#2024

How to make the iPhone Continuity Camera work properly in Chrome

Fixing the problem where an iPhone Continuity Camera is not recognized in Google Meet when using a chromium browser.

#2020

iPhones, Pixels and lazy Android developers

The Bentwits #

So Ben Thompson¹ recently tweeted:

I’ve been using Android for the last couple of weeks, and honestly, the core OS is pretty good!
The big problem is that Android apps are garbage relative to iOS apps. If developers actually care about pushing back against Apple they should give a damn. They don’t.

He then went on to attribute the garbage quality of Android apps to developer laziness. This understandably infuriated some of us #AndroidDev unleashing the droid rage. To Ben’s credit, he has since deleted the specific tweet calling out developer laziness.

#2019

Is iOS starting to get fragmented?

I’ve been dipping my toes into some iOS development recently. Nothing too crazy, just pairing with some colleagues and trying to see how we can jointly improve the technical design on both platforms .¹

It so happens that Apple just finished it’s annual conference WWDC, so I’ve been following the announcements closer this timer around. In that process, I ran across a tweet (from Jeff Nadeau who’s a developer working at Apple):

#2018

Squircle and sweating the design details

This is such a fantastic post on how Apple sweats certain almost unnoticeable design details.

I picked up a whole bunch of nuggets reading this article:

…iPhone X rounded screen corners don’t use the classic rounding method where you move in a straight line and then arc using a single quadrant of a circle. Instead, the math is a bit more complicated. Commonly called a squircle, the slope starts sooner, but is more gentle.

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kau.sh | Ios

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