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by Ethan Saadia Staying Connected 🔗 In my previous post I discussed a theme Apple emphasized in the WWDC 2021 Keynote today – Staying Connected. Not only did Apple announce updates to communication...| Tumblr
By: Praveen Nagaraj This year’s WWDC focused a lot on bringing improved experiences across iOS and macOS rather than adding a whole lot of new features. 👏 There was a lot of focus on making apps more inclusive and designing for accessibility. ♿️ Here is a summary of all the improvements I think Tumblr can make to its iOS app to improve the user experience! 🎈 1. Better support for larger screen sizes 🖥 This year, Apple improved upon the multitasking experience for the iPad. Tumb...| Codrs
ALT ✅ Looking back at WWDC 2021 by Ethan Saadia Today was the last day of WWDC 2021. While the main event has concluded, WWDC Community Week continues throughout the weekend! The last few days of labs, sessions, meetups, and code have been exhilarating. There are still numerous ideas to explore, so I will keep releasing new tutorials and apps, and you can keep following along with me. This year I attended 15 Labs with Apple engineers, which were all incredible experiences to ask questions a...| Codrs
WWDC 2021 was a blast for me. I had a ton of fun watching all of the sessions and interacting with a ton of new people. I also had a lot of fun participating in the labs I requested. I would like to go over some of my favorite new things that Apple introduced this week; along with some of their great sessions! Siri Shortcuts 🖥 Siri Shortcuts are a very open space for app developers. They can build new functionality directly into a system app with millions of users. This year Apple brought ...| Codrs
We arrived at our fifth and final day of the event, with a sinking heart for not being able to see all the amazing sessions that Apple has brought to us. But I couldn’t keep myself from giving my two cents on the new way to optimize the product page in the App Store that emerged at WWDC21. ❤️ Get ready to optimize your App Store product page - WWDC 2021 - Videos - Apple Developer We have at our side the following elements that can be used to make a great first impression: app’s icon, ...| Codrs
Behind the Scenes of Pixar’s Toy Story 4 with USD 🤠 🧑🚀 🦖 🐖 by Ethan Saadia Hidden in the WWDC 2021 session “Create 3D workflows with USD,” Apple showed off the ability to view 3D scenes in real time with Preview. The video shows the 3D scene of the Antiques Mall from Toy Story 4 with each object selectable and exportable as its own USD file. This is all running live in the Preview app, which comes free and built-in on all Macs. USD is an open-source 3D file format deve...| Codrs
In iPadOS 15, Apple introduced a ton of new features that people have been enjoying on iOS for a year now. Specifically Apple has brought widgets and the app library to the iPad. The App Library does not have much of an affect on Tumblr, however widgets can. Designing Beautiful Widgets Apple has had a few sessions this WWDC talking about widgets. They had one on principles of great widgets and adding intelligence to your widgets. These sessions are really good to watch if you are wondering ab...| Codrs
By: Praveen Nagaraj Apple published a session on Tuesday that discussed using the keyboard ⌨️ to simplify navigation through an app’s views and view controllers on iPad. Though it may seem unnecessary, web applications like Twitter have proven the usability of a pure keyboard-based navigation. This is not just for ease-of-use, but also accessibility ♿️. Another one of Apple’s key focuses for this WWDC was building increasingly inclusive and accessible applications. This is seen as...| Codrs
🤯 Turn photos into 3D in just one click with Object Capture UI An app created by Ethan Saadia TLDR: Download the app here This week I shared an example of 3D scanning a koala with Object Capture using RealityKit on iOS 15. After capturing images on iPhone, iPad, or a separate camera, compatible Mac devices can stitch them together into a 3D model. Apple released two sample apps for Object Capture, one for iOS to take photos and a command line tool for macOS to create the model. Using the m...| Codrs
We must always know that an application, on any platform, requires many lines of code tailored by the developers, a well-built interface made by the designers, among other things, that may include many other professionals (even from other areas!), they had to carefully think, prototype and validate to ensure that I am here able to write and publish this post! 📝✍️ With that many elements at the table, of course, we might not be able to think of every scenario that our application will m...| Codrs
