Category Archives: Architecture

Events Driven Architecture in iOS with MERLin

If you are not new to iOS development, you know how important is to correctly decouple app components for testability and overall flexibility. Each feature should work independently from the others. Ideally, each feature should be easily replaceable with another component providing the same functionality. To achieve this result we… Read more »

Get started with RxSwift and reactive programming

The Reactive programming is getting popular as it is a completely different paradigm. Programmers use imperative programming quite a long time and it is prevailing nowadays. We are observing the RxSwift version 4.0 along with RxCocoa 4.0. The latter is the set of extensions for Cocoa elements such as UITextField,… Read more »

Cross-platform iOS development with JavaScript and React Native. Part one

JavaScript running iOS applications can have the same or close to native performance. Do you believe this or not? Let’s find out. The first cross-platform framework that comes to mind is React Native. It is a framework for cross-platform development on iOS and Android. It uses JavaScript and TypeScript which… Read more »

Dependency Managers: Carthage

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Carthage is a decentralised dependency manager for iOS/OSX. In this post, we’ll see how you can declare your project Carthage compatible and how to use Carthage in your projects. Carthage vs Cocoapods Carthage is a decentralised dependency manager. What this means is that, unlike Cocoapods, it does not rely on… Read more »