Blog - Smin Rana

Best Screenshot Apps for macOS in 2026 (and Why Captix Is My New Favorite)
Taking quick screenshots is something every Mac user does daily — developers, designers, students, content creators, and even casual users. The built-in macOS tool is good… but if you need instant cloud upload, screen recording, or shareable links, you need more. CleanShot X Best for:… Read more: Best Screenshot Apps for macOS in 2026 (and Why Captix Is My New Favorite)
Essential App Store Checklist: Launch Your App with Confidence
This blog post “Essential App Store Checklist: Launch Your App with Confidence” provides a comprehensive guide for developers preparing to launch their mobile app on various app stores. It emphasizes the importance of thorough preparation to ensure a smooth launch and successful visibility. Key elements:… Read more: Essential App Store Checklist: Launch Your App with Confidence
Sync your Macs with iCloud
As a software developer, I always strive to streamline my workflow and maximize the tools at my disposal. One of the challenges I faced was synchronizing my Macs with various Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) and editors I used for different projects, especially all the snippets… Read more: Sync your Macs with iCloud
VS Code for Laravel Development
VS Code for Laravel Development VS Code is one of the best editors available to developers now, no doubt about it, I always wanted to have such an editor which would support 4/5 languages. Changing your editor or IDE for each language is cumbersome, many… Read more: VS Code for Laravel Development
Android ExoPlayer with Fullscreen button
Android ExoPlayer ExoPlayer is an open-source media player for Android developed by Google. It is designed to be used as a replacement for the Android platform’s built-in media player, and it offers many advanced features such as dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH), smooth streaming,… Read more: Android ExoPlayer with Fullscreen button
Generic in Swift
Generic in Swift In the Swift programming language, the term “generic” refers to a type or function that can work with any type, rather than being tied to a specific type. This allows for greater flexibility and code reuse. For example, a generic function can… Read more: Generic in Swift
Extensions in Swift
Extensions in Swift In Swift, an extension is a way to add new functionality to an existing class, structure, enumeration, or protocol type. This can include adding new methods, computed properties, and initializers, as well as providing new implementations of existing methods, properties, and subscripts.… Read more: Extensions in Swift
Subscript in Swift
Subscript in Swift By implementing Subscript we can set and retrieve structure value by index (associative array or dictionary style) without separate methods for setting and retrieval. Classes and Enumerations can define subscripts too. For example, I want to build an Address struct that can… Read more: Subscript in Swift
Associated Type in Swift
Associated Type in Swift In Swift, an associated type is a placeholder name for a type that is used as part of the protocol. The actual type to be used for the associated type is not specified until the protocol is adopted. Associated types are… Read more: Associated Type in Swift
MySQL RANGE Partition
MySQL RANGE Partition When partition doesn’t help It’s tempting to believe that partition will solve performance problems. But it is so often wrong. Partitioning splits up one table into several smaller tables. But table size is rarely a performance issue. Instead, I/O time and indexes… Read more: MySQL RANGE Partition
Decode Apple Receipt
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App Store Server Notifications V2 with JWT, PHP and Laravel
App Store Server Notifications App Store Server Notifications is a server-to-server service that notifies you in real-time when the status of in-app purchases and refunds changes. Use the data in the notifications to update your user-account database, and to monitor and respond to in-app purchase… Read more: App Store Server Notifications V2 with JWT, PHP and Laravel
How can I add item number on the cart icon on AppBar icon in Flutter
Having a shopping cart icon on the right side of the AppBar on Flutter it’s not that hard, you can use basically a stack widget and inside the stack get IconButton and Positioned widgets. Here is the code and screenshot
Download PDF in Flutter using Java on Android
Downloading PDF file in the user download directory on Android is a very common feature, a lot of app uses PDF viewing and downloading feature. I hoped that flutter plugins could solve my problem but they didn’t. Fortunately, it was working great on iOS but… Read more: Download PDF in Flutter using Java on Android
API testing in Flutter
It is very common to use API in our Flutter projects. Testing makes the Flutter project very easy to maintain, in this way you will save a lot of debugging time. Also when you have testing in place you can always check whether API working… Read more: API testing in Flutter