Alexander Blach

My friend @Lextar just released a new version of the @Textastic code editor for iPhone and iPad 🚀 If you’ve been waiting to download this well-known app, now it’s free to download! 🎉 apps.apple.com/us/app/textast…

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@simonbs Me too, I only started to reply here because of the original posts.

@Lextar And sorry for the late replies. I’m spending more time on Mastodon than Twitter these days 😄

I’ve spent *so much* time working with UIKeyboardLayoutGuide the past few days and I think I’ve now found a bug in UIKit. Calling -setConstraints(:activeWhenNearEdge:) for the same edge in two different sibling views only activates the constraints in one of the views (FB9788911)

@simonbs I would be very interested to see how you did it!

@Lextar The solutions you describe here sound much like some of the workarounds I had to apply too. It was a tough battle getting views to be placed relative to the keyboard in the way I wanted. I’ll be happy to sig out my code and share it if you need it.

@simonbs I also set constraints that do nothing (e.g. topAnchor equal to topAnchor of same view) using the UITrackingLayoutGuide methods (e.g. a "nearBottomConstraint"). In viewDidLayoutSubviews I can look at nearBottomConstraint.active to determine if the keyboard is near the bottom.

@simonbs I have a solution now: I set followsUndockedKeyboard to true and pin a UIView to the keyboard layout guide. I then read the view's frame in viewDidLayoutSubviews to get the location of the keyboard on screen and can apply my own logic. (The view is orange in the screenshot).

@simonbs In Runestone, you move the line and column view up when the collapsed shortcuts bar is below it. How do you do that without the keyboard layout guide? I'm using UIKeyboardDidChangeFrameNotification but that gives me a full-width rect in UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey.

@simonbs Wow, ok. I'm struggling to detect the position of the shortcuts bar (when an external keyboard is attached). The keyboard notifications always return a large rect, even when there is only a small overlay on the right side of the screen.

@simonbs Do you know if this is still necessary in iOS 16? Have you received an answer from Apple to your bug report?

I solved this with by collecting constraints that are relative to the keyboardLayoutGuide and grouping them by the edge they’re active for. After collecting the constraints I call -installConstraints(on:) which calls -setConstraints(:activeWhenNearEdge:) once for each edge.

@Upperbeech Ja, hier bin ich mir nur noch nicht sicher, wie ich die App am besten an das große Display anpasse. Also ob ich die gleiche Ansicht wie am iPhone, aber als Split-View (z.B. links die Liste der Module und rechts die Diagramme) mache oder was eigenes, das den Platz besser ausnutzt.

@Lextar Hallo, ist auch eine Anpassung fürs iPad geplant?

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@krzyzanowskim Oh. Yeah, I see it here in Germany.

@Lextar that is available in few countries only

HELP

@krzyzanowskim Apple One Premium should add an additional 2 TB.

my option is to downgrade, that is exactly the opposite I need

@Aivars_Meijers @krzyzanowskim Receipts can be verified by StoreKit 2. You can still perform the validation yourself if you want to, but it's not necessary. I have an autorenewing subscription in my app without having to maintain a server.

@Lextar @krzyzanowskim Don't you need to do receipt validation anymore? That was the biggest downside of the StoreKit if you don't want to deal with your own backend.

Revenue.Cat vs Glassfy.io 🤺🥷

@krzyzanowskim I just don't see the incentive to give RevenueCat its share when StoreKit 2 is on the same level of "easy". Yes, the data is not real time, but I can wait a day.

@Lextar one can always switch to/from own implementation, it's a matter of convenience and quick start. The last time I implemented StoreKit1 it took a bit too much time and still failed randomly whenever apple's backend felt festive. There's a value in such services to quickstart

@krzyzanowskim Yes, but no dependence on a service which can decide to increase its share at any time

@Lextar yes, but also too high OS version dependency

@michael_tigas Thanks for sharing your journey. Subscribed!

I've also already shared my first piece too! 🙂 michaeltigas.substack.com/p/a-return-to-…

Friday evening I put thoughts to keyboard after nearly two years, and realised how much I missed writing. ✍️ So I decided to start a newsletter about my indie apps and share what i've learnt that's helped me earn a sustainable income. michaeltigas.substack.com #buildinpublic