Behind my computer ...
Most of my blogs are about my physical projects, my tools like my 3d printer, my Rigol power supply and scope and my beloved soldering iron. But, truth to be told, most of my time is spent behind my computer. Today I’m going to give you a rundown of tools and ingredients I use the most when working on my Mac.
Become an awesome iOS developer!
When I was 11, my aunt gave me the perfect present: a book to learn how to program in Basic. I was hooked. Years later, I taught myself PHP, got some Pascal and C at school and sniffed up some Javascript on the road. The fact that I had quite a lot of programming experience, and wasn’t able to develop Apps for my beloved iPhone really frustrated me …
Enlarge your ... Hit Area!
While I was recently working on a small iOS Swift side project, I stumbled on the issue of poor usability due to a small hitarea of some tiny buttons. Although the icons in the buttons were clear, I noticed tapping the small buttons wasn’t very easy. To solve this, I created my own buttons by subclassing the UIButton class.
Parallax Table View
A lot of iOS Apps nowadays use table views with images as a header. Yahoo News Digest is a good example, but misses a parallax effect to make it a bit less ordinary. I wanted to check out how simple it is to create such a Table View in Swift.
Swifty Bluetooth using nRF8001-Swift
While working on one of my Arduino projects, I was in the need for a simple wrapper for communication with the Adafruit Bluefruit LE nRF8001 Breakout.Since I was unable to find one (especially one that was Swift-ready) I wrote a Swift-wrapper myself. It is based on a Bluefruit LE Connect.It has all the basic needs for basic two way communication and is easy to implement.Check out nRF8001-Swift on GitHub!