iOS applications don’t go to iTunes Connect easily, it takes blood, sweat and tears of engineers with them. It involves various complex task before app hits iTunes Connect. Surely, every iOS engineer must have felt that pain at least once in the lifetime. There are some underlying tools and technologies that Apple Read more…
Apple takes accessibility very seriously for all their platforms to make sure all the iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS apps are usable for everyone including the people having disabilities. Unfortunately, every human being is not normal, some people have disabilities like vision Impairment, deafness, mental health conditions or physical disabilities. However, technology Read more…
Believe it or not, setting up and managing DevOps tooling is a brainfucking activity. It’s true for both web and mobile application development. It requires the deep understanding of server and networking technologies, automation with complex scripting, cloud technologies and 24 x 7 Monitoring support. This became a cause for a Read more…
Fastlane has just released with Swift support from version 2.69.0 onwards which means iOS developers no longer have to write Ruby code to configure Fastlane in iOS or macOS projects. Fastlane is one of the great tools to automate iOS deployments, releases and all sort of common iOS development tasks Read more…
One of the complaints about Xcode Server is it’s not scalable to be used as large-scale or enterprise level. However, if you have skills to understand and manage an infrastructure for iOS deployment then scalability can be easily achieved for small, medium or large iOS teams using the mixture of iOS Read more…
Xcode comes up with some cool tools that can be used to detect some crazy bugs that are hard to catch with manual or functional automated testing. The memory and threading related issues are hard to find unless they made the impact on the application. In my previous post on Read more…
Every iOS application requires the data to be displayed in the app. Unfortunately, we can’t put all the data inside our iOS app. The iOS developers have to make the network requests to get this data from internet and use it in the apps. Apple has provided various libraries and Read more…
An iOS app needs the backend services for performing the various task like storing data in the database, hosting of files, caching data, monitoring etc. Firebase is a cloud-based service that provides most of the server side things for our iOS apps so that we don’t have to manage the infrastructure Read more…
DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices enable continuous builds deployed to our internal or beta testing platform. It’s essential to manage the version and build numbers of iOS apps. As a best DevOps practice, iOS team should be frequently releasing new version i.e marketing version to AppStore as well as should be making Read more…
Core Data is one of the most popular frameworks provided by Apple for iOS and macOS apps. Core data is used to manage the model layer object in our application. You can treat Core Data as a framework to save, track, modify and filter the data within iOS apps, however, Core Data Read more…