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User Interface

Add a height-flexible placeholder to your UITextView

Add a height-flexible placeholder to your UITextView

Once you have tasted SwiftUI, this kind of UIKit lacking makes you wish you could refactor a client's whole codebase at a snap from your fingers. At least the UI side of it. But, alas, there is no magic spell for that. Yet. What kind of lacking? UITextView doesn't have

Make your UIButtons come to life

Make your UIButtons come to life

After giving our UIViews' both shadows AND rounded corners, today we will learn how to animate UIButtons and make them visually respond to our users' touch!

Add a bottom divider to your SwiftUI view!

Add a bottom divider to your SwiftUI view!

Where we learn to look around thoroughly before blindly trusting strangers.

Give your UIViews and UIButtons some rounded edges and a shadow!

Give your UIViews and UIButtons some rounded edges and a shadow!

Somehow, making a button rounded, and then adding a shadow to it, seems to be more difficult than it should. Here's how to do it in Swift!

Localize your push notifications in Node.js

Localize your push notifications in Node.js

Being a backend developer, there's an unusual thing with push notifications. Devices display what we send. The clients don't have a say in it; they can't remodel and transform them. Meaning, we basically have to do some UI (User Interface), and localize it.