Code reviews are an important part of our day-to-day life as developers. They improve the codebase and they help us learn. When we review code, especially when we’re under pressure, we could rush things and make mistakes or oversights. Fortunately, there’s a tool that can review the code for us…. Read more »
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 »
Almost every project that you’ll work on will have some bugs in it. On some legacy apps you might even spend most of your time debugging. In this article we’ll cover some debugging tips&tricks to help you out with your debugging adventures and save you some time. Debugging Tab When… Read more »
libPhoneNumber-iOS is an iOS port of the Google’s libPhoneNumber library. It’s very simple to use and with cocoapods it’s real easy to get started with it. In this blog post we’ll go over setting up your project and we’ll get started parsing phone numbers with libPhoneNumber-iOS. The Library Like we… Read more »
ResearchKit is a different kind of a framework. It’s used in apps that are conducting medical research. Apple has made this framework completely open source and anyone can contribute to it. It’s available on GitHub if you want to check it out. In this article we’ll go over the main… Read more »
HealthKit is Apple’s framework for managing health data. In this article we’ll go over the basics of using HealthKit and show you how you can read and write data to the health store. We’ll create a simple app that will read some profile data of the user, energy and water… Read more »
Another year is behind us my friends. One more year of writing articles and another 52 of them in the archive. I’m happy to say, we didn’t miss a single week and managed to publish one article per week for the whole year. I would like to take this opportunity… Read more »
I read a nice little book recently about architectural design patterns on iOS. The book was written by the well-known trio behind the objc.io website; Florian, Matt and Chris. It’s called App Architecture: iOS Application Design Patterns in Swift. We’ll do a quick review of the book in this article…. Read more »
Password strength meters are a great way to visually indicate to the users if their password is acceptable. Implementing one from scratch is no easy feat. Fortunately, dropbox has developed an open source library just for this purpose called zxcvbn. It’s multi-platform and easy to use. In this short article… Read more »
We don’t have a garbage collector in swift, so we need to understand the memory graph of our apps. If we’re not careful with object references we can easily create strong reference cycles and leak memory. Sooner of later, you’ll find yourself hunting down that illusive memory leak. Fortunately, we… Read more »
