I hit a problem in our app Shareshot related to rendering of shadows using Core Image. Our shadows are a black image with blur applied, so the image is rgb(0,0,0) with alpha that varies from 1 for the darkest center of the shadow to 0 on the edges.
Tim Chaten was kind enough to invite me to chat about my app Captionista, iPad and Mac on episode #177 of iPad Pros podcast where we talk about the app’s origins and the challenges with social video captions and subtitles in general
(Originally posted as a tweet storm, preserved here for those who prefer an old fashioned post) I think the whole Apple and MSFT xCloud spat is not really much about MSFT and games and content review. It’s about preventing alternative app stores, which is a longstanding App Store rule. Buckle up! 👨🚒
Flint is our open source framework for tackling a lot of Apple platform boilerplate code. One of the many powerful things it gives you is support for Conditional Features in your apps. You define how your feature is toggled on or off, and your code is not allowed to even run the actions associated with the feature unless all those toggles are on. This post is about some great improvements to this mechanism and how […]
I recently started looking for interactive books for iPad to help encourage my youngest daughter to read. Unlike our older daughter she hasn’t got a huge desire to read, but she loves the iPad and great art so I thought I’d combine the two to see if we can increase her drive to read to herself.