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Announcing Indie Watch 🚀— a newsletter for indie iOS devs

Indie Watch is an exclusive weekly hand-curated newsletter showcasing the best iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps from developers worldwide. The mission is to highlight the accomplishments and creativity of independent developers by providing a platform for them to share their ideas, their passion projects, and their stories. Every week, we’ll provide you with a sampling of the best new apps, profiles of up-and-coming developers, and the occasional freebie. If you’re interested in being included in the next release, send in your application!

I OS

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Announcing Indie Watch 🚀— a newsletter for indie iOS devs

Indie Watch is an exclusive weekly hand-curated newsletter showcasing the best iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps from developers worldwide.

The mission is to highlight the accomplishments and creativity of independent developers by providing a platform for them to share their ideas, their passion projects, and their stories.

Every week, we’ll provide you with a sampling of the best new apps, profiles of up-and-coming developers, and the occasional freebie. If you’re interested in being included in the next release, send in your application!

Things will be up and running shortly. So, make sure to subscribe if you’d like to stay up to date and receive emails when new content is published!

Oct 16, 2021

IOS Deep linking: URL Scheme vs Universal Links

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Juan F. Caracciolo

Great article clarifying the differences between a deep and universal link!

Great article clarifying the differences between a deep and universal link! I created a free developer tool for iOS developers to easily test deep/universal links against the iOS Simulator: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/deeplinkr/id1586244217?mt=12 I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Oct 8, 2021

Test Universal Links Locally iOS

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Santosh Botre

I got tired of typing that Terminal command and sending myself links to click on my device, so I…

I got tired of typing that Terminal command and sending myself links to click on my device, so I built a free developer tool for iOS teams that allows you to easily document, verify, and test your app's deep & universal links: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/deeplinkr/id1586244217?mt=12

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Sep 25, 2021

I Built A Free Deep & Universal Link Manager For iOS Developers

I’ve always found testing deep links to be really inconvenient and in most places I’ve worked they’re rarely covered by unit tests. So, I decided to make a free tool — DeepLinkr — to make it easier to document, share, and test an app’s collection of deep and universal links. …

Xcode

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I Built A Free Deep & Universal Link Manager For iOS Developers

Apr 27, 2021

Practical Tips for Junior iOS Developers

For those that don’t know me, I’ve been making iPhone apps since 2014 and working professionally since 2017 as an iOS developer. Along the way, I’ve worked for a variety of companies — from a few lesser-known startups in San Francisco to well-known companies like Turo, Scoop Technologies, and Porsche. …

Swift

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Practical Tips for Junior iOS Developers

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·Feb 8, 2021

Accessibility Standards & Tooling for iOS Teams

In most of my iOS roles, accessibility support has been a secondary concern. Fortunately, an employment opportunity in early 2020 afforded me a chance to work on a team that felt differently. Together, we worked to define accessibility best practices, standards, and workflows for our entire organization. This article describes…

I OS App Development

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Accessibility Standards & Tooling for iOS Teams

Jan 25, 2021

Image Filters: Gaussian Blur

Let’s take a detailed look at the implementation behind Gaussian blurs. It’s the image processing algorithm that enables image manipulations like this:

Gaussian Distribution

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Jan 22, 2021

Implementing Unix’s compress

Let’s take a look at the compression algorithm behind Unix’s compress and most .gif compression. The Lempel Ziv Welch [LZW] algorithm is a greedy lossless compression algorithm that works by replacing recurring patterns with shorter codes in order to save space. Lossless is a form of compression where no data…

Algorithms

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Jan 12, 2021

Understanding Image Contrast Algorithms

As a hobbyist photographer, I’ve always wondered how Apple Photos, Lightroom, and Photoshop implement image contrast adjustments. After spending some time reading into it, the approach is worth sharing. Let’s start with the basics. A histogram is simply a bar chart representing [in this case] different frequencies of colors in…

Computer Science

7 min read

Jan 11, 2021

Creating An Open-Source Translation Memory

I’ve always wanted to localize my personal apps, but I found it to be too expensive. Since many apps share the same vocabulary (News Feed, Dashboard, Forgot Password, Take Photo), it seemed silly to pay to translate words that some other development team must have previously paid to translate. So…

I OS

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