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DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Objective-C Tips Development Developing Mixed-Source Swift Packages Tips for publishing Swift packages that include both Swift and Objective-C source files. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Objective-C Insights Development Uncovering SourceKit Limitations While Updating Our API Documentation A post that goes into detail on how moving to Swift-first API documentation uncovered issues in SourceKit.

DEVELOPMENT iOS Objective-C Debugging Insights Development Reverse Engineering UIKit to Fix Our Top Crash This blog post describes the process of reverse engineering UIKit to identify and fix our top crash in PSPDFKit for iOS. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Objective-C Xcode Testing Development Deflaking CI Tests with xcresults We’re sharing some techniques for tracking down and fixing flaky Xcode tests on CI. TUTORIALS iOS Flutter Objective-C How To How to Bridge Native PSPDFKit for iOS Code to Flutter A tutorial about how to bridge native PSPDFKit iOS code to Flutter.

DEVELOPMENT iOS macOS Objective-C Performance Insights Development Direct Calls with Objective-C Apple introduced the objc_direct attribute in Xcode 12. Learn what it does and how you can use it to your advantage. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Objective-C Insights Development NULL-Characters in Strings and Tales of Apple Radar In iOS 11, Smart Punctuation caused data loss. Learn how we fixed the issue and how we are now cleaning up the OS-level workaround. TUTORIALS iOS Swift Objective-C UI/UX Insights An In-Depth Look at Blur Effect Materials on iOS This blog post talks in detail about the blur effect materials on iOS and the challenges we faced in picking the appropriate effect for our SDK. DEVELOPMENT iOS Objective-C Tips Development Preventing Surprisingly Large Objective-C Type Encodings Objective-C stores type encoding in the binary. These encodings can become surprisingly large. TUTORIALS iOS React Native Objective-C How To How to Bridge Native iOS Code to React Native A video tutorial about how to bridge native iOS code to React Native. TUTORIALS iOS Swift Objective-C PDF How To How to Add Attribution to PDFs with PSPDFKit for iOS Learn how to include attribution when sharing the contents of a PDF. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Objective-C Tips UI/UX Development Adopting UIAppearance in Custom Views Learn how to support styling your own custom views using UIAppearance.

DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Objective-C UI/UX Development Adopting Dark Mode on iOS and Ensuring Backward Compatibility A comprehensive overview of adopting Dark Mode in an iOS app, along with a few tips to make the process of development easier. TUTORIALS iOS Swift Objective-C How To Customizing Segmented Controls in PSPDFKit We show how to customize the segmented controls in the document info coordinator. TUTORIALS iOS Objective-C JavaScript How To How to Create a Game with PDF and JavaScript This blog post explains how to extend the link creation API in PSPDFKit to create JavaScript actions and build a simple tic-tac-toe PDF game. TUTORIALS iOS Swift Objective-C PDF How To Is My Document a Valid PDF? Discover how to determine if your PDF has an invalid PDF format and learn effective methods for validation and correction. Explore common issues and solutions with Nutrient. TUTORIALS iOS Swift Objective-C PDF How To Security Secure Documents with PSPDFKit for iOS How to secure documents using PSPDFKit for iOS. DEVELOPMENT iOS Objective-C Insights Development Embracing the Limits of UIActivityViewController We talk about our experience in implementing the new sharing flow. DEVELOPMENT iOS macOS Swift Objective-C Tips Development Writing and Maintaining Good Code Documentation Tips, tricks, and techniques for documenting your code the correct way. TUTORIALS iOS Swift Objective-C How To Converting an Attributed String to a PDF How to convert a string with formatting to a PDF.

DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Objective-C Insights Development Self-Sizing Table View Cells in Practice A look at self-sizing table view cells for apps supporting iOS 10, 11, and 12, covering three implementation approaches and some pitfalls I encountered supporting these across our UI in PSPDFKit. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Objective-C Performance Development Using Signposts for Performance Tuning on iOS A look at the different ways that we measure and try to improve performance at PSPDFKit. DEVELOPMENT iOS Objective-C Insights Development Challenges of Adopting Drag and Drop A recap of how we integrated drag-and-drop support into our Document Editor in iOS. DEVELOPMENT iOS Android C++ Objective-C Development Failable Methods with Djinni In this article, we have look at using result types to model failable computations in the Djinni IDL.

DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Objective-C Development Even Swiftier Objective-C DEVELOPMENT C++ Objective-C Java JavaScript Tips Development Linting and Code Formatting at PSPDFKit How we do code formatting in C++/Objective-C/Java/JavaScript DEVELOPMENT iOS Objective-C Xcode Development Internationalization - Right to Left Support for Mobile Apps What Right to Left Support Actually Means and How We Implemented It DEVELOPMENT iOS Objective-C Tips Development The Struggle with Action Extensions Pitfalls when developing a Share or an Action Extension DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Objective-C Insights Development The Case for Deprecating UITableView DEVELOPMENT Android iOS Objective-C C++ Development Super Fast Builds Using distcc How to dramatically shorten your build times with distcc.

DEVELOPMENT iOS Objective-C Tips UI/UX Development Spicing up status messages At PSPDFKit, we likely spend just as much time polishing the UI as we do implementing PDF features or tweaking the performance. Here's a look at how one of our developers explored improving our status messages. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Objective-C Insights Development Swifty Objective-C DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Objective-C Insights Development Surprises with Swift Extensions