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Customizing UISlider — Either color or image

We're working on a pretty useful — at least we hope so — feature right now. Part of this feature is a slightly customized UISlider [https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uislider?language=objc]. In the end, it should look pretty similar to the narrow Scollbar you know from UIScrollView: As this

(!QuickFix) != (QuickFix != nil)

A colleague of mine works on a pretty important feature. He uses a seperate git-branch for this, so that his changes can be reviewed and thoroughly tested before being merged into the app. While working on that feature, he fixed some easy-to-fix, but important bugs on this exact branch. In

Save NSSecureCoding-decoding for Dummies

After my last wrong assumption, that I don't need to look up easy things, I stumbled upon this assumption again. This week, I failed to implement NSSecureCoding the right way. In the end, I learned some things. I wanted to persist some data [https://nshipster.com/nscoding/] using NSSecureCoding [https:

Variable declaration in switch-case

Welcome back to Objective C-land! Last week, I doubted my own sanity more than once. One day, for example, I refactored some code to use an enum and I nearly dispaired on a simple switch-case, until I reminded myself that I've stumbled over this issue quite a while ago. But

Bordered Slicing in Xcode

This is another small blogpost about how I solved a little issue. This time it's about borded buttons, rounded corners and slicing. First things first: I got a new job as — surprise 🎉 — iOS developer and it's much, much better than the previous one. Let's hope, that it lasts much longer

SecItemDelete without limits

Together with a friend I'm working on a small app for iOS written in good ol' Objective-C. It's a (another) small timetracking application with an optional backend. The credentials for the backend are to be stored in the Keychain. Users should also be able to delete those credentials again, of