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Posted by Padraig on Mar 26, 2014

iOS 7 introduced the interactivePopGestureRecognizer to UINavigationController which allows users swipe from the edge of the screen to pop back in the navigation stack. This is enabled by default and requires very little consideration from developers. There is a subtle but annoying bug though that affects most of the apps I use every day. In this post I’ll explain the bug and how we addressed it in Castro.

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The Supertop Grid

Posted by Padraig on Mar 25, 2014

One of the major improvements we’ve made to Castro for version 1.1 is to revisit all of the typography and layout throughout the app.

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The Effective Way to Ask for an App Review

Posted by Padraig on Feb 26, 2014

App Store Reviews and the ways developers should (or shouldn’t) go about asking users for them has been a widely discussed topic lately.

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The Value of Background Fetch

Posted by Padraig on Feb 18, 2014

David Smith wrote a blog post last week about Background Fetch, alerting developers to a potentially serious consequence of using it in a popular app. His points are backed up with statistics from his excellent Check The Weather app and from the server logs of his own podcast feed, Developing Perspective.

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