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DEVELOPMENT JavaScript PDF Generation Tips PDF.js PDF-lib PDFKit jsPDF pdfmake Puppeteer Top JavaScript PDF libraries for PDF generation and manipulation The post compares leading JavaScript PDF libraries, such as PDF.js, PDF-lib, PDFKit, and Nutrient, highlighting their key features, use cases, and differences to help developers choose the best option for their projects. DEVELOPMENT Python PDF Generation Tips Top 10 Ways to Generate PDFs in Python Explore 10 powerful methods for generating PDFs in Python, from open source libraries to premium solutions, to meet all your document creation needs. DEVELOPMENT HTML JavaScript Node Tips Top 10 Ways to Convert HTML to PDF Explore 10 effective methods for converting HTML to PDF, including open source options, as well as a premium choice. DEVELOPMENT iOS Android Room Kotlin Multiplatform Tips Seamless Room database integration for Kotlin Multiplatform projects This blog post explores the process of integrating the Room database library into Kotlin Multiplatform projects with ease and efficiency. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Tips Privacy Manifests and Required Reason APIs on iOS What privacy manifests and required reason APIs are, and the approach taken by PSPDFKit for adding support for these requirements.

DEVELOPMENT iOS Insights Debugging Tips Debugging in iOS: Resolving UITextView Flickering Issues A debugging story that includes some tips and tricks DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Tips Using Asset Catalogs for Images We discuss the various features of asset catalogs relating to images. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Tips Navigating Remote Onboarding: A Software Developer's Perspective An in-depth look at onboarding as a software developer, including tips and tricks to make it easier. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Objective-C Tips Developing Mixed-Source Swift Packages Tips for publishing Swift packages that include both Swift and Objective-C source files. TUTORIALS API Tips How to Convert Scanned PDF to Text with PSPDFKit's OCR API How to OCR a document using PSPDFKit API DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Tips Optimizing Annotation Drawing Performance How we optimized ink annotations and improved performance of several SDK components.

TUTORIALS Annotations React Tips React PDF Annotations — A Complete Overview A comprehensive tutorial for managing React PDF annotations with PSPDFKit. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Tips Adding a Document Viewer to a Mac Catalyst App We discuss how a PDF document viewer can be added to a Mac Catalyst app using the PSPDFKit SDK. DEVELOPMENT C++ Office Tips Testing Subjective Office Conversion Results How to test an Office to PDF conversion result that one would deem great and others would deem poor. DEVELOPMENT Machine Learning NLP PDF Tips Summarize a PDF Document Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing In this blog post, I'll show the quickest possible way to summarize a PDF document using machine learning and a natural language processing model called BART. DEVELOPMENT Android Tips How to Load OBJ Files with MTL in Android Loading .obj files with .mtl using Three.js in Android. DESIGN Web Processor API PDF Generation Tips Adding custom fonts to HTML documents How to add custom fonts to HTML and use PDF Generation to create documents. INSIGHTS Tips Productivity Productivity Tips When Switching from a PC to a Mac Improving productivity when switching from a PC to a Mac. TUTORIALS Annotations JavaScript Tips PDF Annotations with JavaScript — A Complete Overview A comprehensive tutorial for managing JavaScript PDF annotations with PSPDFKit. DESIGN Web Processor API PDF Generation Tips HTML-to-PDF Invoice Generation with Headers and Footers How we enhanced our PDF Generation component by adding the option of headers and footers. TUTORIALS API Python Tips How to Merge PDFs Using Python Learn how to merge PDFs with PSPDFKit API using Python. TUTORIALS API PHP Tips How to Delete PDF Pages Using PHP Learn how to delete PDF pages with PSPDFKit API using PHP. TUTORIALS API JavaScript Tips How to Delete PDF Pages Using JavaScript Learn how to delete PDF pages with PSPDFKit API using JavaScript. TUTORIALS API Java Tips How to Delete PDF Pages Using Java Learn how to delete PDF pages with PSPDFKit API using