Apple made Swift open-source in December 2015 and since then a new version of Swift getting released frequently. In these changing environment of Swift development, it’s essential to make a sure version of the Swift being used to build iOS apps are correct and as expected. We will cover how to automatically check the version of Swift using Fastlane plugin I wrote Read more…
The deployment of an iOS app to iTunes Connect involves various things and it’s time-consuming and fragile activity. It’s very common practice for iOS developers use Xcode to build, test, archive and upload the app to iTunes Connect. Fortunately, Apple has command line tools to do all these things and one of the most popular utility is xcodebuild. There is a Read more…
While developing iOS apps, simulators are the best friends of developers. It’s the quick and easy way to test app while development as we can interact with iOS simulators using GUI. Apple’s documentation on getting started in the simulator is awesome and we can learn almost everything about controlling simulators from using graphical user interface. Although simulators are easy to use Read more…
Apple has released it’s own package manager called ‘Swift Package Manager‘ to share and distribute Swift packages. It’s a good idea to add free Continuous Integration to our open-source Swift Packages so that we made sure nothing is broken with code changes. Fortunately, TravisCI gives you free services for the all open-source project on Github. In this short post, we will Read more…
Recently, I have spoken at iOSConBytes meetup, SkillsMatter, London on Full Stack BDD inside Xcode with use of XCFit framework. This talk covered live demo of following things Building a sample iOS app using Protocol Oriented BDD approach Mapping BDD Scenarios with Swift Setting up BDD target with XCFit Protocol Oriented BDD Xcode Template Writing Protocols for requirements Writing Step Definitions using Swift Extensions Read more…
Swift is truly protocol-oriented language. Since introduced in WWDC 2014 and open sourced in December 2015, it become one of the popular language for developing iOS application. You can watch this WWDC video to know about protocol oriented programming with Swift. In the recent days, protocol-oriented approach is definitely dominated the object oriented approach at least for Swift. It means we have Read more…
Xcode comes with lot of command line tools which you can find at path
|
1 2 3 |
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin |
each one has a specific purpose but some of them are very important in day to day role of iOS Developers. Most iOS Developers like to do everything from GUI either Xcode or using third party GUI tools but skilled and experienced developer uses command Read more…
At WWDC 2016, there was an awesome talk on ‘Advance Testing and Continuous Integration‘ which mentioned lot of new features in the XCTest Framework, Xcode-Sever and xcodebuild command line tool. We can use those features to speed up the iOS Continuous Integration process. Current iOS CI Limitation Before Xcode 8, we have to build and compile and application before running Read more…
It’s very common to find an iOS applications in different languages and supporting different countries. The brands needs to intruduce their business to the locals in the language that is truly local and that’s the way to connect and create value out of the iOS app. It’s essential to develop and test an iOS app for different countries and locales. Read more…
Apple has released new Xcode 8.3 beta 2 with new Swift 3.1 snapshot which is available to download from Apple developer account. There are lot of new things in Xcode 8.3 beta 2, you can read release note if you have Apple developer account. There is a handy class added to the XCTest framework to enable interaction with Siri with XCUI Test which is Read more…
