iOS 13 – eMpTy Theory

Nicely Formatted Lists with ListFormatter

Last time we took a look at the very useful RelativeDateTimeFormatter to create localized strings describing date differences programmatically. In this post we’ll look at a better way to handle presenting lists to your users. As programmers, it’s pretty common to have to take a list of objects (e.g. apples, bananas, oranges) and express theContinue reading “Nicely Formatted Lists with ListFormatter”

Using UITabBarAppearance for Tab Bar changes in iOS 13

With iOS 13, Apple finally made some long overdue changes to support more effective customizations of the tab bars, and tool bars in your apps. The new UITabBarAppearance, UIBarAppearance, and related classes lets developers easily modify not just the basics like background and selected colors but spacing, text attributes, badging, and positioning. Creating subtle effectsContinue reading “Using UITabBarAppearance for Tab Bar changes in iOS 13”