Java. TUTORIALS API Python Tips How to Delete PDF Pages Using Python Learn how to delete PDF pages with PSPDFKit API using Python. DEVELOPMENT API PDF Generation Tips Top 6 Best PDF Generator APIs in 2024: A Complete Guide to Choosing the Best PDF API Discover the best PDF generator APIs in 2024. Compare features, pricing, and use cases to find the best PDF generator API for your document creation needs. TUTORIALS API PHP Tips How to Merge PDFs Using PHP Learn how to merge PDFs with PSPDFKit API using PHP. TUTORIALS API JavaScript Tips How to Merge PDFs Using JavaScript Learn how to merge PDFs with PSPDFKit API using JavaScript. TUTORIALS API Java Tips How to Merge PDFs Using Java Learn how to merge PDFs with PSPDFKit API using Java. TUTORIALS API Python Tips How to Split PDFs Using Python Learn how to split PDFs with PSPDFKit API using Python. TUTORIALS API Java Tips How to Split PDFs Using Java Learn how to split PDFs with PSPDFKit API using Java. TUTORIALS API PHP Tips How to Split PDFs Using PHP Learn how to split PDFs with PSPDFKit API using PHP. TUTORIALS API JavaScript Tips How to Split PDFs Using JavaScript Learn how to split PDFs with PSPDFKit API using JavaScript. DEVELOPMENT iOS SwiftUI Tips Presenting Popovers on iPhone with SwiftUI How to present the UI as popovers on iPhone when using SwiftUI. DEVELOPMENT Web JavaScript Tips How to download multiple files with JavaScript A step-by-step tutorial explaining how to download multiple files from a server with a single request. DEVELOPMENT Web Server Elixir Tips Using SSL for PostgreSQL Connections on Elixir How to successfully establish and verify SSL connections against a PostgreSQL server from an Elixir application.

BLOG iOS Tips Loading Images on iOS 15 We discuss the new iOS 15 APIs provided by UIKit for loading and displaying images and the SwiftUI APIs for loading an image from a remote URL. DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin Tips Autosizing Fonts for Android EditTexts Transfer Android's TextView autosizing capability to EditTexts DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Tips Fitting Text into a Bounding Frame on iOS How to use a binary search algorithm to precisely fit multiline text into a bounding frame on iOS. DEVELOPMENT Productivity Tips git How to Handle Stacked Pull Requests on GitHub This blog post describes how to deal with dependent pull requests on GitHub, as well as the git concepts you need to master to understand them. DEVELOPMENT Web JavaScript Tips Practical Uses of Object URLs Showcasing different applications of JavaScript object URLs in the browser. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Testing Tips Swift Render Tests in Practice — Part III How to automate regenerating and updating reference images for render tests. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Testing Tips Swift Render Tests in Practice - Part II How to improve test failures with attachments and grouping related test output. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Testing Tips Swift Render Tests in Practice - Part I How to pragmatically approach render testing for custom drawing code. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Tips Debugging Debugging Image Loading and Cropping Performance on iOS We talk about using the Image I/O and Core Graphics APIs to improve the image loading and cropping performance in the PSPDFKit iOS SDK. DEVELOPMENT PDF Tips Performance Insights How a B-Tree Helped Reduce Memory Usage in Our Framework This blog post describes the approach we took to save around 15 percent of memory in our framework by first identifying bottlenecks, and then changing one of our dictionary implementations to use a specialized data structure known as a B-tree. DEVELOPMENT Web Tips Debugging Insights How to Identify Browser Bugs Strategies to adopt for identifying browser bugs, and what to do after spotting one. DEVELOPMENT Web Server Elixir Tips The Perils of Large Files in Elixir A post about dealing with large files in Elixir applications. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Tips Streams of Cocoa: Why It's Still Worth Knowing NSStream In this post, we'll look at a piece of API that many people rarely touch, if ever: Stream. It’s neither new nor shiny, but it's a powerful tool when you know how to use it. DEVELOPMENT C++ Tips Insights String Literals, Character Encodings, and Multiplatform C++ How string literals are encoded by Clang and MSVC. