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2023

Declarative UI talk at Google DevFest 2023

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The past weekend I was invited to speak at the Google Dev Fest event in Venice. I shared my experience with building UI using a declarative approach, giving ...

2021

2020

2019

StringsLint update

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I’ve just released a new version of StringsLint. Nothing major is going on, just simple maintainance and small improvements.

Check your localized strings with StringsLint

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Your app keeps growing and growing. You add new features and screens and, at some point, other features and screens are removed. One thing that most of the t...

2018

Alexa, can you help me?

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Yesterday I presented a talk about Alexa Skill development, an high level overview of the platform from both user and developer prospectives.

Average Alexa Skill Certification Times

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If you have develop iOS apps for few years, you remember that Apple took almost a full week to review each new app or update you submit. Since the time varie...

New blog engine and design

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Since the opening of this blog, it was powered by Octopress. Today all the madness regarding its management/update/etc ends.

2016

framer is now opensourced

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Today I finally complete the fastlane plugin called framer that allows us (Spreaker) to put all screenshots taken from the simulator into some nice and handm...

2016 Droidcon IT recap

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I attended the 2016 Droidcon conference in Turin (Italy) with my colleague Rocco.

Automate All-The-Things with: Git Hooks

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If you had the chance to work with some colleagues/friends on some projects, you already know that automate some boring tasks you have to do quite often is r...

2015

RxJava Talk at Hackatron

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Last week I did a talk about RxJava, a framework we’re using at Spreaker for a new project we’re working on.

fastlane vs iTC

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DISCLAMER: this is a living post. It will be updated frequently to add and update the code below as soon as fastlane/deliver will update. The list of changes...

SPChart update

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Last week I spent some time on charts, using my SPChart. A couple of new features were necessary so I added them:

UIPageViewController has Alzheimer

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Since iOS 6, UIPageViewController has a bug in swipe mode that show the wrong page after setting programmaticaly new view controllers in it and swiping back.

2014

iPhone app became Universal, by mistake

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To support to iPhone 6 (and 6 Plus) bigger screens in Spreaker Radio app I prepared a LaunchScreen.xib file to let the splashscreen adapt to any screen size...

SPChart

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Last week I worked on implementing a new statistics section of Spreaker iPhone app. Thanks to our graphic designer, the chart UI is beautiful to see and to i...

2013

Initial Commit

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First post, just to start this blog.