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…
GitHub is rolling out the GitHub Actions features which allow developers to automate CI/CD workflow without using any other apps. The Github Actions can be considered as GitHub’s own CI/CD solution inbuilt within Github itself. The developers can create workflows using the GUI Editor or from the code. The GitHub Read more…
With Xcode 10, there are some big enhancements in the performance and developer productivity while building Swift projects. The build times are boring and might distract developers if builds are taking longer, Apple has put some efforts to optimize the build times especially for the Swift language. Basically, build time differ Read more…
There is a lot of excitement about Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC 2018) that kicks off next week on 4th June 2018. Unfortunately, we don’t have access to Apple’s roadmap so it’s always exciting to see what they are going to show us in the WWDC, apart from some 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…
Apple has released it’s own package manager called ‘Swift Package Manager‘ to share and distribute Swift packages. It’s good to know that Apple is working on the replacement of the current loved and hated package managers in the iOS development world those are CocoaPods and Carthage. In this article, we will Read more…
Swift Package Manager Apple has recently open-sourced Swift and announced it’s own package management tool called “Swift Package Manager“. Swift has became cross platform and can be built on both macOS and Linux so Swift Package Manager can be Dependency Manager Build Tool Test Tool IBM is currently working hard Read more…