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Tips SwiftUI UI/UX Accessibility Keyboard Navigation in SwiftUI SwiftUI wasn’t built with keyboard support in mind, and it shows. Learn how you can rewrite keyboardShortcut to work with iOS 13 and access the underlying navigation controller to pop views on ⌘-Left Arrow. SOLUTIONS iOS macOS Tips PSPDFKit for Magazines How to configure PSPDFKit for a magazine. SOLUTIONS iOS macOS Tips PSPDFKit for Construction How to configure PSPDFKit to display a building floorplan. SOLUTIONS iOS macOS Tips PSPDFKit for E-Readers How to configure PSPDFKit for an e-reader app. SOLUTIONS iOS macOS Tips PSPDFKit for E-Learning How PSPDFKit can be configured for taking and grading an e-learning exam. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift SwiftUI Tips Using the SwiftUI ColorPicker on iOS and macOS While macOS has offered a system-provided color picker since OS X 10.0 Cheetah, iOS developers had to wait a bit longer. Let's take a closer look at the new ColorPicker (SwiftUI) and UIColorPickerViewController (UIKit) controls. SOLUTIONS iOS macOS Tips PSPDFKit for Board Meetings How PSPDFKit can be used to create or join a collaborative editing session for a board meeting. SOLUTIONS iOS macOS Tips PSPDFKit for Aviation How to configure PSPDFKit to display a flight manual and passenger list documents. DEVELOPMENT C++ Tips Debugging Time Travel Debugging for C/C++ A quick look at reverse debugging/time travel debugging for C/C++.

DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Tips Caching File Downloads with URLCache in Swift Apple has a sophisticated caching system in iOS, which is enabled by default. However, documentation around URLCache is quite sparse. Today, we'll look at the behavior of caching when dealing with large files. DEVELOPMENT Tips Productivity Faster Compilation with Ccache 4.0 Ccache is a build cache to achieve faster compilation. With the 4.0 release, it now supports Modules, which makes it possible to accelerate projects that mix Objective-C and Swift. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Tips SwiftUI UI/UX Presenting Popovers from SwiftUI Is there a way to present UIKit popovers from toolbar buttons managed by SwiftUI? DEVELOPMENT Web WebAssembly Tips Performance Migrating to the New Emscripten LLVM Backend We share the experience of migrating from the old Fastcomp backend to the new LLVM backend in Emscripten. DEVELOPMENT Swift Tips Debugging An Introduction to LLDB Reproducers An introduction to an experimental feature in LLDB, Reproducers, that helps reproduce bugs in the debugger itself. DEVELOPMENT Tips Productivity git A Better Way to Git Log to Understand Changes in a Big Codebase How git log information may not be enough when developers need to understand changes in a codebase that has evolved over several years. DEVELOPMENT Web JavaScript TypeScript Tips Generate TypeScript Declarations from a Flow Codebase A short guide on how to generate TypeScript declarations from a Flow codebase. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Tips UI/UX Level Up Your Trackpad Support Using UIInteraction How to make your iOS app work well with scrolling, secondary clicking and dragging on a trackpad or mouse. DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin Tips Productivity Think First, Code Later A case study on how we design features and APIs for PSPDFKit for Android. DEVELOPMENT C++ Tips Productivity Best C++ IDEs of 2024 Discover the best C++ IDEs and text editors of 2024. Learn the pros and cons of each tool, from Visual Studio to Vim, and find the right fit for your development needs. DEVELOPMENT iOS macOS Tips Performance Xcode Automated Profiling Runs in Instruments Learn how to automate measurement runs with Instruments. DEVELOPMENT C++ Tips Performance How to Effectively Measure the Performance of Your Code This blog post explains why software that performs well is important and how we measure code performance at PSPDFKit. DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin Tips Productivity Testing How to Reduce Flakiness in Automated UI Testing on Android This blog post discusses tips and best practices on how to reduce flakiness in automated UI testing on Android. DEVELOPMENT iOS Objective-C Tips Preventing Surprisingly Large Objective-C Type Encodings Objective-C stores type encoding in the binary. These encodings can become surprisingly large. INSIGHTS Remote Work Productivity Tips 9 Tips to Help You Work Effectively from Home This article describes some strategies first-time remote workers should follow to get the most out of working from home. This is part two of four of our remote work series. