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DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift UI/UX Insights Replicating the iOS Text Magnifying Glass A dive into details of how we replicated the system magnifying glass on iOS.

PRODUCTS Components UI/UX Adding Manual Alignment to the Comparison Workflow How we enhanced the UI design of our Document Comparison component. DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin Jetpack Compose UI/UX Introducing Jetpack Compose Support The Android PDF SDK you know and love now supports Jetpack Compose! DEVELOPMENT PDF UI/UX Insights What Is Text Shaping and Why Do We Do It? Some text in some languages requires text shaping to render correctly. This will explain a little about what exactly that is. DEVELOPMENT Android Web Testing UI/UX Insights Why Should You Care about Manual Testing? How to approach manual testing pragmatically for quality products you can be proud of. PRODUCTS Signing UI/UX Insights The Experience of Signing Electronically How we designed the UI and UX of our new Electronic Signatures component. 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.

TUTORIALS JavaScript PDF How To UI/UX Forms Using JavaScript in PDF Form Fields Learn the basics of working with JavaScript Form Elements in a PDF. 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? TUTORIALS iOS Swift How To UI/UX Extending the Scribble User Experience How to customize the default Scribble experience to allow users to start writing anywhere. DEVELOPMENT iOS Swift UI/UX Insights The Case for Lists in UICollectionView Exploring the power and flexibility offered by creating lists using UICollectionView. PRODUCTS PDF Signing UI/UX Transparent PNG Support Images with transparency (PNG alpha support) offer new possibilities for annotating documents across all platforms. 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. 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 Swift Tips UI/UX Insights Supporting Pointer Interactions Apple introduced new pointer events in iOS 13.4 to better support trackpad and mouse devices. 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 iOS Swift Objective-C Tips UI/UX Adopting UIAppearance in Custom Views Learn how to support styling your own custom views using UIAppearance.

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 iOS Swift Objective-C UI/UX 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 Web How To UI/UX Beyond Theming with CSS In this blog post, we’ll look at some simple solutions we use at PSPDFKit to make our modals more inclusive and accessible.

DEVELOPMENT Android Performance UI/UX Rendering PDFs on Android How to handle rendering large amounts of bitmaps and maintain a slick UX while doing it. TUTORIALS Web How To UI/UX Theming PSPDFKit for Web We look at how easy it is to theme PSPDFKit for Web to fit your web app’s style.

DEVELOPMENT iOS UI/UX Insights Adopting Drag and Drop on iOS Utilizing the new Drag and Drop feature in iOS 11, and how we integrated it to enhance the user experience. DEVELOPMENT Android Java UI/UX 50 Shaders of Android: Drawing on Canvas Low-level drawing and animation on Android using Canvas and powerful Shader classes. 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 Culture UI/UX Everybody Designs: An Agile Approach to Design How PSPDFKit uses an agile approach for design work

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 Android Java UI/UX Tips Keyboard Handling on Android DEVELOPMENT iOS Performance Testing UI/UX Running UI Tests on iOS With Ludicrous Speed