Argues for deprecating UITableView in favor of the more flexible UICollectionView, citing Apple's internal work on table-like collection view layouts.
Lyft engineers detail their approach to making the iOS app accessible, focusing on VoiceOver integration and UI improvements.
A guide to writing maintainable tests for iOS apps, covering the Red-Green-Refactor cycle and the Arrange-Act-Assert pattern.
Explores building a Swift library for real-time, live updates to iOS app UI and themes without recompilation, using Traits and runtime features.
Introducing Sourcery, a meta-programming tool for Swift that automates code generation to reduce repetition and improve safety.
Explores how to use Swift's addition operator overloading for expressive code, covering numbers, strings, arrays, and ranges.
A developer reflects on attending Swift Summit SF 2016, discussing insights from the conference and the value of reading Swift's open-source standard library code.
A guide explaining when and how to use the 'self' keyword in Swift programming, covering clarity, brevity, and mandatory vs. optional usage.
A developer explains the challenges of using PHLivePhotoView with Auto Layout and the solution to fix ambiguous content size issues.
Swift programming guide on initializing arrays and dictionaries using literals and shorthand syntax for cleaner code.
Explains the use of the underscore (_) keyword in Swift for omitting argument labels and ignoring tuple components to reduce code verbosity.
A technical guide exploring Swift's Unicode-compliant string handling, focusing on CharacterView and encoding-specific views for developers.
A guide to migrating Swift 2.3 code to Swift 3.0, focusing on replacing C-style for-loops and operators with modern Swift alternatives.
A developer announces and shares thoughts on preparing for their first major conference talks at NSSpain and FrenchKit, focusing on Swift and live-coding challenges.
Explores enhancing Swift MVVM architecture using Protocol-Oriented Programming and Objective-C runtime for better view-model binding and reusability.
A guide to manually integrating Google Firebase into an iOS project without using CocoaPods, covering framework setup and linking in Xcode.
Explains the difference between implicitly unwrapped and force unwrapped optionals in Swift, highlighting their dangers and appropriate use cases.
A Swift developer explains how wrapping primitive types like Int in structs improves type safety and eliminates runtime bugs in a toy train control app.
A guide to disabling NSLog in iOS/macOS apps to reduce console noise from third-party libraries, with code examples in Swift and Objective-C.
Explains the dangers of force unwrapping Swift optionals (!) and why it should be avoided, promoting safer alternatives like optional binding.
