Tag: ios
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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…
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JS Date object and iOS Safari
Safari on iOS is probably one of the best mobile browsers. Still there is one thing that I often got wrong and wonder why my webapp doesn’t work. Javascript Date Object in iOS Safari In every normal browser you could just create a Date object from string as var myDate = new Date(‘2013-01-21T13:46:20’); But on…
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Apple web-app geolocation on iOS6 is broken
I’ve found a really interesting issue with the iOS6 webapp applications – you just cannot use the getCurrentPosition() function if the app is bookmarked on your homescreen. This function hangs and neither calls the success nor the error callback function. Seems it’s only the case if your app is in fullscreen mode (bookmarked on your…