There is no doubt that Swift is an awesome language for developing native apps for Apple platforms like iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. However, being a new language, Swift lacks a lot of testing features like we see in other programming languages like Ruby. Mocking classes with protocols in Swift Read more…
Apple has released new command line tool xccov with Xcode 9.3 for inspecting the contents of Xcode code coverage reports. Unfortunately, there isn’t any web documentation yet, so we have to type man xccov in the terminal to get more information about this command line tool. This utility requires Xcode 9.3 and command-line Read more…
Fastlane tools automate entire iOS CI/CD pipelines and allow us to keep an iOS infrastructure as code. Fastlane is set of tools to automate almost everything from analyzing, building, testing, code signing and archiving iOS apps. However, if you look inside, it’s nothing but a Ruby layer on top of 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…
With Xcode 9, Apple announced the new build system at WWDC 2017. The new Xcode build system is written from scratch and purely in Swift. However, for some reason, it’s not enabled by default and available as the preview. Apple said that they will make it default in the later Read more…
iOS Code Signing Tutorials This is Part-1 of the iOS Code Signing tutorial series. This series covers fundamentals of the iOS code signing process. You can find all the posts in the series linked below iOS Code Signing: 1. Getting Started iOS Code Signing: 2. Certificate Signing Requests iOS Code Read more…
iOS Code Signing Tutorials This is the final part of the iOS Code Signing tutorial series. This series covers fundamentals of the iOS code signing process. You can find all the posts in the series linked below iOS Code Signing: 1. Getting Started iOS Code Signing: 2. Certificate Signing Requests Read more…
iOS Code Signing Tutorials This is Part-3 of the iOS Code Signing tutorial series. This series covers fundamentals of the iOS code signing process. You can find all the posts in the series linked below iOS Code Signing: 1. Getting Started iOS Code Signing: 2. Certificate Signing Requests iOS Code Read more…