Swift on the Server

A large number of modern mobile applications interact with web services in one way or another, and iOS applications are no different. Mantle (a model framework) and Realm (a mobile database) come with the promise of simplifying some of the hurdles in consuming…

When developing an app which its data is fetched from remote server and need to be cached inside for faster data displaying, you should really go with an efficient way in both performance and code involved. Here we have several requirements for our latest…

We explore how to build a Data Persistence Layer on top of Realm, using struct based models and type-safe queries.

A maintainable component. Reusable. Just a dream? Maybe not. SOLID principles, may be the way.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn all about encoding and decoding in Swift, exploring the basics and advanced topics like custom dates and custom encoding.

1- How could you set up Live Rendering? The attribute @IBDesignable lets Interface Builder perform live updates on a particular view…

Check out Part 1, if you haven’t already :). Let’s get started.

A better way to reload data

Debugging Swift code with LLDB As engineers we spend almost 70% of our time on debugging. The rest 20% goes on thinking about the architectural approaches + communication with teammates and just 10% …

Updated on October 12, 2016 – Swift 3.0
Callbacks: What are they? How do they work? What are they used for in practice?
My goal in this article is to provide answers to these questions so that you have a foundational understanding of this common programming…

The delegate pattern is okay. But there’s a better way.

What if your AR app needs to make use of a realtime data to be able to provide a deep, compelling experience?

In Bites #316 (https://littlebitesofcocoa.com/316) and #317 (https://littlebitesofcocoa.com/316), we began looking at Swift's new Codable (Encodable & Decodable) protocols. Today we'll continue by learning more about how Swift Enums work can work with these…

Assertions are not only an essential tool when writing tests - they're also super useful in order to write more predictable and easier to debug code. This week, let's look deeper into assertions, how they work, and how we can implement our own assert functions…

After doing web development since PHP4.1, I almost gave up and decided to learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Then I discovered Laravel two years ago and have been using it since. I have also been developing Swift and Objective-C for iOS and macOS and released