@autoclosure attribute improves the performance, adds a convenience, but reduces the code readability

What happens when we combine Swift's conditional conformance with codability?

This post comes from this tweet shared by David Rodrigues (if you don't follow him on Twitter you should): If you have a closure that needs some internal state to be used and modified between executions of the closure you can declare your state as part of…

Nowadays there are a million apps that solve users’ needs, so it is becoming hard to create something new or be better than market…

While subclassing is not universally bad, avoiding it can in many situations leave us with simpler code that is easier to change and reuse. This week, let's take a look at a few different techniques that can help us write subclass-free view controllers, and…

Here's another article of the serie "The easiest ". Previous one on Core Data here -> The easiest Core Data. Swift 5 will most likely include async/await, which will be a revolution for handling concurrency at language level. See Chris Lattner's proposal…

Daniel Tull is a freelance software developer in Exeter, UK.

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…

Last few months I was working on implementing Accessibility support for my app. During this years WWDC I’ve visited all Accessibility…

Being able to use unit testing in a productive way often requires the various parts of an app to be written with testability in mind, which isn't always the case. This week, let's take a look at a few different refactoring techniques that can help us make…

fastlane comes bundled with a tool that makes taking screenshots simple. In this article we'll go over setting up your project to use fastlane snapshot.

This year’s WWDC had a great talk on designing fluid interfaces. My main takeaway from this talk was how important gesture driven…

In the past iOS was always about living in the moment - totally focused on whatever the user was attempting to do. This approach was good news for users as it allowed for a very responsive user experience on performance constrained devices however as app…

Today, we’re excited to open source our Twitter Network Layer framework for iOS, or TNL for short.