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SwiftGen with Image & Color Asset Catalogs
You might remember back in 2015 when iOS 9 was introduced, and we were finally given a way to manage all of our assets in one place with Asset Catalogs. A few years later, support ...
Structuring SwiftUI Previews for API Calls
SwiftUI, together with Combine and Xcode 11+, provide a powerful toolset for quickly creating an app with a native UI. In Xcode 11+, the preview pane was introduced in order to provide live snapshots of ...
Android Development for iOS Developers
Android development has greatly improved since the early days. Maybe you tried it out when Android development was done in Eclipse, emulators were slow and buggy, and Java was the required language. Things have changed ...
Jul 9, 2019
Building an iOS Chat Feature Without Hacks
The Problem Trying to build a chat feature in iOS is often overwhelming and requires solving several difficult problems. Under a time crunch, we often find ourselves going with the first solution we find that ...
Exploring Swift Initializers
In this article, I’ll explore some of the gritty details of Swift initializers. Why take on such an exciting topic? Mainly because I’ve occasionally found myself confused by compilation errors when trying to create a subclass ...