Chris Mash

If your UI for a text box looks like this, it’s clear you hate your users and don’t understand UX 😭#NotNamingNames

@AngotraPriyanka Pure wisdom #BeatTheSystem

@CJMash Always have on you, summer clothes, a jumper and an umbrella. Don't rely on The Man to tell you the weather :D

Someone explain this to me… how can the chance of rain be 0% all day but rain is expected in half an hour for 19 mins? #TheyreLyingToUs #WakeUpSheeple #GovernmentControlledRain #HelpMeWeatherNerds

It’s new iOS app release day! Upcoming Events presents your iOS Calendar events in a slightly more streamlined and controllable way. Plus it’s yellow. apps.apple.com/gb/app/upcomin…

Ever struggled with a lack of app logs from XCUITests in CI? chris-mash.medium.com/extracting-app…

Swift 6 is totes coming in September, time to get ready! chris-mash.medium.com/swift-6-is-com…

A blog on preparing for Swift 6, which you should read just to enjoy the unholy abomination of an AI generated featured image 😆 chris-mash.medium.com/preparing-for-…

Been a while since I posted a blog but here’s a new one on some tips for good unit tests: chris-mash.medium.com/writing-good-u…

Very last minute, but two people have had to drop out of iOSDevUK at the last minute - they'd love a refund if anyone wants to buy their tickets... we can do it with or without accom...

@IOSDEVUK Are there fast talks planned this year? Don’t think I’ve seen any mention, maybe their mention tends to come later?

Excited to add Natalia Panferova and Rich Turton to our already packed list of speakers. iosdevuk.com/speakers Where else can you get an iOS conference with 4 two hour seminars and 25 great speakers for just £230?

@OliEdis True dat. Is it just the first review of an app, or do updates also need as long? I heard the updates are meant to be quicker, but not sure by how much!

Having to wait days for Apple to do an app review of a TestFlight build is dumb

@mortengregersen I have trouble in one of my iOS apps where the accent colour from assets is ignored and the default blue is used. Seems entirely random!

Something tells me that no one uses SwiftUI on tvOS... 🤔 The Color.accentColor doesn't work. I thought it was only in HeyAIku.app (yes, it's coming to tvOS as well 😅), but a new project from Xcode's tvOS template has the same issue... 🙄 Feedback filed: FB12207865

@rudrank Hobby developer -> can do just 17 as soon as the beta is out 😁

Indie developer -> can do iOS 16 and 17 🥰

How I track the expiry dates of my in-dev iOS apps across the multiple devices they’re installed on: chris-mash.medium.com/using-provisio… I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and finally got round to it!

iOSDevUK will be back in September, call for speakers open now!

@RwoltX I rely on my own app which has served me very well personally. It needs a bit of a UX overhaul, which I plan to get round too eventually! apps.apple.com/gb/app/insiste…

Is there a reminders/todo app that you swear by? Is Reminders good enough? looking for something that creates beautiful harmony from batshit chaos

@flarup Ohhhh is THAT why I had a massive spike across all my apps years ago… I thought the stats just got borked!

When you see a spike and think that you’re featured, only to find out that someone downloaded your game 9.999 times on an educational license 😅

@tundsdev Wait… that’s illegal… 😅

Group in SwiftUI really shines if you need to quickly apply the same style to multiple views without the need of a custom view modifier (waiting for code reviews now 😂) I’m working on something new that aint a YT vid 👀 and who’s your fave Pokemon? mine is easily Charizard 🔥

@jnStehlik @AndyIbanezK .count has to count the whole array, .isEmpty only has to check if there’s at least one item and then can stop

@AndyIbanezK Is this just about convention, or is one method more performant? Because for some reason, array.count != 0 is more readable to me than !array.isEmpty 🤪

Everytime I see someone doing array.count == 0 instead of array.isEmpty, I die a little inside.

@stuartthull @RobRWAPP I hear Google’s standard is that it should still have an a11y label so that poor sighted users, who can see there’s something there but not the detail, don’t miss out

@RobRWAPP Adds nothing, so decorative for me.