Seal it off! — Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging This article has been developed using Xcode 14.2, and Swift 5.7.2 Prerequisites: You will be expected to be aware of how to make a Single View Application Some knowledge of Data Races in programming would be useful Keywords and Terminology: NSLock: A synchronization method to control…

Here Are My Tips — GitHub Copilot is a fun AI tool, albeit one that might see us all out of jobs as iOS developers in due course. I’ve been using the tool for a hot minute, and have got a few tips that can help you get the most out of it. Let us…

Optimising — Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging This article has been developed using Xcode 14.2, and Swift 5.7.2 Prerequisites: You will be expected to be aware of how to make a Single View Application Some familiarity with GCD and concurrency would be useful for the reader Keywords and Terminology: Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)…

Difference and similarities — Even in small companies you can have the same constituent parts for the Agile process. What would be beneficial from one organisation to another? The roles in the Agile process Customer The user is the customer in mind. If you are working in a code shop, there can be some confusion between the end customer and…

A pull request can just be the start… — A code review is a subjective analysis of work completed. The purpose of a code review is to ensure that coding standard and quality is upheld when a Pull Request (PR) is merged into a release or master branch. This seems (other than that key word, subjective) like a simple…

App Store — So how can I get this wonderful App onto the Apple App store? I’m going to of course ask ChatGPT. This is a follow-up to two previous articles Part 1 Part 2

Enums for Raw types — Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging RawRepresentable is a protocol from the Swift standard library. We might be aware of this in that conformance is autosynthesized — but are we able to dive deeper? This article is designed to help us do just that. Prerequisites: Be able to produce…

Wait for this! — Ever since Swift 5.5 we have had access to fun concurrency features in Swift. I think there is a crucial part of this, and it’s Swift’s async/await syntax. …

Reach for quality! — My favourite way of persisting data is with Core Data. It’s an integrated Apple Framework — so don’t worry about your third-party stuff here. I like to write a Core Data Manager that is testable and can even be mocked. However, where are the performance improvements that can make your…