The physics behind spring animations, crafting animations that feel natural, and avoiding common pitfalls with UISpringTimingParameters.

An easier way to work with associated values in notifications

Recently, I was hired by Freelancer as an iOS engineer to work on their core iOS application. As a quite young, fresh, progressive…

I would like to talk about the alternative to VIPER - Clean Swift. At first glance, Clean Swift is similar to VIPER.

Vision in iOS: Text detection and Tesseract recognition Let me tell you a story. Two weeks ago I joined the Stupid Hackathon in Oslo, where people came up with some stupid ideas and hacked together …

View controller containment has been an essential part of UIKit ever since the early days of the iPhone. This week, let's take a look at how we can build our own container view controllers, and how doing so can help us make parts of our UI code more modular…

In this short post we'll create a class that will handle the keyboard on a scrollview for us and we'll do it using interface builder objects.

How PSPDFKit is smart about choosing thumbnail sizes.

What is Functional Programming and how can we use it in Swift?
Search online for any definition of functional programming and you will find many different definitions, few of which are practically helpful. I have no claim to be an expert, but as a Swift enthusiast…

One of the major changes in Swift 4.2 is a change to the calling convention. But what exactly does that mean? Why is it important and why would you want to c...

@autoclosure attribute improves the performance, adds a convenience, but reduces the code readability

What happens when we combine Swift's conditional conformance with codability?

This post comes from this tweet shared by David Rodrigues (if you don't follow him on Twitter you should): If you have a closure that needs some internal state to be used and modified between executions of the closure you can declare your state as part of…

Nowadays there are a million apps that solve users’ needs, so it is becoming hard to create something new or be better than market…

While subclassing is not universally bad, avoiding it can in many situations leave us with simpler code that is easier to change and reuse. This week, let's take a look at a few different techniques that can help us write subclass-free view controllers, and…

Although Swift has no language features for defining atomic properties, their lack is compensated with the diversity of locking APIs available in Apple's frameworks. In this article let's take a look at different ways of designing atomic properties in Swift.

Here's another article of the serie "The easiest ". Previous one on Core Data here -> The easiest Core Data. Swift 5 will most likely include async/await, which will be a revolution for handling concurrency at language level. See Chris Lattner's proposal…

Daniel Tull is a freelance software developer in Exeter, UK.

Getting Started This article is a quick introduction to how to use the Metal, MetalKit, and Model I/O frameworks in Swift. If you know your way around UIKit or Cocoa development, you should be able…