Structured Concurrency With Task Groups in Swift Jul 7, 2021 Learn about executing a dynamic amount of concurrency in Swift using Task Groups. ...
Structured Concurrency in Swift: Using async let Jun 30, 2021 Get started using structured concurrency in Swift using async let tasks. ...
Converting closure-based code into async/await in Swift Jun 23, 2021 Learn about checked continuations and converting closure and delegate-based code into async/await in Swift. ...
Understanding async/await in Swift Jun 16, 2021 Learn about Swift's async/await APIs and how to use them, complete with working examples. ...
Modern Concurrency in Swift: Introduction Jun 16, 2021 Learn about the modern concurrency features intorduced in Swift 5.5, at Apple's WWDC2021. ...
Strategies For Asking Users to Rate Your App Jun 2, 2021 Having our apps have good reviews is generally a good thing. After all, many users look into how many stars an app has before deciding on downloading it. Apps with a general poor rating may not get many downloads (unless they are “essential” apps of any kind, such as companion app to another service). We all as developers have experienced that users are quick to give a one-star review when something doesn’t work right, but they are never inclined to rate 5 stars when they are satisfied with an app. ...
My WWDC 2021 Wishlist May 26, 2021 WWDC is undoubtly my favorite event of the year, and it has been for the past 11 years. This week I’m taking a break from writing technical articles and I want to talk about my personal wishlist, both for features and developers tools. Writing Actual ViewControllers for the Settings App The iOS Settings.app was supposed to be a place where you as a user, have a centralized place to configure all your settings for all your apps. ...
Quick Tip: Notifying Users of App Updates - For Free May 19, 2021 Learn how to keep more of your users updated with free hosting and app version checking. ...
Integrating FaceID/TouchID with SwiftUI May 12, 2021 Learn the right way to implement FaceID or TouchID with your iOS app using SwiftUI and MVVM. ...
The NSDateInterval Object May 5, 2021 Somehow, this shiny new object, which was actually introduced in iOS 10, flew past my radar. Today I want to take a few minutes to talk about the NSDateInterval object. This object allows us to quickly calculate the time interval (represented as a NSTimeInterval) between dates, it allows us to check if two dates overlap, and it allows us to check if a given date is within a certain interval. ...