Category: iOS
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iOS Simulator – Not able to type with the Mac Keyboard
When using the iOS simulator, I could not write in the text inputs with the Mac keyboard (so I needed to use the on-screen keyboard, which was a huge pain). If you face this issue, it turns out there is a setting, that enables it: Go to the “Simulator menu > I/O > Keyboard” and…
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Expo run:ios fails with something went wrong in the podfile (in VSCode terminal)
I was trying to create a dev build for an expo app locally by running npx expo run:ios, but this kept failing with the following error: After some time spent debugging, installing a newer ruby version, re-installing cocoapods and nuking whatever cache I could think of, it turned out to be due to the VS…
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React Native Shadow is Missing on iOS but is Okay on Android
In one of our projects, some of the items that had a shadow, was working just fine on Android, but the shadow was missing on iOS. After investigating it, it turned out to be related to the items that had overflow: ‘hidden’, which on iOS resulted in shadow being trimmed. Turns out on iOS, the…