With each new release, Swift keeps getting better and better at creating compiler-generated implementations of common boilerplate. One such new feature in Swift 4.2 is the new CaseIterable protocol - that enables us to tell the compiler to automatically synthesize…

Usage of high-order functions like map and filter are very common in Swift projects, as they are simple algorithms that allow you to convert extensive ideas into simple one-liners. Unfortunately, they don't solve every issue - at least not in their default…

Making your Swift code more fun 🎉, magical ✨ and crunchier 👌

In this tutorial, I'll explain two examples of patterns in the "structural" category: facade and adapter. You will learn by building a simple Playgrounds project.

In this tutorial, you’ll create an app that uses audio playback, location updates, critical tasks, and background fetch to learn about the most common background modes.

Some tips for writing concise switch statements

Explore different notification models and when to use which

Reviewing my foray into using Result for error handling in Swift, and my realization of a particular use case it solves well.

In this article, we’ll take a look at a portion of the ModelIO framework we haven’t used so far: materials. In previous articles, we’ve used ModelIO to do the heavy lifting of loa…

Getting Started This article is a quick introduction to how to use the Metal, MetalKit, and Model I/O frameworks in Swift. If you know your way around UIKit or Cocoa development, you should be able…

In the previous article, we wrote enough Metal code to get the spinning silhouette of a teapot on the screen, but that still leaves a lot to be desired as far as a “modern” app is conce…

My book on getting to the #1 Spot in the App Store. Buy my games to support me. - GitHub - amirrajan/survivingtheappstore: My book on getting to the #1 Spot in the App Store. Buy my games to suppor...

Although the defer keyword was already introduced in Swift 2.0, it’s still quite uncommon to use it in projects. Its usage can be hard to…

The protocol oriented, Cocoa UI abstractions based way to handle the view controllers composition, navigation and deep linking tasks.

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A tree in the forest

Xcode is the core tool for Apple development. Although it is well-integrated with the most development workflows, from time to time you might feel like missing some basic features. In this article you will learn how to create Xcode Source Editor Extension…