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Let’s say! you have large text and you would like your user to search through the text but in the search results you don’t want to show the full text. You want to show the prefix and suffix for the searched string with some limit. See the image below for illustration.

So, the first step is to find out the range for the user query in the targeted string for example, text is the user query in the above illustration. Finding the range of substring is pretty simple in swift and it just requires one line of code.

let range = someString.range(of…

In this article we are going to explore simple technique to make synchronised splash animation. The end result will look like this:

Create a new `xcode` project with `single view app` template.

If you are using `xcode 11` then make sure to select `storyboard` instead of `SwiftUI` and name the project whatever you want.

In this tutorial we are going to draw a directed polyline (draw small direction arrow) by using Google Maps iOS SDK. The end result will look like the following screenshot.

I am assuming you have setup the google maps iOS SDK for your project. For the sake of simplicity for this tutorial i will be using hard coded geo json. GeoJSON is a format for encoding a variety of geographic data structures which may contains array of array which consists longitude and latitude. I repeat longitude and latitude.

The GeoJSON used in this tutorial can be found here.

Steps to draw directed polyline

• Step 1: Convert Geo JSON into array of ‘CLLocationCoordinate2D’. …

Once upon a time there is an old man living in the city and he decided to migrate to some other place. While travelling, a jungle comes in his way. He was moving forward and crossing a lake through a wooden bridge. When he was in the middle, suddenly he saw a scorpion struggling for its life as it was sinking in the water. The old man move forward to save the Scorpion. While he was picking the Scorpion from water, Scorpion did a bite on his hand and it get dropped from his hand.

A man behind the old man was watching all the scene silently. After the third attempt the man asked the old man…

Are you a muslim? You are feeling lazy to offer prayer, you will start providing yourself a reason about why you are not offering prayer. Few of them are:

Reason 1: I will start offering prayer from tomorrow…

It’s a myth. Most probably you will be providing the same reason to yourself the next day.

Reason 2: I am tired now…

If you are tired and offering prayer surely Almighty Allah will give you more strength and reward.

Reason 3: My clothes are not clean and pure…

If you can change the clothes go get them changed and offer your prayer. If you are in a situation where you cannot change them and you know the unpure point of it then wash it and offer your prayer. Otherwise just take a roughly estimation of unpure point and wash them. …

Like many others I am also an iPhone user. One day I was just exploring my iPhone and unintentionally I go to the System Services under the Privacy settings. I was shocked to see that my iPhone was tracking my locations as I travel.

However, the way iOS present that location data is not interactive. For example, it shows the location circle with zoomed map and sometime you cannot identify where exactly you were.