Learn how to identify and remove degenerate state in your UIViewControllers and UIViews with Swift 5. This allows to significantly simplify your view controllers and views Swift code.

Swift 5 switches the preferred encoding of strings from UTF-16 to UTF-8 while preserving efficient Objective-C-interoperability. Because the String type abstracts away these low-level concerns, no source-code changes from developers should be necessary*,…

We’re all familiar with the Error type, but have you met these related Swift Foundation error protocols?

In one of my previous posts, we talked about the Pattern Matching feature of Swift language. We discussed how we could use “case let” keyword in our daily development to find patterns in Enums, Turples, and Optionals. But today we are going to talk about…

Enumerations are not just first-class citizens in Swift. They adopt many features traditionally supported only by classes, such as computed properties or static and instance methods. Enumerations can also define custom initialisers, can be extended to expand…

For Swift developers, Vapor has become an increasingly apt choice for a mobile backend. I decided to deep dive into Vapor and see if it is a viable choice.

How an apparently useless project and a tweet can make you publish your first article.

Custom transitions are a great way of controlling user focus. In this article we are going to implement come custom transitions using segues.

A situation that most Swift developers will encounter at one point or another is when some form of type erasure is needed to be able to reference a generic protocol. This week, let’s start by taking a look at what makes type erasure such an essential technique…

If you’re new to iOS development the differences between a text label, a text field or a text view can be confusing. Here’s a quick guide for when you’re not sure which to use.

You will always hear that writing tests is a good thing. But are you 100% sure about the pertinence of your test suite? What if you test only edges cases and miss something? Property based testing let you generate your tests instead of writing them. Let’s…

I was removing quite a few protocols and classes lately. Turns out, I like what's left. I relied on classes for example because they can be subclassed ...

Swift 5 is now officially released!

Dear {INSERT NETWORKING LIBRARY NAME HERE},

There is no simple way to say this, but our time together is over. You have
caused me too many headaches. From countless memory leaks
[https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking/issues?utf8=✓&q=is%3Aissue+memory+leak]…

This is the third article of our macOS programming tutorial series. You'll learn how to work with alerts, sheets, and how to present a modal windows.

When we last wrote about extending Xcode, we were living in a golden age, and didn’t even know it. Plugins allowed us to tweak pretty much everything about Xcode; Source Editor Extensions? Not so much.

Arguably one of the most challenging aspects of building apps for most platforms is making sure that the UI we present to the user always remains in sync with our underlying data models, and many techniques have been invented in order to address this problem.…

It’s been a while since I’ve worked on a personal project, but I’ve been having an itch to make some new <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/ios" target="_blank">iOS</a> apps and yesterday morning I decided to go ahead and hack something together.

Testing applications is a critical component of development. As we iterate on our applications, we may change the UI in unintended ways…