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Tips UI/UX Insights Supporting Pointer Interactions Apple introduced new pointer events in iOS 13.4 to better support trackpad and mouse devices. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Tips Remote Work: How to Overcome Common Struggles of Working from Home This article describes some struggles first-time remote workers may face and provides some strategies to help overcome them. This is part one of four of our remote work series. DEVELOPMENT C++ Tips Productivity Effective Header Management in C++ How we can reduce build times and clean up our header dependencies with effective header management. DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin Tips UI/UX Change Android Themes Instantly Using the Circular Reveal Animation This blog post investigates how to achieve nice animations when changing themes. DEVELOPMENT PDF Tips Insights Optimizing PDF File Size When editing PDFs, they often grow in size, but that doesn't have to be the case. Here's how we optionally optimize for size. DEVELOPMENT C++ Tips Testing Our Approach to Testing a Large-Scale C++ Codebase This blog post outlines the frameworks and techniques PSPDFKit uses to test its large-scale C++ codebase. DEVELOPMENT C++ Tips Performance Investigating the performance overhead of C++ exceptions C++ exceptions have their place, but using an alternative is recommended for general program flow control. DEVELOPMENT C++ Tips Performance Compiler-Based Lock Checking in C++ A short introduction to compiler-based lock checking in C++ with Clang using Thread Safety Analysis DEVELOPMENT Tips Productivity git Moving a Git Repository into Its Submodule How we improved our Git repository setup by moving our PDF Viewer for iOS repository into our PSPDFKit repository. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Objective-C Tips UI/UX Adopting UIAppearance in Custom Views Learn how to support styling your own custom views using UIAppearance.

INSIGHTS Culture Insights Tips From zero to hero: How I got a full-time job in tech A political scientist turned web engineer describes her journey of transformation. She also reveals a few aspects that can make or break an internship in tech (and in general). DEVELOPMENT iOS Tips UI/UX Open Links in Safari, Not Safari View Controller Why we changed our default for opening web links from SFSafariViewController to the Safari app. DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin Tips Accessibility Insights How We Improved Keyboard Navigation Accessibility in Our Android SDK A look at the steps we took to start improving the accessibility of our Android SDK. DEVELOPMENT C++ Python Tips Making C++ Talk to Other Languages with SWIG Using SWIG to generate interfaces to talk to a C++ backend. DEVELOPMENT Web Docker Containers Tips Docker Image Import and Export vs. Docker Container Load and Save A blog post that explains the difference between the Docker import/export and load/save commands. DEVELOPMENT Android Tips The Android Drag-and-Drop Framework in Practice Using the Android drag-and-drop framework — from theory to implementation. DEVELOPMENT Android Tips Dealing with Large Memory Requirements on Android This article provides tips for optimizing memory usage of your apps. DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin Tips How Do I Fix NetworkOnMainThreadException? A post detailing what NetworkOnMainThreadException is and how to prevent it. DEVELOPMENT Android Java Tips Performance Evaluation of Linked Lists Today we'll delve into the performance evaluation of linked lists, a controversial topic among many experienced developers, and try to understand why they trigger a warning in the Error Prone report. DEVELOPMENT Windows Tips How to Await an Async Event Handler Delegate in UWP Asynchronous programming is hard, and the WinRT interface poses further issues. Learn how to implement a deferral to wait on a user action before completing additional work. DEVELOPMENT Web JavaScript Tips Smoother Interactions on the Web: getCoalescedEvents() How to use the getCoalescedEvents() method of the PointerEvent API to improve the precision of drawing apps or of any web application. