Make your Pi speak with text to speech from Amazon Polly
A short tutorial on how to create a text to speech reader in Python using Polly – an Amazon Web Service.
Raspberry Pi – my new love ;)
So the story is that once in a while I become obsessed with a new idea or a project. I’m kind of a hotspur and usually try things out immediately. I did fall for needle felted animals and various handmade stuff, I developed bunch…
My Magic Hours project – what’s up next
This is my 20th post filed under get noticed tag, which means that I have reached the contest’s finish line :) Hip hip hooray! So I’ve made a short movie on this occasion, showing what my app can do at the moment. I have to warn you,…
Who doesn’t like hamburgers? ;)
A hamburger menu or a pancake menu is a button usually placed in a top corner of a mobile app. The name comes from button’s icon which takes form of three horizontal lines ☰ resembling the layers of a hamburger or a pile of pancakes. I love both ;)…
Implementing UICollectionView with horizontal scrolling and dynamic cell sizes
One of my magic hours app feature will be the ability to search for a location and save it for the future use. I need a control that will display my stored locations and I decided that I’ll place it at the bottom of the app’s…
A few thoughts on designing iOS layout
There was a slight change in concept of how I want my magic hours app main screen to look, comparing to what I’ve presented in my previous post. I’ve decided that timeline control would be, maybe, more suitable. So I had to finally deal with proper…
Localizing iOS app with SwiftGen
I came with my app development to a stage where I’m about to inform user about various things happening behind the scenes. This means that I have to present messages like: estimating current location, fetching weather forecast, etc. somewhere in the user interface. And this is the…
Fetching weather forecast in Swift
Yesterday I got really excited :) I’m talking about a feeling when you’re dealing with something which is still new for you, but at the same time you begin to understand how things are organised and what should be done to achieve the goal. I felt…
Creating custom control in Swift
I spent last two evenings working on my app’s main screen. Again, Xcode was driving me crazy with random bugs that efficiently slowed me down ;) I needed to add an action by ctrl dragging element from storyboard to ViewController class. As I already…
Designing Magic hour’s app main screen
Today I focused on designing my application’s main screen. It’s going to be different than in my windows phone project. My previous app’s landing screen was in a form of a dashboard with tiles: Since I’m now able to calculate sunrise and sunset hours without going…
Calculating sunrise and sunset hours in Swift
After two days of struggle I came up with my application screen showing this :) There’s sunrise time in the first label and sunset time in the second. At least now I can see the pros of having emoji here :). Calculating these two is crucial for…
Apples taken with a grain of salt
The weather outside is just too good to stay at home and code and yesterday was April Fool’s Day. So I decided that today’s post is going to be lightweight and not so serious. I’m going to make fun of Apple. A little bit ;) There’s…
Damn, it’s hard…
It’s hard to get used to the new IDE, new shortcuts, new programming language and the new OS at the same time. I feel like a kid who got lost in the woods. And it’s getting dark! Stay calm, don’t panic and try to…