iOSTutorials
Using Handoff
Handoff is a great way for your users to resume an activity on any device. Let's say your users start reading an article on an iPhone, they can easily continue reading it right where they left off on...
Dejan Agostini
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DispatchGroup vs. OperationQueue in Swift
You probably found yourself in a situation where you had to do a bunch of asynchronous tasks and you just wanted to get notified when all of them finish. There are two easy ways of doing this:...
Dejan Agostini
iOSTutorials
Sharing Data Between Applications and Extensions Using App Groups
If you ever needed to share data between your iOS apps and/or your application targets, there's a very easy way to do this using app groups. In this post we'll see how to share data between two apps...
Dejan Agostini
iOSTutorials
Monitoring Files Using Dispatch Sources
If you need to know when a file has been modified, renamed, deleted... there's an easy way to do it using dispatch sources. In this post, we'll create a simple library that will notify you when a...
Dejan Agostini
LanguageSwift
Understanding Operation and OperationQueue in Swift
There are more ways than one to do concurrent operations on iOS. In this article, we'll cover how to use Operations and OperationQueue to execute concurrent operations. There's a lot to be said (and...
Dejan Agostini
LanguageSwift
Memory Management in Swift: The Strong, The Weak and The Unowned
If you started your iOS development career in Objective-C, especially pre ARC Objective-C, you're probably very familiar with the above-mentioned concepts. If you started with Swift, some of them...
Dejan Agostini
ProductsReviews
Code Coverage With codecov
I was poking around GitHub a while back and in the Firefox repo, I saw badge that led me to codecov. This is an awesome little tool for generating code coverage reports. It's simple to use and...
Dejan Agostini
BooksReviews
Book Review: The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide
A couple of months ago I read a book Soft Skills by John Sonmez. I loved it and as a result, I started updating my blog every Monday. That one book made things clear in my mind and I decided to...
Dejan Agostini
iOSTutorials
Unit tests: What, why, where and when?
Working on big projects with big code base composed mainly of "legacy code", developer's biggest fear is to introduce something new that might actually break something old. This fear freezes the...
Giuseppe Lanza
ProductsReviews
Continuous Integration: Travis CI
Travis is a cloud-based continuous integration server that works really well. It's quite well-known in the open source community because it's free for open source projects and it integrates perfectly...
Dejan Agostini
iOSTutorials
Push Notifications in Firebase
If you have an iOS app and you wanted to have push notifications, Firebase offers a simple way to integrate push notifications into your app. And best of all, it's free. In this post, we'll cover...
Dejan Agostini
iOSTutorials
Switching From REST to Firebase
Firebase is an online database. It's called 'Realtime Database'. But it's much, much more than that. In this post, I'll go through one of my apps and the process of converting it from my REST API to...
Dejan Agostini