by Cesare Rocchi

Podrover Diaries: Cleaning a stain in the iOS navigation bar

Podrover Diaries is a series about my adventures in building Podrover, a service to track, collect and share your podcast reviews. Subscribe to the RSS feed or join my newsletter to stay up to date with upcoming adventures. When I released the 1.3.5 version of Podrover some customers reported the presence of a “stain”. Here it is (look at the top and bottom right). I didn’t notice it at first but it’s creepy, isn’t it?

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Podrover Diaries: Table views with load more at the bottom

Podrover Diaries is a series about my adventures in building Podrover, a service to track, collect and share your podcast reviews. Subscribe to the RSS feed or join my newsletter to stay up to date with upcoming adventures. “Why there isn’t a built-in component to make this?” I remember this question rolling in my head as I was building this allegedly simple feature in Podrover. You have seen this pattern many times:

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Podrover Diaries: Building Login and Signup views

Podrover Diaries is about my adventures in building Podrover, a service to track, collect and share your podcast reviews. Subscribe to the RSS feed or join my newsletter to stay up to date with upcoming adventures. I took me five days to build v1 of Podrover for iPhone. I spent two full days just for login and signup. Weird uh? My goal was to build something easy to use but also easy to build, without going crazy about different layouts for different devices.

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I wrote an application in Objective-c

Podrover Diaries is about my adventures in building Podrover, a service to track, collect and share your podcast reviews. Subscribe to the RSS feed or join my newsletter to stay up to date with upcoming adventures. No, I didn’t inherit an old project. Yes, I know it’s 2017. Yes, I know there’s a thing called Swift. And yet, on January 2nd I created a new Xcode project, I picked Objective-c and I don’t regret it.

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