This is an archived newsletter issue published on December 19, 2021. It’s 18th December already. I can’t believe that 2021 is almost over. It was like March a few days ago, and now it’ll be Christmas in a few days. This year has been different for many of you, including…

I am working on a new app FusionMix, that revolves around creating the same “Blend for Spotify” experience for Apple Music users. I am inclining towards the user’s personal Apple Music station to achieve it. Working with the station is straightforward. Apple Music API has a dedicated endpoint, and we…

Make your text and views accessible for different font sizes — I introduced myself to the world of dynamic text sizes back in August 2019. My country’s popular food delivery apps didn’t change the text size when changing the system font size. (they still don’t) I wondered what APIs are required to increase the text sizes and alter the view accordingly. …

Disabling the animations while running UI tests to ensure no flakiness — Originally published on my blog: https://rudrank.blog/fix-animations-in-ui-tests-copy While running my UI tests for a UI refactor, I noticed that two of them failed repeatedly. I wasn’t sure what was going wrong until I remembered replacing the normal buttons with a conditional view that changed the text. And I added a subtle…

Going through the user’s feedback to understand what their needs are — Originally published on my personal blog — https://rudrank.blog/roadmap-feedback While creating my goals for 2022, the major thing I want to do this year is ship products, especially the features requested by the users of my app. I have this pet project that I love to work on — Chroma Game…

Learning and earning can go well together — I know internships are for learning and all, and one should focus more on the learning aspect instead of the financial one. But, I saw internships as a learning journey along with fulfilling my materialistic needs. Now that I’ve graduated, I want to curate the experience of negotiating in each…

Let’s Shazam everything — WWDC always have the best collection of music to groove to. During WWDC ’19, my friend used his Android phone to recognise songs played and made a playlist out of them. My iPhone lacked such capability back then (or I wasn’t aware of any). …

I wanted to explore the tech industry from the first year of college, and the best way, in my opinion, was through internships. I got the opportunity to start my career interning at a small startup, then working for an open-source organization, a one-person team, a client/product startup, Apple, and…

MusicKit for Swift makes it far easier to authenticate. No hassle of generating a JWT. — The first part of the series is on authenticating yourself as a developer of the Apple Developer Program. Earlier, it used to be a long process and was a pain. Now, with MusicKit, it is as simple as a checkmark. Old Way Summarising the older process - Register a new key with…