Apple Apple starts rejecting apps with “hot code push” features This thread from Apple's Developer Forums is making some waves on the internets today. Apparently, they're now rejecting apps that include code that can modify your app after it's released to the store.
Swift Bringing piping syntax from Elixir to Swift I've been writing Elixir for my main backend needs for the past few months and I've really liked it — specially its syntax. In fact, I've gotten so into its syntax that I've often
Swift Elixir's syntax is awesome: Railway development in Elixir using the with statement I've been loving Elixir so far. What I like the most is its syntax. So much that lately I've been finding myself trying to use Elixir's syntax while coding Swift. This post is
Swift #selector One of my favourite changes in Swift 2.2 is that Objective-C selectors now are first class citizens in the Swift ecosystem. So long to error-prone selector names as Strings. Swift 2.2
Swift How I deal with JSON in Swift Edit: I've updated this post to Swift 3's syntax. The original post with Swift 2.X syntax can be found here. It seems that the new hot thing these days is open sourcing
Swift Swift blog: Keeping up with the Swift mailing lists It can be a pain. Specially if you're subscribed to all of them. Thankfully, there's an app for that. 🙄 Hirundo is a dedicated RSS reader for the Swift mailing lists. Read comfortably, keep
Swift Swift blog: Watching the language evolve, pt. 2 Of course, if you want to be absolutely on top of everything that's going on with Swift (now open source), head over to the Swift.org's Mailing List section and subscribe to the
Swift Swift blog: Watching the language evolve Now that Swift is open source, we have a lot of visibility inside the project. That includes new features and discussions that can help us be prepared for new features or important changes
Swift Swift blog: Swift is now open source! Today Apple surprised us by finally making Swift an open source project. At Swift.org you can find all the information about it. 4 main projects are being made public: Compiler and Standard
Swift Swift blog: Protocols are not always the way to go I keep forcing myself to use protocols more and more when coding Swift. Today's issue came from the following scenario: I have a (static) table view with 4 prototype cells defined on Interface
Swift Swift blog: Why is my Hashable implementation crashing on an iPhone 4s? Today I found what I thought of as a bug that had me scratching my head for about an hour. My app ran just perfectly on my iPhone 6S Plus. However, when I
Swift Swift blog: Wrangling protocols The app I'm working on has a set of interesting requirements on the data layer. Let's try to break it down: I have a set of data that can be represented on 2
Swift Tiny Networking: Building Micro-Libraries in Swift [Video] Chris Eidhof from objc.io is back at it, now with a cool video on how he built a tiny networking micro-library using functional programming using Swift. (I've embedded the video right here,
Swift › Building NSNotificationCenter from scratch using Swift Excellent Friday Q&A post from Mike Ash. This guy rocks.
Swift Swift app size I've been writing Swift for the most part of the past 6 months. Mostly playing with it, nothing serious. But today, I submitted my first Swift app to iTunes Connect (currently in beta
Swift How to run networking code on Swift Playgrounds I'm sure most of you know this by now. If you're mocking your network calls using Swift on a Playground, it is important to tell the Playground that it can run code asynchronously.
Must-read › Functional View Controllers - Wrapping View Controllers in a Functional Way Chris Eidhof: When working with UIKit, view controllers are the opposite of isolated: they are connected to everything. The view controller often pulls network or database data, populates and interacts with views, and
Swift › Numbers and Swift Dalton Cherry at vluxe.io: Swift favors speed and safety by reducing the number of errors that can be made. Objective-C on the other hand was designed to be simple. Swift was designed