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Magic of RxSwift. Rx Operators

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RxSwift uses quite a lot of operators utilizing reactive patterns. It is a core part where its magic happens. The Clarke’s third law says: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. In the previous article, we found out the basic object of the RxSwift, an Observable. The other significant… 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 »

[Book Review] App Architecture: iOS Application Design Patterns in Swift

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 »

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 »