By: Praveen Nagaraj In my first post, I talked about how Tumblr isn’t taking advantage of larger devices, being a very media-centric application. Widgets The iOS 14 widget craze showed how much people were excited by the idea of having a new look for their spring board (home screens). Widgets from apps like Photos makes the spring board more personal for users. Yesterday, WWDC offered a session on more intelligent widgets, which got me searching… only to find that Tumblr didn’t offer an...| Codrs
Labs, Sessions, and Meetups (Oh my!) by Ethan Saadia Today was a busy Day 3 at WWDC 2021! I began the morning by watching a session detailing advanced graphics and rendering with RealityKit 2, including custom shaders, full control over meshes, and the ability to customise post-processing events. To prepare for my RealityKit Lab at the end of the day, I began trying out as many on the new features as I could in my previous projects and sample apps. As I prepared for my Object Capture Lab to l...| Codrs
My day today was mostly taken up by labs. I had one big one talking about the future of my App Jellycuts. The reason for this is because of how iOS 15 and macOS 12 have changed Shortcuts. To better fit this new method of Shortcuts sharing, I will have to do a lot of work, from rewriting a good chunk of my sharing code 🤯 to possibly making a whole macOS server 😅. All of this change got me thinking about how platforms like Tumblr need to adapt to new spaces. That is what I will be talking...| Codrs
You’ve probably already skipped those introductory screens that explain how the application works, a.k.a onboardings, or you’ve given up putting your information on a very long form. I know! I was also on that boat once! 👀👀 Although there are several super cool new technologies and features, it’s also necessary that we know how to apply them in a correct way, ensuring a more fluid and pleasing experience within the application. The same applies to releasing a new feature, for exam...| Codrs
SketchnotingDive into RealityKit 2 by Ethan Saadia The first session I watched today at WWDC 2021 was Dive into RealityKit 2, an overview of the updates to Apple’s newest augmented reality framework. At WWDC Community Week, GoodNotes highlighted sketchnoting in a tutorial session, so I thought I’d give this format a try and provide a quick visualization of the new updates. I’ve been writing RealityKit tutorials since its initial release at WWDC 2019 with my series RealityKit Snippets, a...| Codrs
Since iOS 14, apps such as Apple’s Health app and COVID-19 app have started adopting larger cells for table views. These cells do not span edge to edge, do not have the traditional divider, and have a larger height and font size. These new table view cells represent Apple’s continuous transition towards a more user-friendly and accessible design language. Below are images that show how the new Settings table view in iOS 15 (right) has changed to adopt this new design language, compared to...| Codrs
Tumblr for a new user on iOS I have been using Tumblr for the past week, before that, I have never really jumped into it. My first impression of the platform was that it was a more user choice-focused platform, kinda like Reddit. I got this impression from the Markdown and HTML editors that you can use to customize your blog and write posts. I was really impressed that a modern social media company still allowed the choice to edit custom HTML for blogs and a rich content editor for posts. How...| Codrs
Apple has always focused on providing a great experience, from the presentations to what it proposes for the developers. On the second day of the WWDC21 event, a theme that keeps coming back is the importance of a more inclusive and accessible design on all of the different application scopes. It can even be seen in the language that we use and look for reference, respecting different perspectives, adopting more accessibility features, making our design more inclusive, especially in the area ...| Codrs
3D Scanning with Object Capture by Ethan Saadia 🐨 Scanning a koala with just an iPhone! 📱 Object Capture is a new feature part of RealityKit that lets you create accurate 3D models just by taking photos of an object. I 3D scanned this koala by taking 64 photos of it from all angles with Apple’s sample capture app on my iPhone. RealityKit uses technology called photogrammetry to stitch together the overlapping parts of each photo, combining depth and accelerometer data if available, in...| Codrs
By: Praveen Nagaraj Day 1: Before writing this post, I took a deep dive into every single view on the Tumblr app on both iPhone and iPad. One thing that really struck out for me is Tumblr’s lack of optimization for the iPad. 😐 In today’s post, I just want to focus on that. 🤓 Tumblr is a very media-centric platform and needs to utilize the full potential of the iPad’s beautiful display. One thing that really sets Tumblr apart from other iOS apps (of other social platforms) is its u...| Codrs
by Ethan Saadia Staying Connected 🔗 In my previous post I discussed a theme Apple emphasized in the WWDC 2021 Keynote today – Staying Connected. Not only did Apple announce updates to communication...| Tumblr
