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Handling routes from an API in a type-safe way with Swift

In this post, I explain how to extend Swift to make our own type-safe way of handling data coming from an API.

Becoming a Better iOS Developer Through Tooling: My AltConf 2017 talk

The fine folks at Realm have now uploaded the remaining videos from AltConf 2017 — including the presentation that I gave there. You can watch it a Realm Academy, here. Presenting in the US

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.

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

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

#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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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,

› Building NSNotificationCenter from scratch using Swift

Excellent Friday Q&A post from Mike Ash. This guy rocks.

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

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.

› 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

› 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