iOS dev who makes iOS apps
Imagine: there is a cool new view modifier that makes your app way better... but you cannot use it because you still support some not so old iOS versions. Dropping the those iOS versions is not an option – there are too many customers. And one cannot...
In the old Xcode versions, you could just go to Preferences → Accounts and add your credentials there. Now, in place of accounts there is Apple Accounts menu entry. To solve this awful dilemma you just gotta go to Preferences → Source Control menu en...
Intro I have a game called Mathemando on itch.io. There player has to find the arithmetical formula to match the result. After I got the initial feedback, I decided to reimplement the difficulty, allow player to set it up. I implemented it (more on i...
Recently I got a problem with 3rd party libraries. My app requires two libraries. Let's call them Cat and CatFood. Library Cat requires library CatFood. While it all works fine on the device, when running on simulator I get a crash, the infamous dyld...
Intro In the first article, we have covered requesting weather for some arbitrary location. Now it's time to implement the second part of the take-home assignment, namely retrieving a new location every ten seconds. In this article, we will develop f...
Intro What is the main task of the iOS developer? Correct, doing the tech challenges for the new jobs! I was interviewing candidates for the iOS developer position. A part of our interviewing routine was the take-home code assignment. Initially, I th...
In this article, I'll show how to add logs for iOS app without rebuilding. If you want to skip to the main part just jump to the "Adding logs without rebuild" section. Short intro There are three main ways to find bugs in the app: debugging by guessi...
Part 1. The problem I am an iOS developer. And I love cats tests. Sometimes they love me back but recently with Swift Concurrency coming into my life, our relations went downhill. The project is in limbo between the past and the future. Meaning we do...
I've got an old EPUB that was not displayed properly on my device. The lines of some paragraphs were going over the edge of the screen and to read them I had to copy-paste the text in a separate editor. Not the best UX I've seen. So I decided to fix ...