Composing Accessibility Identifiers for SwiftUI Components
Learn how to compose Accessibility Identifiers with the same ergonomics as modifying View with padding, background or foreground colorsImage created by author using ProcreateWhat Are Accessibility Identifiers, and What Are They For?Accessibility identifiers can be used to reliably distinguish an element (XCUIElement) in UI automated tests (XCUITests). The alternatives either have
Read moreTextInputLayout Censoring With Password-Like Method
Photo by Anja Bauermann on UnsplashEver wonder, how to make the text inside TextInputLayout censored and/or partially censored? But the plot twist is, how can you censor the text without putting a “password” property on its inputType to accomplish this task?How about setting it as a censored text first, then putting it
Read moreEgnyte is bringing generative AI capabilities to its storage platform
Egnyte introduced some new generative AI tools today, and revealed more of what’s coming on the AI roadmap. The company also pointed out that it has been incorporating AI into the platform for over a decade, and is not simply jumping on the bandwagon of the moment. Today, it’s announcing
Read moreVolkswagen takes stake in Xpeng as part of Chinese EV deal
VW Group announced Wednesday a pair of deals with Chinese automakers aimed at shoring up sales in China. The German automaker said it will invest $700 million into Chinese automaker Xpeng as part of a deal to jointly develop and produce two mid-sized EVs for China. Volkswagen will acquire a
Read moreHow I Conduct an Accessibility Audit
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Read moreSource: Crowdstrike is close to acquiring Bionic.AI for between $200M and $300M
It sounds like another M&A deal is about to go down in the world of cybersecurity. Sources tell TechCrunch that Crowdstrike is in advanced negotiations to acquire Bionic.AI — a security posture management platform for cloud services — for between $200 million and $300 million. A deal has yet to
Read moreRIP Digits, the New York Times math game
The New York Times announced last week that it will stop making Digits, a math puzzle game that debuted in beta in April. The last of these daily math puzzles will go up on August 8. Digits is a fun game. It earned a slot in my daily rotation of
Read moreBlackRock and Reliance’s finance unit to form asset management venture
The world’s largest asset manager is re-entering India — and it’s doing so in a partnership with India’s richest man. Jio Financial Services and BlackRock said Wednesday they have agreed to form a joint venture, called Jio BlackRock, as the Indian conglomerate Reliance’s finance unit begins the lucrative asset management
Read morePlatform engineering is just DevOps with a product mindset
Since it was introduced in 2009, the DevOps mindset has encouraged organizations to put resources behind improving metrics like lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery (MTTR). This approach worked for many leading engineering organizations to develop, deliver, and ship software faster and more efficiently
Read moreEffectiv’s fraud tools determine if it is you or your deep fake making that bank withdrawal
We have the power to transfer money to anyone, from anywhere, without having to step foot in a bank branch. And with great power comes great responsibility amid bank transfer or payment fraud amounting to $1.6 billion in 2022. Ravi Sandepudi, co-founder and CEO of Effectiv, told TechCrunch that now
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