I, For One, Welcome Our New Overcast

Posted by Padraig on Jul 14, 2014

Marco Arment released Overcast yesterday. It’s a great addition to the widening selection of iOS podcast apps.

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Castro 1.1

Posted by Padraig on May 13, 2014

The first major update to Castro is now available. We’ve been hard at work on this for the past 3 months and we’re really excited to share it with you. Here’s what’s new:

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viewMightAppear:

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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