A Quicksilver Chanukah: Day 1
Ellie's Blog22 Dec 2019
I started this year with a blog post about the state of Quicksilver where I set a goal for myself: get web support for important game development crates upstreamed.
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top 21%Running Android modularized unit tests on your CI server
Overflow - Buffer Resourcesby Joe Birch20 Dec 2019
Header Photo by Icons8 Team on Unsplash Modularizing your Android projects can bring a number of different advantages to your team.
What Is JavaScript Made Of? — overreacted
overreacted20 Dec 2019
What Is JavaScript Made Of? December 20, 2019 During my first few years of using JavaScript, I felt like a fraud. Even though I could build websites with frameworks, something was missing.
Data Structure and Algorithm applied to iOS
Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier19 Dec 2019
Data Structure and Algorithm applied to iOS When asked about data structure and algorithm for an iOS development role, there is always this idea that it’s not a knowledge needed.
Modular iOS Architecture @ Just Eat
Alberto De Bortoliby Alberto De Bortoli19 Dec 2019
The journey we took to restructure our mobile apps towards a modular architecture. Originally published on the Just Eat Engineering Blog.
D8 Library Desugaring – Jake Wharton
Jake Wharton18 Dec 2019
18 December 2019 Note: This post is part of a series on D8 and R8, Android's new dexer and optimizer, respectively. For an intro to D8 read "Android's Java 8 support".
XCUITests for accessibility
Mobile A11yby a11y@mobilea11y.com (Mobile A11y)16 Dec 2019
For a while now I’ve been looking at possibilities for automated accessibility testing on iOS. Unfortunately, I’ve not found any option so far that I’m happy with.
Resources
Mobile A11yby a11y@mobilea11y.com (Mobile A11y)1 Dec 2019
This is a personally curated list of resources I have used and think others may find helpful too. I’m always looking for new high quality mobile accessibility and inclusion resources to add here.
Differentiable Path Tracing on the GPU/TPU
Eric Jangby noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)29 Nov 2019
This blog post is a tutorial on implementing path tracing, a physically-based rendering algorithm, in JAX.
Concerning Jetpack Compose
Chris Keenan Codesby Christopher Keenan21 Nov 2019
The Jetpack Compose library provides the ability to create declarative and reactive UIs written in Kotlin for Android.
About Mobile A11y
Mobile A11yby a11y@mobilea11y.com (Mobile A11y)16 Nov 2019
About Mobile A11y# Mobile A11y is a blog about building accessible mobile apps written by a mobile developer and accessibility expert.
Marco.org
Marco.orgby Marco Arment13 Nov 2019
After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it. Two years ago, I wrote a wishlist to fix the MacBook Pro, and the 16-inch doesn’t actually deliver most of it.
SwiftUI Accessibility
Mobile A11yby a11y@mobilea11y.com (Mobile A11y)6 Nov 2019
Accessibility is important. We can take that as a given. But as iOS devs we’re not always sure how to make the most of the accessibility tools that Apple have provided us.
Computing Receptive Fields of Convolutional Neural Networks
Distillby Andr; Eacute; Araujo; Wade Norris; Jack Sim4 Nov 2019
Mathematical derivations and open-source library to compute receptive fields of convnets, enabling the mapping of extracted features to input signals.
D8 Optimizations – Jake Wharton
Jake Wharton30 Oct 2019
30 October 2019 Note: This post is part of a series on D8 and R8, Android's new dexer and optimizer, respectively. For an intro to D8 read "Android's Java 8 support".
SwiftUI Accessibility: User Settings
Mobile A11yby a11y@mobilea11y.com (Mobile A11y)27 Oct 2019
SwiftUI allows us to read environmental values that might affect how we want to present our UI. Things like size classes and locale for example.
Software engineer, it's okay to not have a side project
Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier19 Oct 2019
There is a believe that any software developer must contribute or have a side project to work on. Even if it’s great to have, I think there is something bigger at stake doing that.
SwiftUI Accessibility: Attributes
Mobile A11yby a11y@mobilea11y.com (Mobile A11y)18 Oct 2019
When a customer enables an assistive technology to navigate your app the interface that technology navigates isn’t exactly the same as the one visible on the screen.
Better Custom Views with Delegates
zsmb.coby Márton Braun17 Oct 2019
Introduction Reusable UI components are all the rage these days. Everyone and their dog has their own design system and their set of components that their apps are built up from - especially tech...
Making Content Accessible
Web Browser Engineering15 Oct 2019
So far, we’ve focused on making the browser an effective platform for developing web applications. But ultimately, the browser is a user agent.