Been using XAMPP Portable on my Windows machine for some years now. Always a pain to upgrade the PHP version. Noting down the steps for future reference. Run phpinfo() and check Architecture (x86, x64) and Thread Safety (enabled, disabled). Go to https://windows.php.net/download and download the correct zip file for the new PHP version. You may …
Sample of page loaded in web view: <html> <body> <script> function getWindowInfo() { return { width: window.innerWidth || document.body.clientWidth, height: window.innerHeight || document.body.clientHeight } }; </script> </body> </html> In a UIView or UIViewController: import WebKit // Enable Javascript in web view let config = WKWebViewConfiguration() let prefs = WKPreferences() prefs.javaScriptEnabled = true config.preferences = prefs …
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As mentioned in my previous post on Fix for Google Analytics pod not working in Swift framework a few months ago, I was helping to refactor a client’s outsourced mobile SDKs. Last month, one of their clients had issues using the iOS SDK in their Objective-C app. Turns out that the Swift framework, i.e. the …
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Been playing with ExoPlayer in Android and trying to resize a view to fit the aspect ratio of the video being played, i.e. fill the view with the video. References: Change resize mode for ExoPlayer Change aspect ratio of SurfaceView for ExoPlayer video 5-part series on building video player using ExoPlayer import android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams; import com.google.android.exoplayer2.Player.EventListener; …
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The usual workflow for contributing to open-source code is to fork the original repository to your account, create a feature branch, write the code and submit a pull request to the original repository. One thing to take note is to keep your forked repository up to date with the original repository. I always forget how …
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When we design a user interface (UI) for our application, we want it to be user-friendly, for the user to have a good user experience (UX). How about application programming interfaces (API)? Shouldn’t an API be designed to be user-friendly as well? And in this case, who are the main users/consumers of APIs? Developers, of …
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Attended a workshop on “Introduction to iOS Development with Swift 4” last year on 07 Oct 2017. Got a better idea of Optionals and penned down some notes in a GitHub gist. Thought it would be better to put them in a blog post to make it more accessible 🙂 The gist of it is …
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Reference: StackOverflow – Print Struct name in swift Here’s the code for printing the properties of an object func printProperties(_ object: Any) { var properties = [String: Any]() Mirror(reflecting: object).children.forEach { (child) in if let property = child.label { properties[property] = child.value } } print(object) print(type(of: object)) print(properties) } How the output would look like …
Recently, I have been working on a mobile app SDK for a client, both in Android and iOS. The Android SDK is packaged as an AAR while the iOS is packaged as a Swift framework. The SDK uses Google Analytics. The problem arose when using the Google Analytics iOS SDK – it works fine when …
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Had a chat recently with a colleague and the topic of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) came up. Whenever I talk about concepts or technical stuff with other people, I typically try to explain it in a way that is easy to understand for a non-technical person. It is a way of challenging myself cos if …
