A software engineer reflects on career choices, from mobile development to engineering management, and introduces a framework for balancing market trends, core skills, and personal happiness.
A 3-part video tutorial series on building UICollectionViews from scratch in Swift, covering layout, data sources, self-sizing cells, and batch updates.
Final part of a series on building a Swift HTTP framework, discussing abstraction layers and integrating generics like Codable.
A developer recounts accidentally creating a spying app as a teenager while trying to solve the iPhone's 1000-SMS limit, exploring early mobile hacking.
A guide to the Photo Widget app, covering installation, troubleshooting, and technical limitations on Apple platforms.
Analyzes iOS 14's conflicting features: Sleep Mode/Wind Down aid productivity, while widgets pose new distraction risks.
Analyzes SwiftUI's readiness for production, examining Apple's Fruta sample app and common crash issues in iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur.
A technical guide on creating a new calendar programmatically using Apple's EventKit framework in Swift, focusing on handling EKSource.
A tutorial on integrating Diffable Data Sources with Core Data in iOS apps to simplify UITableView and UICollectionView updates.
A developer details the technical challenges of converting the ChibiStudio avatar creation canvas into a 10MB iOS 14 App Clip, focusing on asset size reduction.
Explores Apple's improved OSLog framework in iOS 14/15, covering the new Swift Logger API, OSLogStore functionality, and best practices for efficient logging.
Explains why pre-flight network checks are flawed in iOS and recommends using Apple's Adaptable Connectivity APIs for better reliability.
A developer shares their approach to setting up a Core Data stack outside of AppDelegate, including code for a singleton Database class.
A tutorial on implementing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in iOS apps using Apple's native Vision framework, without third-party libraries.
A technical guide on using EventKit and EKReminder to programmatically create iOS reminders with alarms and recurrences.
A technical overview of the new UIColorWell control in iOS 14, covering its basic usage and integration without Interface Builder.
A technical guide on implementing CloudKit query subscriptions for silent push notifications in iOS/tvOS apps.
A tutorial on using iOS 14's PHPickerViewController to let users select photos and videos from their library without requiring permissions.
A brief guide on using the new UIColorPickerViewController introduced in iOS 14 for color selection in apps.
A tutorial on using iOS EventKit framework to programmatically save events to a user's calendar from within an app.
