Moving to WatchOS 2
A while ago we released Gulps on the AppStore. Gulps is a simple water tracking app that also reminds you when to drink throughout the day. This was an app of "firsts" for me: first Swift app,…
Andrea Mazzini 11 min read
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Playing with UIDynamics in iOS 9
UIDynamics was a welcome addition to the iOS 7 SDK. It's basically a physics engine backing common UIViews, allowing us to define physics traits to the UI elements. The API is fairly…
Andrea Mazzini 8 min read
iOS9 notifications and Text Input
When iOS8 opened the API to have actionable notifications many of us were disappointed that the text input action used in Messages wasn't available. It turns out that with iOS9 this API is now…
Andrea Mazzini 2 min read
Gulps: new open source WatchKit app
We released a new app on the AppStore and decided to open source it. The app is called Gulps, a simple tracker of your daily water consumption. Gulps was a fun little side project built to learn a…
Andrea Mazzini 1 min read
Share data between WatchKit and your app with Realm
It's been a busy year for iOS developers. We got a slew of new toys to play with: a new version of iOS, new frameworks, a new language, new screen sizes and some new hardware to put on our wrists,…
Andrea Mazzini 8 min read
Fun with iBeacon
You probably know already what iBeacon is, but just to reiterate, iBeacon is the Apple way of saying Bluetooth 4 Low Energy. At the cost of sounding like a mindless drone, by 'the Apple way of' I…
Andrea Mazzini 6 min read