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Rafael Schmitt

I've been a huge tech nerd since forever. I care about beautiful things, how they work and acknowledging the world's biggest challenges DON'T start with software.

A big room with an enclosed first iPhone in the center, illuminated from the bottom. Steve Jobs is to it's right, looking at the phone, and a crowd surrounds both the podium and him.

We're So Back 🤘

iPhones haven't been exciting for a while now. In 2020 we got an iPhone 5 revival with the squared off sides of the iPhone 12. More refinements have come since, screen borders have got thinner, but aside from the Dynamic Island in 2022 there's arguably little

Experiment, Experiment, Experiment

Experiment, Experiment, Experiment

Two months ago I went for a walk (as John Green once said, I have to fucking walk for my fucking mental health) and put on the latest ATP episode expecting just some comfortable nerdery on the MacBook Neo. That episode, though, was not just any ATP episode. It was

Why Dùn

As humans, we're a complex bunch. We contain multitudes as John Green said when talking about the Paper Towns movie. We can be day programmers and singers and dancers on the side. We can have white-collar jobs and do drag when off the clock. The backgrounds that

A Possible 4th iPhone?

A Possible 4th iPhone?

Recently, a friend 3D-printed the latest mockup of what the upcoming foldable iPhone will supposedly be and gave it to me. I love this thing. Handling stuff in the physical world is SO much better than watching videos and seeing pictures while trying to imagine what Apple is cooking

5 iPhone Airs stand upright side by side against a white background. 4 of them are on their backs, showing the 4 available colors, and one has it's screen facing the camera.

The Elusive 4th iPhone

If like me you're a millennial nearing (or already past) 30, you have seen Apple fork the road of iPhone some times before. In the beginning Apple would release a single new model. That was true from 2007, the year of the very first 2G model, to 2012

Quickie: Redesigning for Liquid Glass? ToolbarContent is your friend

Quickie: Redesigning for Liquid Glass? ToolbarContent is your friend

One of the first things any trained eye will notice about the new UI design in iOS 26 is how different app toolbars look. They look very different. To me that's one of the most exciting changes and adopting this on day one is a way to set

A dirt road on the background is complemented by a yellow traffic sign with an arrow pointing right.

Quickie: Programmatic navigation in the age of Tabs and Tab roles

So in my previous Quickie post I mentioned I had to depart from .tag() in my app's main view because I started using Tab for the phone UI as well since I wanted to use the new role: .search option. Well, inspired by other discoveries in my iOS

Quickie: How to get the new Search button on iOS 26

Quickie: How to get the new Search button on iOS 26

Updated on July 4 @ 7:15pm BRT: The original version of this post said the solution below was nowhere to be found on Apple's materials. That was a mistake, it's here. If you've been reading and watching WWDC25 content like me, you've

A bright red Dahlia flower stands before many green leaves in an open field.

Design Pattern Review: Memento

Welcome to my Design Pattern Review series. On this series of blog posts I plan on reviewing both consolidated software design patterns as well as lesser known ones (at least to me). As software developers we're dealing with the intersection of the creative and the established. We'

4 colorful squares 4 meters wide stand vertically on a lush green park. Beneath them there are a couple of rocks, creating a art installation in Instituto Inhotim, Minas Gerais, Brasil.

Don't hold your breath for UIKit's deprecation

SwiftUI might be the future—but the past isn’t going anywhere just yet. Ever since Apple introduced SwiftUI in 2019 much has been said about UIKit being dead. "Eventually it will die too" is a phrase I have said, eagerly waiting for the perfect day where all

Thank You, Bolsonaro - Part 2

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Thank You, Bolsonaro - Part 2

As you probably guessed by the title, this is part 2 of the story of how I created the Medo e Delírio iOS app. You can find part 1 here. The middle Ok, let's now focus on the good stuff. Below is a showcase of the key features

Thank You, Bolsonaro - Part 1

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Thank You, Bolsonaro - Part 1

This is a two-part story of how my first published iOS app came to be. Part 1 will focus on what the app is, why I decided to make it and early days. Part 2 is more technical, detailing the story and also the motivations behind the app'

An iPhone over a colorful background. On the phone's screen a white rectangle shows the upload progress for a Story.

Instagram's Live Activity Is Not Doing What You Think It's Doing

So I'm yet again using my personal project to gain some dopamine and decided Live Activities would bring that golden touch I was looking for. As any young-ish person in the Western world, I use Instagram way more than I would like to admit. Since, I think,

Let's do this

My name is Rafael, I'm an iOS developer and tech enthusiast from Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. This is From Rafael with Code, my first blog. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay