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  1. Waiting for File Write Completion on iOS

    It’s straight forward to watch a directory for file writes, but how can you be alerted when a file has finished being written?

    Adam Sharp and Sid Raval
    January 24, 2019
    • iOS
    • Swift
    • TIL
  2. Let's Set Up Your iOS Environments

    A deep dive into configurations.

    Patrick Montalto
    October 30, 2018
    • iOS
    • Swift
    • Xcode
  3. Swift Imports

    How to be a Swift importer (and possibly exporter).

    Patrick Montalto
    October 11, 2017
    • Swift
    • iOS
  4. A Simple Approach to Thread-Safe Networking in iOS Apps

    Concurrent programming is hard! But by taking advantage of a lesser-known aspect of its design, we can avoid some common pitfalls.

    Adam Sharp
    September 21, 2017
    • Concurrency
    • Parallelism
    • URLSession
    • Networking
    • Swift
    • iOS
  5. Swift Talk: Comparing RxSwift and ReactiveSwift

    Many types make light work.

    Adam Sharp
    February 2, 2017
    • RxSwift
    • RxCocoa
    • ReactiveSwift
    • ReactiveCocoa
    • Swift
    • Reactive Programming
    • Frp
    • iOS
  6. Introducing Perform: Easy dependency injection for storyboard segues

    How to use Perform to simplify your code and make Dependency Injection great again.

    Adam Sharp
    September 13, 2016
    • iOS
    • Swift
    • Perform
    • Open Source
    • News
  7. Introducing Swish 1.0: Protocol Based Networking for iOS

    Swish, a protocol based networking library, aims to make your iOS application’s network layer unobtrusive and easy to test.

    Sid Raval
    June 2, 2016
    • iOS
    • Swish
    • Argo
    • Swift
    • News
    • Open Source
  8. Building iOS Interfaces: Subclassing Views

    The custom button we previously implemented looks all good and dandy, but we can’t possibly be expected to repeat that process for each additional button. Enter subclassing.

    Reda Lemeden
    April 28, 2016
    • iOS
    • Design
    • Mobile
    • Swift
  9. Building iOS Interfaces: A Custom Button

    It’s about time to apply what we’ve learnt so far to implement a custom button and introduce some new concepts along the way.

    Reda Lemeden
    March 3, 2016
    • iOS
    • Design
    • Mobile
    • Swift
  10. Building iOS Interfaces: Views

    Views are the cornerstone of iOS app interfaces. Let’s take a look at what they are and how they work.

    Reda Lemeden
    February 3, 2016
    • iOS
    • Design
    • Mobile
    • Swift
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