Tried json vs plist parsing performance. JSONDecoder and PropertyListSerialization take almost the same amount of time. whackylabs.com/swift/ios/js...
JSON vs Plist
I recently watched an old WWDC video. The actual content of the video is not relevant but there was this one frame in the video that actually caught my eye. It was about parsing speeds between JSON, X...
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🤖 Jetpack Compose in React Native is here Expo UI in SDK 55 exposes real Compose & SwiftUI components, not JS reimplementations. Material Design 3 on Android, native SwiftUI on iOS. Deets in @kudochien.dev's blog: expo.dev/blog/expo-ui-in-sdk-55-jetpack-compose-now-available-for-react-native-apps
Expo UI in SDK 55: Jetpack Compose now available for React Native apps
Expo UI in SDK 55 brings Jetpack Compose to beta and aligns SwiftUI APIs with Apple's conventions, so your native framework knowledge transfers directly.
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Thinking about making a chess game where you see two AI powered bots playing each other whackylabs.com/js/objc/ios/...
The simplest transition effect with one line of code! 😲 whackylabs.com/swift/ios/ui... #iosdev #transition #tipoftheday
Always wanted to write about UIKit Dynamics whackylabs.com/swift/ios/ui...
Juice it up with UIKit Dynamics
One of my favorite framework on iOS has to be UIKit Dynamics and not enough people talk about it. But this is going to change today. Let’s build a color palette generator and have some fun with UIKit ...
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The Vulkan Working Group has published, Building a Simple Game Engine, a new in-depth tutorial for developers ready to move beyond the basics and into professional-grade engine development. Learn more: www.khronos.org/blog/new-vul... #vulkan #tutorial #programming #gpu #gameengine
the perfect app switched UX already existed, and you killed it. Now I have to reach top corner to access controls
I wanted to try and see for myself the work it takes to wrap a native view for use within react native whackylabs.com/ts/react-nat...
Lets make a React Native Host Component
They say if you really wanna know how React Native works make a host component. So that is the task for the day.
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I've been thinking about what mobile tech stack looks like in 2026
Currently writing the next post: how to animate text along a path on a canvas 🖌️
I made a video explaining, step by step, how to implement the new Liquid Glass bottom tabs in your Expo app! Link: youtu.be/L5f8Gy91Gv4
nobody: nothing apple: "and with the same declarative style that has made SwiftUI so popular, now my networking code has a similar feel to my user interface code" the code 👽
watching microsoft engineers fight their own AI as it's allowed to publicly run wild across massive in-production projects is certainly ... something github.com/dotnet/runti...
[iOS][globalization] Implement CompareInfo.Version for hybrid globalization by Copilot · Pull Request #115762 · dotnet/runtime
Issue Currently, CompareInfo.Version throws a PlatformNotSupportedException on iOS/macCatalyst when running in hybrid globalization mode. This implementation provides the Unicode version informatio...
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Announcing React Native Reanimated 4 🐴 Long-awaited CSS Animations and Transitions support is here! ✨ Available now in Beta. Read more 👇
So yes after getting my hands dirty with Kotlin multiplatform the obvious next step would be to try Compose multiplatform. Which I did. And yes it’s a game changer. whackylabs.com/swift/kotlin...
Compose multiplatform is real!
So yes after getting my hands dirty with Kotlin multiplatform the obvious next step would be to try Compose multiplatform. Which I did. And yes it’s a game changer.
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What better way to start the new year than trying out the Kotlin Multiplatform... whackylabs.com/swift/kotlin...
Hello Kotlin Multiplatform
What better way to start the new year than trying out the Kotlin Multiplatform.
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The @expo.dev examples repo is a great resource for bootstrapping your next big app idea. The templates can be pulled via the create-expo-app command. I’m trying out the with-tv example which supports tvOS & Android TV platforms 📺🚀 github.com/expo/examples
GitHub - expo/examples: Example projects that demonstrate how to use Expo APIs and integrate Expo with other popular tools
Example projects that demonstrate how to use Expo APIs and integrate Expo with other popular tools - expo/examples
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I hope there's a very good reason for this UICollectionView .register(_:forCellWithReuseIdentifier:) UITableView .register(_:forCellReuseIdentifier:)
I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain
I just found out you can right-click an error on #Godot console, and if it's a engine internal error it opens the exact line in the repo source code :O (yeah I'm new to all this)
I very recently learned it the hard way that objc selectors can not be async ... whackylabs.com/swift/objc/a...
