Recently, JSON has become most widely used format to transfer data all over the internet. In the world of iOS development, it’s very common for the developer to work with JSON data in Swift and use it for building iOS apps. There are some cool libraries like SwiftyJSON already available to work with JSON data in Swift Read more…
Apple has released the stable version of Xcode 9 recently with loads of new features. The most of the iOS developers are saying Xcode 9 is the best release so far as it has great new features that iOS Developers always wanted. You can read more about the Xcode 9 features Read more…
There is hardly any iOS project that doesn’t have any dependency. Almost every project has to manage some sort of dependencies either internal or third party. Every major programming language has their own dependency management system. Swift has various options to manage the dependencies. Apple is working on its own Read more…
Since Apple launched SF Mono Font at WWDC 2016, I fall in love with this amazing font. I turned my whole blog website to use SF Mono font but it involved a bit of work downloading the font and hosting it on the server and updating CSS to use it. However, you Read more…
The process of Continuous Integration performs various activities like analysing, building, testing and deploying iOS apps. It would be a great idea to break down each build tasks into various stages and execute them independently. This process is also called Build Pipeline Or Deployment Pipeline. As an iOS developer, you Read more…
Continuous Delivery enables frequent releases of new features as soon they are ready and approved by product owners. The continuous Delivery pipeline should be able to analyse, build, test, archive and deploy iOS apps to iTunes Connect. In the previous post, we have seen how to setup basic pipeline with Fastlane tools. Read more…
Swift is getting popular programming language for developing iOS apps these days. Being a type safe language, it’s important to focus on code styling and conventions of the Swift code. SwiftLint is an open source tool to enforce Swift style and convention. SwiftLint allows us to enforce code style rules Read more…
The speed of an iOS app is a key to success in the current competitive market. User hates slow running and unresponsive apps so it became very important to check the performance of an iOS app before it goes to the end users. Apple announced performance testing support to XCTest framework at WWDC Read more…
The major obstacles to continuous delivery are the lack confidence in the release candidate and fear of critical bugs in the production. While releasing an iOS app, there is always fear and risk of bugs in the production. No matter how much time spent on testing in the pre-production environment. It’s Read more…
At WWDC 2017, there was an amazing talk on engineering for testability which focuses on the importance of quality of test code along with app code. The talk introduced various way we can improve testability of apps by writing great test code. The most important bit was a second part where Read more…