative way to build beautiful and responsive user interfaces. One of its powerful features is the ability...

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PanelView — a better SplitView experience

The primary motivation behind building PanelView is that when it comes to UISplitView — Apple is quite opinionated...

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How to tile polygons in SwiftUI

A question came up from one of the readers that they were interested in tiling multiple polygons in a given frame. And that question led me here...

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Create transition animations for Jetpack Compose

If you are looking for a consistent way of animating screen transitions in Jetpack Compose, you came to the right place. Let’s dig in...

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eclypse integrates with ChatGPT

Using OpenAI’s ChatGPT for translations has become easier than ever. In fact, if you are using eclypse, it is a single button click. Now that eclypse has...

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How to draw a polygon in SwiftUI

This is the follow up story that achieves a similar result in SwiftUI. I will walk through step-by-step how to create a equilateral polygon with...

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How to create a Polygon in UIKit with Swift

We would like to draw an equilateral Polygon within any given rectangular frame using UIKit and Swift...

How to reduce Firestore reads

If you are using Firebase Firestore as your data storage for your app or game, you might have noticed that you can easily reach the daily limit on the free-tier...

How to add shadow to a UIButton

Many iOS developers have been there. Why is it so difficult to add a shadow around a UIButton? This is especially...

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CountryKit: the framework Apple forgot to build

CountryKit is a plug-and-play library that includes a list of all countries and their meta data plus a highly configurable picker view...

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How to localize assets in Unity — Part II

In Part I of the series, we wrote about how to make the necessary configuration changes in Unity to enable asset localization...

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How to localize assets in Unreal Engine

With Unreal Engine you can localize text and assets that you may be using for your game. Almost all asset types in Unreal can be localized...

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How to localize assets in Unity — Part I

In order to reach a wider audience with your game, you might find that you should localize certain assets in your game...

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How to add a Search Bar to a macCatalyst application

We got inspired by a StackOverflow question and the accepted answer no longer seemed to have worked...

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Localization challenges in gaming industry

Developers in game industry may face a different type of challenge that is often overlooked...

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Batch Translate in eclypse

One of the most requested feature in eclypse is the ability to translate keys en masse. We call this functionality Batch Translate...

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Translatability Part II: Dialects

You use eclypse’s translatability feature when some of your keys do not need to be translated to all of your target languages. This is a 2-part blog...

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Introducing Translatability — Part I

Now you can be more productive by quickly identifying those translations that don’t need to be translated after all...

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Navigating seas with KMM — an iOS Developer story

In this post, we will talk about how to get the most value from KMM, especially for iOS development...

eclypse introduces milestones feature

If you used a version control software such as Github, you might be familiar with the concept of milestones. Generally, you use the milestones for your release workflow...

Using spreadsheets for localization is a bad idea

You might have been here. You are using a spreadsheet to manage your translatable content for your app...

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Create responsive UI with Compositional Layouts

CollectionViews are really powerful and they allow developers to build complex layouts...

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