You know those fancy videos demoing the app that you can see on the App Store. Well, you can easily create App Store videos with Trailer App. This is a nice little app that will enable you to create those videos literally in minutes. In this short article we’ll go… Read more »
Privacy is very important today and we have a couple of options to encrypt our users’ data on iOS. We already have common crypto available on iOS but recently I came across a much simpler library that you can use. In this short article we’ll go over the basics of… Read more »
Whether you’re working on an old codebase or a three-month old project, you most likely found yourself in a situation where you found the codebase confusing and hard to follow. You probably found code smells, duplications and massive classes. You knew you had to refactor it. There’s one book that… Read more »
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 »
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 »
It’s been a while since I wrote a book review, mainly because there was a lot of interesting things to write about and book reviews are generally boring 🙂 But this one book deserves to be mentioned. Cracking the Coding Interview is one of my favourite books. It’s a book… Read more »
Flawless App is an app built with a specific purpose in mind… To help you make the design of your app pixel perfect. In this short review we’ll go over the features of Flawless App and see what it can do for you. Designers vs. Developers Most developers are a… Read more »
We all know how useful a simple print statement can be while you’re developing an app. In this quick article we’ll quickly go over a logging framework that takes your print statements to the next level. We’ll be talking about CocoaLumberjack. A Bit of Info You use print statements in… Read more »
Years ago I read a great book about design patterns: Head First Design Patterns. The book is pretty good and definitely deserves a few words. I’ll keep this article short and sweet. I could go into details about what design patterns are, but I’ll leave the reading to you 🙂… Read more »
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 follow some of the advice John was giving. So… Read more »