Category: Swift

Process

Refactoring iOS Apps – A Pragmatic Guide

While your app and development teams grow larger, the codebase is inevitably going to scream for refactoring – that is, improvements in the design of the existing code. There are no silver bullets to refactoring, but iOS apps tend to get into the same pitfalls. Luckily, the common cases of refactoring can be mitigated by being in line with the following set of practices on improving and maintaining code while speeding up development.

DevOps

Architecting a Logging Service for iOS Apps

Understanding how your apps behave in production is a fundamental part of our jobs as iOS engineers. We need to gather log events in order to investigate and reproduce issues that customers run into. Here’s how you create a log service with a clean architecture that’s modular and easily extensible.

DevOps

Architecting an Analytics Service for iOS Apps

Monitoring the behavior of your app’s users is critical to the success of your app. If the only feedback you get from your users are App Store review, now is the right time to start using analytics. We’ll go over how you create an analytics service that’s modular and easily extensible using a clean iOS architecture.

DevOps

Architecting a Feature Toggle Service for iOS Apps

Feature toggling is essential for keeping your apps flexible in production. Sometimes you want to try ideas fast to see if they stick. Maybe you want to split test two ideas and see what performs the best. Whatever the case may be, the feature toggling service should be highly scalable and not be a bottleneck in your workflow. Here’s how you create a feature toggling service with a clean iOS architecture.

Automation

The Ten Commandments of iOS Development

Here’s a set of key principles to guide you to do iOS development according to best practices. They are all about the bigger picture of iOS development, including processes and architecture decisions – not simply language specific challenges.

Swift

Manage Your iOS Resources Type-Safely with R.swift

A common frustration with the iOS platform is that resources are accessed using magic strings. In practice, this means you’ll find out if an image, icon, localized string etc. exists at runtime. Either by seeing what you were hoping for or getting a hard crash. Let’s fix this by introducing your new best friend – R.swift.

Automation

Automate Screenshots for App Store Using Fastlane

Save yourself from spending hours on screenshots for the App Store. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how you automate the process of taking screenshots for all supported screen sizes and languages.

Swift

Learn RxSwift From This Production App

QCards is an app built with RxSwift for creating smarter cue cards. Take a look through the source code as it’s ultimately the fastest way to learn new things from a practical perspective.

Swift

Start Your RxSwift Journey in Less Than 10 Minutes

RxSwift is well known for having a steep learning curve. But taking the time to learn it can easily be the next significant leap in your development abilities. We’ll cover the basic concepts of the library to quickly get you up to speed.