iOS team workflow
A great write-up. Only correction is that CocoaPods does work with Swift, you just have to use the pre-release version. That’s what the iOS developers at Artsy did with Eidolon and Moya. The post iOS...
View ArticleThe Unwind Segue, Singletons in Swift, & beta testing iOS apps
this week’s iOS resources for my Thinkful.com students: The Unwind Segue UIViewController Class Reference tutorial: creating unwind segue More on Custom Picker Views...
View ArticleiOS Adaptive Layout tidbits: “Constrain to margin” in Xcode 6
I’ve been reading iOS 8 by Tutorials from the Ray Wenderlich Team (get the bundle, they go into an awesome level of detail). The first seven chapters are dedicated just to Adaptive Layout. They...
View ArticleiOS Design: learning Sketch
Sketch 3 by Bohemian coding is looking more and more like a promising replacement, nay, an upgrade, from Photoshop & Illustrator for our iOS design and asset creation needs. I thought I would...
View Articlepodcasts for iOS developers
I previously posted a list of iOS related podcasts I listen to during my wonderful 18 hour, 1400 mile commute between Maryland and Atlanta every week. Well, this is my last week in Atlanta, but I...
View Articlethoughts on ad blockers on mobile
Ads have gone overboard and there is a huge overhead from many of them especially with JavaScript running in the browser. Ad blocking improves performance and battery life, and therefore overall user...
View ArticleUpdating third party library dependancies using CocoaPods
Just a quick tip – if you’re using Cocoapods generally you want to avoid using just pod update. Instead you will want to individually update single pods at a time, e.g. pod update MyLibraryName This...
View ArticleRefactoring…
In almost all cases, I’m opposed to setting aside time for refactoring. In my view refactoring is not an activity you set aside time to do. Refactoring is something you do all the time in little...
View ArticleCase Study: Implementing Accessibility in a Health & Fitness Mobile App
How can you quickly determine the extent to which your SAAS is accessible? What percent of your customers are affected by the level of accessibility in your app? Accessibility is really about making...
View Article2016 Retrospective: It’s not about the Numbers
First off, wanted to thank Bryan Harris, for it’s his challenge that caused this post to come to fruition in the first place. Writing consistently has been my latest stumbling block, hopefully moving...
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