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I have already written about how  fastlane  can make uploading screenshots to iTunesConnect easier and in this post  and in this post I will talk about another one of it's very useful tools i.e. frameit . If you look at App Store screenshots for my iOS app  My Day To-Do , you will see that they look great with a nice device frame around them, something which I achieved using the frameit gem from fastlane. The documentation on frameit as of now doesn't talk about everything and learning how to use it takes a bit of effort which is fair enough I suppose. I mean they gave us a great tool so it is only fair that we contribute to it somehow so in this post, I will talk about what I learned while using frameit to frame my App Store screenshots. There were some rules I had to follow to successfully use frameit for my iOS app and here I will share what I learned so it saves the next person learning to use it some time. Ohh and in my quest to save the next pe...

In this post I will briefly talk about my solution to building a Django app which has an AngularJS front-end. This wasn't a major problem as such, but it did cost me some extra time when I tried to get it done, so naturally on solving this issue I felt that I should help the next programmer facing such as issue. Therefore I created a Github repo i.e. a sample project that can help anyone get started on something like this. Background I have a background in building Java web apps , I mean almost 70-80% code that I wrote for my previous jobs was in Java . So building a Java web app with an AngularJS front-end was something I knew how to do but I had a few minor hurdles when I wanted to achieve the same with a Python/Django backend. When I started working on solving this problem, I thought to myself "I wish there was a simple sample project which showed all aspects of this sort of application and how it all comes together"... and since I couldn't find a sam...

September last year(2015 I released my iOS app, My Day To-Do  and the following December I released the Lite(free) version , which is missing a few features from the paid version. At this point, both versions have a different code base i.e. seperate repositories and when I add a new feature to the either of them, I basically copy and paste the code from one place to the other. I know this method is horribly prone to errors, right? well, I wanted to release the Lite version just before Christmas and since I started working on it a week or two before the holidays, I could not afford to invest time into finding out best way to go about it. However now that I plan to release another paid but limited and cheaper version of My Day To-Do, I am thinking of doing it right this time.  Introduction Since 2013 my version control of choice has been Git  and I have used it on all my projects ever since including My Day To-Do family of apps. I always knew about branches in Git but...

This is one of those achievements that had me yell a big "YAYYYYY" when I had it working, even though it is not complete at this stage. After coming across some hurdles, I finally managed to deploy a web demo for my iOS app  My Day To-Do  that anyone with a mobile or PC can try. In this short post, I will talk about my motivation for it as well as shed some light on my overall solution and I will conclude this post with my thoughts on this approach and what I think about it, in current day and age.  Motivation  My Day To-Dos has both a free and a paid version and the distinguishing features between the two are (at this stage) weather summary selecting the language the app talks in The above features are only available in the paid version and I wanted to give any prospective users a feel for what these features are like. Solution I have already written about the unique way in which I built my native iOS app i.e. Html5 for UI and native...

I love writing code and during my undergraduate studies I had a chance to write code in many programming languages and while I enjoyed working with all of them, there was one language that I fell in love with. I call it first love and thankfully I had a chance to code in that language for most of my career after I finished uni. I worked with it for years and years, it would be my language of choice for any new project...until recently. In the last 12 months, certain (almost unavoidable) circumstances lead me to a choice which meant, I had a part ways with my first love for this particular project. In this post I will talk about what my first love was, the circumstances that made me part ways with it and what did I use instead of it. My First love During my undergraduate studies and when I was learning about programming, I was exposed to C++ , Java and C . I did not mind C so much, C++ I did not like it at the time and I loved working with Java. Yes yes, I know it's very ver...

In most of my past jobs, I had the opportunity of working with a great team! I mean those who I have worked alongside have always been some kind of awesome. All except for that one member, that I never really liked very much. In this post, I will briefly talk about my evolution as a Software developer and how I evolved to be a lot like that one team member I wasn't too thrilled about working with. That ONE team member In most of my past jobs, working in a team was always heaps of fun, unfortunately every team had someone who would make a plan, have deadlines, monitor the time spent on each task, etc. Yes of course I am talking about the Project Manager. In some of my early jobs, every time a project manager asked me "how long it would take me to finish something?"   one of the first things in my mind would be, "ahh dude go away, let me write code in peace". I mean all I want to do is write good code i.e. code which is modular, follows the right design pat...

I have been updating my iOS apps( My Day ToDos and it's  Lite version ) ever since I released it late last year which has been one of the most tedious processes. Actually for me, it's only frustrating when I have to upload a new screenshot for my app, which requires me to drag and drop images to iTunes Connect  for every screen size and every localisation. However recently I came across this fantastic tool for automating that process. That is one of the things that, I will be talking about in detail in this post. Updating iOS apps When I buy an app, I read the description and look at the screenshots and if I like them, then I buy them. As a user the one thing that I would really annoy me would be when the actual app doesn't work or have any of the features in it's description or look anything like it's App Store screenshot.  Since I have an app on the App Store as well, my goal is to not to annoy any potential users who are like me and hence I tend to ke...