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Dynamic Type: Adaptable Layouts

Dynamic Type: Adaptable Layouts

Hello and welcome back to my series on Dynamic Type [https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/accessibility/overview/text-size-and-weight/] 👋 This time we’re going to talk about this guideline [https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/accessibility/overview/text-size-and-weight/] from Apple: > Use Dynamic Type and test that your app’s layout

Dynamic Type: Large Content Viewer

Dynamic Type: Large Content Viewer

What is the Large Content Viewer? Large Content Viewer [https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uilargecontentvieweritem] is a feature introduced by Apple along Dynamic Type [https://medium.com/immoweb-tech-blog/dynamic-type-scaling-custom-fonts-ac5af787461c] . Most of the time, your content should grow according to the current Dynamic Type Size. But for some components, it

Dynamic Type: Scaling images

Dynamic Type: Scaling images

Hello and welcome back to my series on Dynamic Type [https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/accessibility/overview/text-size-and-weight/] . In my last article [https://medium.com/immoweb-tech-blog/dynamic-type-scaling-custom-fonts-ac5af787461c] we’ve talked about scaling custom fonts with Dynamic Type. We’ve seen why it’s important to support it in our

Accessibility: Bold Text with custom fonts

Accessibility: Bold Text with custom fonts

Apple guidelines As Apple is stating in its guidelines [https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/accessibility/overview/text-size-and-weight/] : > Ensure that your app responds correctly and looks good when users enable bold text. People turn on the bold text accessibility setting to make text and glyphs easier to see. In response,

Dynamic Type: Scaling Custom Fonts

Dynamic Type: Scaling Custom Fonts

Hello, I’m Kevin, iOS developer at Immoweb [https://www.immoweb.be/]. This article will be one of a series about supporting Dynamic Type. But before reading further, you might ask… What is Dynamic Type? Why should I support it in my app? Let’s first answer those questions! If

VoiceOver vs. symbols and units

VoiceOver vs. symbols and units

Hi, I’m Kevin, iOS developer at Immoweb [https://www.immoweb.be], and I hate long intros. So here’s the thing… The problem If you check that your app works well with VoiceOver (and if you're here, I bet it's the case) and you are using symbols/units in

Making UICollectionView's accessible inside UITableView's

Tips and tricks

Making UICollectionView's accessible inside UITableView's

Apple is handling a lot of accessibility features automatically for us when we use UIKit components like UITableView's and UICollectionView's. Though I've noticed it doesn't work out of the box when you try a design like the App Store app, with a UICollectionView embedded in a UITableView. When using VoiceOver,

Why should you attend to WWDC?

Why should you attend to WWDC?

Hello everyone, it has been a few weeks since WWDC 2015. I was lucky this year to attend it. But there was one thing that I was thinking on my way to San Francisco: How to make the most of WWDC? If it is just to see the sessions, it

WWDC 2015 Socializing guide

WWDC 2015 Socializing guide

Hello everyone ! You are attending to WWDC (Dub Dub Dee Cee) this year and you would want to have tips and tricks to socialize with others and take the most of the incredible week that is coming? What I will do here is tell you how to: * find people that