Douglas Hill

I make iPad apps to help people learn and achieve more. I’m the iOS lead at PSPDFKit.

Apps

• PDF Viewer: A powerful app to read, search, and annotate PDF documents. I make this with my teammates at PSPDFKit.

• Reading app: My simple app to save webpages to read later. Eternally in open beta testing. This is my main side project.

• Magic Spell: My handy Mac app to check spelling in many files at once. Not actively maintained.

• Cambugs: A suite of apps developed with educational psychologists to help teach children to become fluent readers.

Code

• KeyboardKit: The easiest way to add comprehensive hardware keyboard control to an iPad or Mac Catalyst app.

• DynamicButtonStack: A UIKit view that lays out buttons in either a column or a row to suit the available space. Read more: Motivation and design details.

Articles

• WWDC 2020 and iOS 14
  • What’s New in KeyboardKit for iOS 14?
  • The Case for Lists in UICollectionView
  • Breaking down the remote WWDC experience
  • iPad-focused WWDC 2020 wish list
• Level Up Your Trackpad Support Using UIInteraction
• Localisation using Apple’s glossaries
• Making the most of remote work
• Improving iOS menus by putting icons on the left with swizzling
• Page Up, Page Down, Home and End in Catalyst apps
• Presentation controllers and adaptive presentations
• Open Links in Safari, Not Safari View Controller
• Self-sizing table view cells in practice
• Smart grid sizing
• Why I made Magic Spell
• My favourite games of 2015
• My favourite games of 2013

Talks

• Keyboard control in UIKit apps (NSLondon Q1 2019, AltConf San Jose 2019, iOS Conf SG 2020 and the iPhreaks podcast)
• Beyond size classes: Making better use of large screens (iOSDevUK 2019)
• Improving user experience with Apple Pencil (AltConf San Jose 2018)

Elsewhere

• I’m @qdoug on Twitter.
• I’m an organiser of the NSLondon meetup.