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Tips Making a Resource Thread-Safe with Locks We discuss how to ensure thread safety and synchronization via locking. DEVELOPMENT C++ Tips Debugging When C++ Doesn't Move C++ move semantics make your code more efficient, but sometimes a move is not performed. In this blog post, we explore why. DEVELOPMENT Android Tips The Soft Keyboard on Android Tips for working with the soft keyboard on Android. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Tips Swizzling in Swift A quick crash course on how to swizzle correctly, and how to do it in Swift 5.1 DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift PDF Tips Working with PDF Metadata in Swift How and what metadata can be stored in a PDF, and how to programmatically work with this information. DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin Tips Retaining Objects Using a Fragment An overview of how to use a fragment to retain objects during a configuration change. DEVELOPMENT Android Java Tips Insights Problems with Nullability Annotations A look at some issues with Android's nullability annotations and how to fix them. DEVELOPMENT macOS Tips Insights How Xcode Indexing Works and How You Can Fix IDE Problems with Your Projects This post provides an overview of how the code assistance feature in Xcode works and how you can debug code assistance problems in your projects. DEVELOPMENT Android Tips Understanding Android Dimensions A post about existing Android dimensions, their purpose, and common conversion rules. DEVELOPMENT Windows UWP C# C++ Tips How to Use Native C++ in UWP How to include native C++ in your UWP app and call into it from C#. DEVELOPMENT Android Tips How to Use Android App Bundles This blog post explains what Android App Bundles are and how to upload them to Google Play. DEVELOPMENT Tips The Many Benefits of Using a Monorepo A monorepo? Isn't that just a weird Facebook and Google thing? Why is PSPDFKit using a monorepo? DEVELOPMENT Android Java Tips Handling Nullability in Your Code A brief excursion into the Java type system, nullability, and remedies for the billion-dollar mistake. DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin Tips Jetpack Compose Using ViewModels to Retain State on Android How to use Android's ViewModel class to retain complex objects across configuration changes. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Tips Debugging Adding Logging to Crash Reports Understanding crash reports is often difficult without extra context. Learn how we attach application logs to crash reports via Google's Firebase Crashlytics in the free PDF Viewer for iOS app. DEVELOPMENT Android Tips What are configuration changes in Android? An overview of configuration changes on Android, including best practices for modern development. DEVELOPMENT Productivity Tips How Spaced Repetition Helps You Learn New Things We present spaced repetition as a learning technique that can help you be more efficient at work. DEVELOPMENT Android iOS Windows PDF Tips Insights Incremental and Full Save in PDFs This article goes into what's involved when incrementally or fully saving a PDF, and why it matters. DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin Tips Instant How to Test REST API Clients in Android Apps This article shows how we built simple and flexible integration tests for PSPDFKit Instant that are using a custom abstraction layer on top of an OkHttp mocked web server. DEVELOPMENT Tips What Is Ninja Refactoring, and When Should You Consider Doing It? Tips and best practices for code refactoring. DEVELOPMENT Android Java Tips Saving the Activity State An overview of how to make sure your activity state is saved. DEVELOPMENT iOS macOS Swift Objective-C Tips Writing and Maintaining Good Code Documentation Tips, tricks, and techniques for documenting your code the correct way. DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin Tips Using the Bottom Navigation View in Android An introduction to implementing bottom navigation in your app with a simple example that incorporates synced page switching as well. DEVELOPMENT C++ Tips Insights Visual Studio Code for C++ How to use Visual Studio Code for C++ development. DEVELOPMENT Android Tips Debugging Inspecting APK Files This article discusses the basics of Android reverse engineering using the Apktool, smali, and Java decompilers.

