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…

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…

Originally published on https://rudrank.blog Since last December, I’ve wanted to build my music app. I started with the design out of boredom from not studying for end semester exams. Initially, I wanted to make a Spotify client that focused more on individual songs instead of playlists. But, I felt the…

Gradient Game is my first app on the App Store. I started working on it in early August 2019, when I wanted to improve upon a SwiftUI tutorial and create something of my own. While I was really excited about shipping it on the day of the launch of iOS…