iOS lock screen passcode is a good example of vibrancy (the circle around the digits).

Making blur effect with vibrancy in interface builder is easy using: “Visual Effect Views With and Vibrancy”:

Making Facial Gestures or, Using CIDetector with Streaming Video

Since iOS7 Apple introduced new feature to the CIDetector, specifically smile and blinks detection.

I’ve wondered if i could “feed” it streaming video instead of static image and get make something like a live smile facial gesture be registered as an action on the device.

Here is a demo video of it:

Ellipsis (plural ellipses) is a series of dots that usually indicates an intentional omission of a word, sentence, or whole section from a text without altering its original meaning.1

In UILabel ellipsis ‘…’ show up when text is to long to fit in label frame:

Currenlty in UILabel there isn’t an easy way to customize the ellipses and change them to something like in Appstore reviews:

Cool

Storyboards are great to use, save time and allows developers to visualise the whole (or part) of app, in terms of screen relationships.

Problem: Storyboards fail at runtime, note compile time

Just paid for the ticket.

(suggested equity)

This blog is:

• Running Octopress
• Hosted on github.io with custom domain options
• Setup the DNS entries using namecheap
• Installed this theme: foxslide

All for the price of registering the domain at Goaddy.

TLDR: This is my general process of modifying code from Github (or other) that I use (could be an Octopress theme or a cocoapod or any other open source code one might use), all while maintaining the ability to update and contributing back (sometimes)…

How to maintain iOS animation code. When to use Core Animations vs UIView Animations.