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As I make progress on Black Ink for iOS, I have taken care to add keyboard shortcuts to make the app more usable on an iPad with external keyboard. One standard behavior of iPadOS is that when an app supports keyboard shortcuts, simply...

From time to time, particularly when I’m working with xib files of a certain vintage, Xcode simply refuses to offer any inspector tools for the contents of a particular Interface Builder document. Instead of the typical controls for...

Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a spike in the number of Mac and iOS developers who are running into a specific code signing error while building their apps. I myself ran into it last week after saving a new version of an image...

After updating to Xcode 11.5 my release builds started failing because a failure in the “embedded binary validation” build step, which occurs after the last explicit build phase over which we as developers have the ability to...

When Apple updates Xcode, they usually add a slew of deprecations and warnings that might turn your otherwise warning-free project into a virtual hailstorm of yellow warning triangles. One of the warnings that popped up for me with the...

Since as long as I have been a programmer, bitwise operators have been an important but sometimes daunting part of my work. These are the programming tools with which you take a numerical value, let’s say seven, and manipulate it at...

Mike Ash shares interesting news that the latest Xcode SDKs include a change to the function prototype of Objective-C’s msgSend family of functions. Where objc_msgSend was previously defined in terms of the couple of parameters it...

Update: 3 November, 2019: As of Xcode 11 the altool command features a new parameter, “–list-providers” which makes it much easier to obtain the provider ID described below. See the updated documentation for more...

I recently had cause to take another look at Swish, my iOS app for generating white noise and static visuals. OK, the reason was Apple sending me an email notification that, because it has been over three years since I last updated the...

A colleague recently asked whether it was possible to connect a custom keyboard shortcut to the system-wide “Use grayscale” setting in the macOS Voiceover system preferences: I could not find any easy way to do this, and...

I’ve been experimenting in Xcode with the idea of using one workspace that contains ALL of my projects. The idea is to give me the ability to quickly jump between building/testing different apps, and to make it easier to do global...

I wrote several articles about Supporting Dark Mode on the Mac, including one about supporting Dark Mode for in-app web content. Today, Craig Hockenberry of The Iconfactory writes about the challenge of adapting browser-based web content....

This article is part of a series on Supporting Dark Mode in macOS applications. For the best experience, start with the Introduction and work your way through. If you’re using a web view the way a browser does, to show arbitrary...