Can you test force touch on the simulator or use the taptic engine in your apps?  
Is the keyboard in  
i OS 9 finally usable again?  
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Just a quick request before we get into the links this week.  
I'm based in Bucharest this month and  
I'd love to meet up with any i OS developers slash designers slash etc... while I'm here.  
If you're local, drop  
me a mail (just reply) and we'll organise something!  
Dave Verwer  
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NEWS  
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i OS 9 Adoption: Looking Good!  
It's been a bit of a slow news week after the frenzy of announcements  
and releases in the last month.  
It's good to see that i OS 9 adoption is still climbing steadily but  
as predicted, things are starting to slow down a bit.  
Since this article by Ellen Shapiro was  
published on Monday the numbers have of course risen, but much more slowly.  
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TOOLS  
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SB Shortcut Menu Simulator  
While the menu options in the i OS simulator for setting the  Force Touch  
Pressure  look so tempting, unfortunately they currently only work on watch OS.  
I'm sure that this  
will be addressed in a future release but until then, Conrad Kramer has put together this handy  
(and kinda crazy) hack to simulate quick actions over TCP.  
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Blade  
It can be a pain resizing images ready for an asset catalog, only to have to repeat it every  
time you make a change.  
Blade automates the process and performs all of the resizing for you, just  
create definitions for what sizes you need in a Bladefile and off it goes.  
I'm not sure what  
resizing method it's using so you'll want to check the results yourself but the output of the  
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looked great to me!  
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github dot com  
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CODE  
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Using Taptic Engine on i OS  
So the 6S and 6S Plus have way more subtlety available with vibration due  
to the taptic engine, but what does it allow us developers to do?  
It's not great news unfortunately  
as we can't really take advantage of it at all.  
However, Dal Rupnik has been digging through the  
private AP Is and found some interesting methods to have a play with.  
Who knows if we'll ever see  
this kind of thing in a future version of i OS but I'd say it's probably quite likely.  
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unifiedsense dot com  
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Protocol Oriented Programming with UI Kit  
Great post by Tyler Tillage which goes beyond using  
protocol oriented programming with your own classes and instead concentrates on how you can  
interact with UI Kit using protocol extensions.  
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captechconsulting dot com  
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Async  
I liked this library for simplifying the syntax of GCD in Swift.  
Much cleaner and more  
readable than nested calls to dispatch async.  
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github dot com  
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DESIGN  
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Making deep links delightful  
There's some really great tips in this article on deep links by Chris  
Maddern.  
One that stood out to me as something which would be really easy to overlook is that if  
you have any kind of onboarding screens, remember to skip them if the user is coming in via a deep  
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It's going to be way too easy to forget while developing and it's a terrible user experience  
for your customers.  
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usebutton dot com  
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Keyboard Smörgåsbord  
Eli Schiff with a deep look at the design of the i OS keyboard since i OS 6,  
focusing for most of the article on the shift key.  
While it could still use some improvement, as a  
user I must admit I haven't struggled with it at all since installing i OS 9.  
I do love that there's  
so much to talk about with something as simple as upper case letters though.  
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elischiff dot com  
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JOBS  
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Senior i OS Engineer, Timehop, NYC  
Build the future of the past for millions of users.  
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timehop dot com  
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Senior Product Designer   Miner, New York, NY  
Work alongside an award winning team on the best new  
app for shopping.  
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i OS Developer at Willow Tree  
Life is Short. Love your Job!  
Mobile solutions for the world's leading  
companies.  
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Alarms... again...  
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Time zones are hard  
, but this is becoming a joke now right?  
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