Installation steps of cocoapods in the new Macs with M1 chipset is little different than Intel based Macs. If we casually run `pod install`, we are likely to encounter error related to the ffi gem 🤨. Open the terminal and follow below steps to solve the error and install pod dependencies successfully. Step1 : At first, install ffi gem intel version > sudo arch -x86_64 gem install ffi Steps 2: Install cocoapod > sudo gem install cocoapods Steps 3 (optional) : Go to project root folder and initialise pod file if not created already. > arch -x86_64 pod init Steps 4: Now Install pod dependencies. > arch -x86_64 pod install
Recently I published a countdown app . At one point of development - I have to show a timer on a UILabel which ticks on each seconds. As usual I started setting text to a label object - self .timerLabel.text = someString Easy piece of cake right !? But wait ... it won't take much user attention when timer ticks on every seconds. So I decided to make use of a simple animation while label gets text update. I found there are dozens of ways to animate a label. In this short article, I listed 3 best way you can animate text on a label. ( Spoiler Alert 👀- I decided to go with 3rd option) 1. Fade In - Fade out animation : CATransition class has got transition type `fade`. With timing function of CATransition - I was able to see the below result. let animation: CATransition = CATransition () animation.timingFunction = CAMediaTimingFunction (name: CAMediaTimingFunctionName .easeInEaseOut) animation.type = CATransitionType .fade animation.subtype = C...