iOS Music Player on the Lock Screen
Building a music player app and want the system to display the current track information on the device lock screen and in the multimedia controls? You can use a now playing info center to set…
Building a music player for iOS
There are already a few tutorials about building building an app that plays music on iOS. Why am I writing a whole new post about it then? Most of the existing tutorials focus on the…
Why you should start using RxSwift for iOS
So, you have heard about RxSwift. You see it ever so frequently in the wild. But whenever you try to wrap your head around it, it hurts. Here's what the Github page says about RxSwift:…
Why you should start using RxJava on Android
So, you have heard about RxJava. You see it ever so frequently in the wild. But whenever you try to wrap your head around it, it hurts. Here's what the Github page says about RxJava:…
Swift constructs for Kotlin
If you have used Swift for iOS development, chances are that you really miss its flexibility when developing for Android with Java. Kotlin brings all the Swift goodness to Java that combines OO and functional…
Add a circle around UIImage
For an app I worked on recently, we had the need to add a circle around an UIImage. When using a UIImageView, it is pretty straightforward to add a border to the image view. Unfortunately,…