I was creating an admin dashboard based on Laravel. UI components were reactive and build upon the vuejs framework. I will have a post on my experience with the vuejs framework someday.

I was switching between a compilation of Vue component changes and running the laravel localhost server. A regular serve command to start localhost:

php artisan serve —host 192.168.10.203 —port 8000

I was serving at the IP address of the machine so I could test conveniently from other machines and devices connected to LAN.

Between development precess somehow the laravel artisan process mustn’t have closed properly. When I attempted to serve localhost I received this error:

Failed to listen on localhost:8000(reason: Address already in use)

We have used struct for purposes like small-scale copiable entity representing common-kinds-of-data. What if we want to make our custom struct model equatable? We want our struct to be analysed for basic equality of comparison. What if we have an array of struct and we want to perform some operation to array like sorting or create an unique array by removing duplicate structs.

We have seen this error shown when we try to perform such operation of comparison:

Type ‘CustomStruct’ does not conform to protocol ‘Hashable’

I have been ignoring the message to upgrade awsebcli tool for long time. This time I did not ignore and made an attempt to upgrade:

pip install --upgrade awsebcli

No matching distribution found for botocore<1.22.0,>=1.21.0 (from awsebcli)

pip install --upgrade pip --user

sudo pip install --upgrade awsebcli botocore==1.19.63

ERROR: pip's legacy dependency resolver does not consider dependency conflicts when selecting packages. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
boto3 1.7.68 requires botocore<1.11.0,>=1.10.68, but you'll have botocore 1.19.63 which is incompatible.
awsebcli 3.20.2 requires botocore<1.22.0,>=1.21.0, but you'll have botocore 1.19.63 which is incompatible.

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It installed with errors. I verified installation by deploying my new update to beanstalk environment to see if awsebcli tool is working fine. It did not. I got this error:

File “/usr/local/bin/eb”, line 5, in 
    from ebcli.core.ebcore import main
  File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ebcli/core/ebcore.py”, line 19, in 
    from ebcli.core import ebglobals, base, hooks
  File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ebcli/core/hooks.py”, line 20, in 
    from ebcli.core import fileoperations
  File “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ebcli/core/fileoperations.py”, line 32, in 
    from json import load, JSONDecodeError
ImportError: cannot import name JSONDecodeError

Solution:

Sometime there may be need to resize the image displayed in UIButton for not availability of proper sized image because of some reason. Wrong size gives unwanted results like stretched out image pixels etc. In this post we are assuming simple UIButton with image only.

First solution:

btn.imageView?.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit

This will solve the 50% of problem because UIButton will render the image maintaining the aspect ratio.

Now if in worst case scenario problem isn’t solved because of bigger dimension of image then we have second solution:

Recently someone brought me a problem that needed my perspective. A vertical UICollectionView is using sections for displaying items. Requirement is to scroll to bottom of UICollectionView. A method that can be used used for scrolling to last item in UICollectionView is

This method worked incomplete. It made collection view to last item. Isn’t that what is required? There is a custom footer at the end of section and footer needs to be visible. It did not scroll to last footer but stopped just before footer.

To find the information regarding offset on our footer view we will gather layout information for that particular supplementary view. Remember supplementary view can be either header or footer so this works for both. Here is an extension to UICollectionView

Frequently asked questions on Annapurna Base Camp trek.

• Where can I start ABC trek to save time?
• How to reach Ghandruk directly from Pokhara?
• What is the shortest ABC trek route?
• How difficult is the ABC trek?
• How are the conditions of Tea Houses?
• What are the costs of food and shelter?
• Can I get altitude sickness at ABC?
• Is Jhinu Hotspring worth visiting?
• Do I need Rain Cover?

Animation is a common feature we use often in our apps. iOS SDK does provide different ways to implement. From higher-level UIKit methods to more lower Core Animation. Any UIKit based animation is internally translated into core animations. UIKit methods abstracts the layer of core animation.

Today here we will see the higher-level UIKit animation’s equivalent in Android’s Kotlin - one of the ways that Android SDK provides us. We will use ViewPropertyAnimator - a simplified and optimised way to animate properties of a View in Android. A simple example to rotate a view by certain angle for a duration and also callback implementation when animation ends.

Below is the equivalent code snippet for Android Animation in Kotlin and iOS animation on views with UIKit.

Each tab of a tab bar controller is associated with a view controller. When the user selects a specific tab, the tab bar controller displays the root view of the corresponding view controller, replacing any previous views. The tab bar interface displays tabs at the bottom for selecting between the different display views.

Tab bar controller lets us to implement easy multi-selection of displays easily. In this user interface style tabs at the bottom remains visible. Display switches between selection at child controller section above.

Comes a situation where view controller associated with a specific tab to display modally or push where Tabs at bottom gets covered behind this view controller. Instagram app is a good example where when create-post-tab is pressed, then display is opened over the tab controller.

How to present UITabBarItem’s view controller modally?

To disconnect a connected peripheral in CoreBluetooth we call method cancelPeripheralConnection

centralManager.cancelPeripheralConnection(peripheral)

This did disconnect peripheral in CoreBluetooth. In my program there is code that caches old discovered peripherals for certain period. It does go through cached peripherals to search for their services. What I found was that even if peripheral was disconnected code was somehow discovering the services and characteristics. There is a segment of code which is written to trigger certain behaviour when characteristics of peripheral is discovered. I did not want this for disconnected peripherals. Problem is not an issue for there are very simple solution for this scenario like checking the state of peripherals before trigger and etc.

I am emphasizing that Disconnected peripheral’s services still can be discovered in CoreBluetooth. Which is not an issue. I had assumed that when peripheral gets disconnected it removes its services and characteristics.

These methods do get called up even if peripheral is no more connected.

func peripheral(_ peripheral: CBPeripheral, didDiscoverServices error: Error?)
func peripheral(_ peripheral: CBPeripheral, didDiscoverCharacteristicsFor service: CBService, error: Error?)