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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Apple made Swift open-source in December 2015 and since then a new version of Swift getting released frequently. In these changing environment of Swift development, it’s essential to make a sure version of the Swift being used to build iOS apps are correct and as expected. We will cover how to automatically Read more…