CocoaPods has been magical dependency managers for iOS developer so far. Very few developers understand what happens under the hood when they run pod install command. However, CocoaPods has been proved to be painless dependency manager in the iOS ecosystem. Personally, I had love/hate relationship with CocoaPods so I wrote a blog Read more…
Apple released Xcode New Build System with Xcode 9 in the preview mode. It wasn’t activated by default at that time. With Xcode 10, new build system activated by default, by adopting the new build system you might have faced some of the issues in your existing iOS projects. Apple is Read more…
Saffron Apple is excited to announce the trailer of our book on iOS DevOps which cover almost everything to deliver the quality app to AppStore. This book will be the product of Saffron Apple which we call it as XCBook. This book is aimed to solve the challenges of iOS development Read more…
Apple may not like the fact that iOS developers adding the third-party dependencies to the iOS projects. Apple’s core technologies have provided enough frameworks and tools with healthy documentation that developers can use to build and distribute iOS apps. This might be the reason the Apple didn’t have any official package Read more…
An every mature and modern programming languages come with an official solution for code distribution to share and reuse code that has been already written. The mechanism to share, distribute and re-use the code is usually handled by the package manager. The examples of popular package managers are RubyGems for Ruby, Composer for PHP, NPM for Read more…
Today, the 24th Feb marks 25th birthday of Ruby programming language since it named by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto in Japan. Since released in 1993, it becomes most dynamic, easy to learn and most fashionable programming language. In the world of iOS development, Ruby has been used almost everywhere from package management, automating releases Read more…
Dependency/Package Manager Most modern languages come with an official solution for code distribution. In today’s world of modern mobile development, it is essential to re-use the code already written by developers. Code reuse can be achieved by creating and distributing the packages from central repository. A package manager is a tool that Read more…