DEVELOPMENT Android Tips How to Increase the Logcat Buffer Size Don't lose your logs. Increase your logcat buffer! PRODUCTS Cordova Electron Flutter React Native Xamarin Tips Supporting Hybrid Technologies We support all major hybrid technologies, including Cordova, Electron, Flutter, Ionic, React Native, and Xamarin. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift C++ Open Source Tips Tips and Tricks for Contributing to the Swift Language This post describes the process for contributing code to the Swift programming language, including how to propose changes to the language, write a pull request, address feedback, and make your code part of the next version of the language. DEVELOPMENT iOS Tips Creating an Efficient App Store Screenshot Workflow A look at how we generate our screenshots for the iOS App Store. DEVELOPMENT Android Tips Using Paths to Draw Shapes with Borders How to use a flexible path API to draw complex shapes with borders. DEVELOPMENT Tips How to Use Docker Compose to Run Multiple Instances of a Service in Development In this blog post, we’ll look at an example of how we can run multiple instances of a service with Docker Compose. DEVELOPMENT iOS Tips Refactoring Large Codebases: Tips and Tricks If you're going to fall down a rabbit hole anyway, you might as well enjoy it! DEVELOPMENT iOS Tips Improving Dynamic Type Support How to improve Dynamic Type support in your app and bring it to the next level. DEVELOPMENT iOS Debugging Tips How to Extend LLDB to Provide a Better Debugging Experience Explore the extensibility capabilities of LLDB, a debugger for Swift, C, C++, and Objective-C code. PRODUCTS iOS Android Web Tips Examples for Using Our Frameworks Here at PSPDFKit, we believe doing practical work is the best way to learn things, so we decided to create a few example apps to help customers explore our framework. DEVELOPMENT Tips Naming Is Hard — Difficulties of Naming Variables Is naming a variable so hard? According to Martin Fowler, it is. In this blog post, I'll try to shed some light on what naming entails and why it's a challenge. DEVELOPMENT Tips Naming Classes — Why It Matters, and How to Do It Well Tips for choosing good class names. DEVELOPMENT Elixir Tips How to Parse XML Documents in Elixir A tutorial on how to parse XML documents in Elixir. DEVELOPMENT UWP Windows Tips Debugging WebView in UWP Apps with Edge DevTools We show how a developer can use Edge DevTools to debug a WebView in a UWP app. DEVELOPMENT Android RxJava Kotlin Tips RxJava for Multi-Level Data Retrieval RxJava can be useful for many things, and in this post, we’ll have a look at how to use it to add offline support to your app. DEVELOPMENT Elixir Tips Database Transactions with Ecto How to use database transactions and Ecto.Multi in Elixir DEVELOPMENT Web Tips Immutable.js and Lazy Evaluation A short introduction to Immutable.js and how lazy operations improve performance and readability of your code. DEVELOPMENT Tips Modern CMake Tips There are better ways to write CMake scripts. DEVELOPMENT Elixir Tips How to Build a Back-Pressure Queuing System in Elixir with sbroker Tutorial on how to set up a back-pressure queuing system in Elixir with sbroker. DEVELOPMENT Web JavaScript Tips An Introduction to Stimulus.js In this article, we'll look at the Stimulus JavaScript framework and how it can help bring some order to a website's frontend codebase. DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin Tips Moving Your Gradle Build Scripts to Kotlin Another take on writing your project's Gradle build files in pure Kotlin code. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Tips How to Use Slack and Not Go Bananas Slack is both amazing and awful. At a time when many companies quit Slack, we refined our processes to make it work well for us. DEVELOPMENT Android Tips Tips for Designing an Android Library We take a look at some of the things you should keep in mind when designing an Android library. DEVELOPMENT Android Java Kotlin Tips Async Stacktraces in Android Studio How to create asynchronous stacktraces in Android Studio and IntelliJ. DEVELOPMENT Tips How to Manage Multiple System Configurations Using Docker Compose This blog post is a short introduction to Docker Compose and will explain how we use it to manage different system configurations that are built off the same base configuration. DEVELOPMENT Android Tips Hints for Beginners Navigating Around New Code We share some tips on how to navigate a new codebase. DEVELOPMENT Tips Using webpack with Middleman We explain how to integrate Middleman and webpack to boost your frontend productivity. DEVELOPMENT iOS Tips Leveraging SQLite Full-Text Search on iOS We look at SQLite’s FTS extension and how you can use it to add high performance search to your app. DEVELOPMENT PDF Tips Forms Forms in PDF Forms provide a simple yet flexible way to gather data from users. TUTORIALS Web WebAssembly Tips PDF Viewer Deploy a WebAssembly-Based PDF Viewer to the Cloud with One Command In this blog post, we show how easy it is to deploy our standalone, WebAssembly-powered version of PSPDFKit for Web to ZEIT’s now.sh, a cloud provider. DEVELOPMENT Elixir Tips How to Run Your Phoenix Application with Docker We’re taking a look at how to run Elixir applications within a Docker container, and how that can simplify the setup of development and deployment environments. DEVELOPMENT Android Productivity Tips Android Studio Shortcuts: How to Boost Your Productivity The best shortcuts for Android Studio. The most famous and the most underrated.

DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift Instant Tips How to use iOS Data Protection (updated for iOS 17) How apps can use iOS Data Protection to secure their files. DEVELOPMENT C++ Objective-C Java JavaScript Tips Linting and Code Formatting at PSPDFKit How we do code formatting in C++/Objective-C/Java/JavaScript DEVELOPMENT iOS Android Tips UI/UX Creating Better User Experiences with Animations and Lottie Improving an app’s User Experience made easy by adding animations powered by Lottie. DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin RxJava Tips Writing Concise Code with Kotlin and RxJava Tips and tricks how to write readable, concise, and beautiful code using the Kotlin language and RxJava. DEVELOPMENT Web React Tips How to build a freehand drawing using React Learn how to build a freehand drawing app with React and SVG. Follow our step-by-step guide for a seamless development experience. DEVELOPMENT Android Tips Debugging How to Fix a Bug, Blindfolded. This is a story about fixing a bug, even when all the tools go kaput. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Tips Making the Most of Remote Work At PSPDFKit, we strive to hire the best people for the job, regardless of where they are in the world. Here, I want to share how I’ve been making the most of remote work. DEVELOPMENT iOS Objective-C Tips The Struggle with Action Extensions Pitfalls when developing a Share or an Action Extension

DEVELOPMENT iOS Tips Hiding Your Action and Share Extensions In Your Own Apps DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin Java Tips A clean status bar with Android System UI and QuickDemo How to enable Android's demo mode using a quick setting tile DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin RxJava Tips Android animations powered by RxJava The purpose of this post is to show you how to combine RxJava features with animations on Android to create a great user interface without a lot of nested code. DEVELOPMENT iOS Debugging Tips Debugging a specific instance with scripted breakpoints When debugging an issue that is somewhere deep inside your code, you easily end up debugging a class that has lots of living instances. Sometimes, you are only interested in a very particular one. This can become very tedious work. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Tips Hiring a distributed team Who you hire can have a dramatic effect on your team’s culture, company’s productivity and, overall, is the most influential factor in determining the success or failure of a company. Over the past six years at PSPDFKit, we’ve slowly learned what’s important, what works, and what doesn’t work, at least for us. DEVELOPMENT iOS Debugging Tips Writing Good Bug Reports At PSPDFKit, we work every day to read through developers' bug reports. In fact, we forward many of them to the engineers at Apple. While this post is Apple-centric, many details can be applied to any sort of bug reporting. DEVELOPMENT iOS Objective-C Tips UI/UX 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 Tips Preventing Popovers on Popovers DEVELOPMENT iOS Tips Efficient iOS Version Checking DEVELOPMENT Testing Tips Selective Pull Request Testing DEVELOPMENT Android Java UI/UX Tips Keyboard Handling on Android DEVELOPMENT iOS Tips Adding live search to Jazzy docs DEVELOPMENT iOS Tips Debugging Debugging Rotation Issues Discover how we resolved a freezing issue in our Document Editor app after rotation, ensuring smooth user interaction and event handling.