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Michael Hackett: Using KVO to annotate UISliders

nospam@example.com (Michael Hackett) — Thu, 05 May 2011 21:12:09 +0200

Very kind of you to share this, Alexander. A couple of minor corrections, if I may:

In your addObservers:... messages, you're passing NSKeyValueChangeReplacement for the options, which isn't appropriate there. The parameter should be of the NSKeyValueObservingOptions type. The value you are passing actually corresponds to the value NSKeyValueObservingOptionInitial, but I think you can safely pass 0 in this case.

Also, with the original value you have there, I noticed that the bubble would appear briefly when the slider was first displayed, and when I made the above change to 0, the bubble did not appear at all the first time I used the slider. The problem, it turns out, was that the bubble view's hidden property is initially NO, instead of YES, which confuses the code in the observeValueForKeyPath:... method. You set the alpha value of the view to 0.0, so it's not visible, but the hidden property is not in sync. Adding (at the end of -[ARAnnotatedSliderView _pageScrubberViewCommonInit]) the line:

bubbleView.hidden = YES;

fixes both problems.

Thank you again. I've made the changes to a cloned repo and I'll send you a pull request, in case you would like to incorporate the changes.

mmabetting: Why User Experience is Important

nospam@example.com (mmabetting) — Mon, 02 May 2011 01:15:00 +0200

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Mark Wadham: Why User Experience is Important

nospam@example.com (Mark Wadham) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:10:29 +0200

You may find it interesting to note that I have now decided to return the Android phone I bought and go back to an iPhone.

User experience was part of it, but the main issue was instability - today the phone crashed and reset itself and then separately randomly started playing music while I was in a lift and wouldn't stop. I can put up with a lesser ui experience, but I need to be able to rely on my phone and it seems that android is either too unstable in itself or simply allows apps to be too unstable.

I've used iphones for years and even with multiple cydia hacks installed, I've never had problems like this.

Maybe I'll give it another try in a year, for me it's not really ready yet. But, at least I tried :)

cchana: Why User Experience is Important

nospam@example.com (cchana) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:10:16 +0200

I have an Android device and for me, it's not the UX of the OS that's the problem. Thanks to the dedicated keys, as an example, some things are more intuitive. Personally, I find that the UX/UI within apps is the problem. That's partly down to Android lacking a real UI kit which is available to iOS developers. Some apps are well made and continue to improve.

Alexander Repty: Why User Experience is Important

nospam@example.com (Alexander Repty) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:41:31 +0200

Matthew,

note that I never said Mark shouldn't have switched to an Android phone. If that is his choice, and he's generally happy with it, who am I to judge his decision? If you're happy with your Android device, good for you.

It's just that, in my opinion, user experience is the most important thing about any piece of software (or a hardware device, for that matter) and it's an area in which Android is sorely lacking compared to iOS, which Mark really illustrated with his post.

As for taking choice chunks of someone else's post? It's called quoting.

Cheers,
Alex

Matthew Rigby: Why User Experience is Important

nospam@example.com (Matthew Rigby) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:37:13 +0200

Why do Apple fans try to put people off Android so much? It's getting increasingly more frequent as the platform gains more and more popularity and iOS remains at the percentage it has achieved. Taking choice chunks of someone's elses post, for what reason? What are you trying to achieve by naysaying?

Alexander Repty: On Going Indie

nospam@example.com (Alexander Repty) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:31:04 +0200

I take it you haven't seen Danny Greg's blitz talk at NSConference ;)

Rafael: On Going Indie

nospam@example.com (Rafael) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:27:40 +0200

Yeah, have you seen this new cool YouTube video? ;-)

Alexander Repty: On Going Indie

nospam@example.com (Alexander Repty) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:39:17 +0200

Rafael,

thanks :)

Cheers,
Alex

Alexander Repty: On Going Indie

nospam@example.com (Alexander Repty) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:39:00 +0200

Dennis,

thanks :)

I hope it goes the same way for me. The first day is going very smoothly so far ;)

Cheers,
Alex

Alexander Repty: On Going Indie

nospam@example.com (Alexander Repty) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:37:26 +0200

Davide,

thank you very much :)

I'll keep everyone posted on the new app.

Cheers,
Alex

Rafael Bugajewski: On Going Indie

nospam@example.com (Rafael Bugajewski) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:16:48 +0200

Congratulations! Like all other people I wish you only the best.

Dennis Blöte: On Going Indie

nospam@example.com (Dennis Blöte) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:27:10 +0200

Hey Alex, all the best for you and I hope you won't regret taking this step - I never did and I wish you the same!

Rock on,
Dennis :)

Davide Krähenbühl: On Going Indie

nospam@example.com (Davide Krähenbühl) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:01:57 +0200

My best wishes for your new job and I will wait for some news about your new application!

Alexander Repty: On Going Indie

nospam@example.com (Alexander Repty) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:44:50 +0200

Tony,

thanks :) I really hope that is what it'll be!

Cheers,
Alex