I’ve been exploring more and more tooling around iOS ecosystem. One tool I really enjoy using those days is Github Action as a continuous integration for my projects. Today we’ll dive into tips and tweaks to make the most of it. Github Action is a docker environment that allows you to execute different steps around […]
When it comes to iOS development, everybody have their own favorite language and framework: Swift, Objective-C, SwiftUI, React-Native, Flutter and so on. Unlike most of my previous post, today we’re going to leverage some iOS tooling for cross platforms technology: fastlane and Flutter. Everybody agree to say Flutter is getting more and more popular in […]
Between banking and crypto apps, it’s quite often we interact with currency inputs on daily basis. If creating a localized UITextField can already be tricky in UIKit, I was wondering how hard it would be to do a similar one in SwiftUI. Let’s see today how to create a localized currency TextField in SwiftUI. This […]
Like many developers, I use open source tools on daily basis. Recently, I’ve got the chance to create one for other teammates and try to think about what I should consider before launching it. Today I share this checklist. License Before sharing anything, it’s quite important to know what would be the license for your […]
A big part of the developer journey is make sure our code behaves as expected. It’s best practice to setup tests that allow us to test quickly and often that nothing is broken. If unit testing is common practice to check the business logic, we can also extend it to cover some specific UI behaviors. […]
When we talk about modular app, we rarely mention how complex it can be over time and get out of hand. In most cases, importing frameworks into one another is a reasonable solution but we can do more. Let’s explore how with dependency inversion in Swift and how to create order into our components. A […]
For the past few years, I had the opportunity to mentor new joiners through different roles. In some aspects, I could see myself in them the same way I started years back: eager to prove themselves, jumping on the code and hacking around. I tried to think about what I learnt the hard way since […]
Recently, I’ve been more and more curious about web experience through mobile apps. Most of web browser apps look alike, I was wondering how could I recreate one with WebKit and SwiftUI. Let’s dive in. First Web View If you’re familiar with UIKit, since Apple deprecated UIWebView, there is only one way to support a […]
To move an existing iOS app codebase to SwiftUI can quickly become a challenge if we don’t scope the difficulties ahead. After covering the navigation and design layer last week, it’s time to dive deeper into the logic and handle the code migration for a database and the user preferences. If you’ve missed it, have […]
If SwiftUI is great for many things, migrating completely an existing app codebase to it can be really tricky. In a series of blog posts, I’ll share how to migrate an iOS app written in Swift with UIKit to SwiftUI. Today, let’s start with the navigation and the UI components with storyboards. Almost two years […]