WWDC23 notes June 9, 2023
WWDC23 is over and as previous year I'm sharing my unedited notes from all the sessions I've watched.This year has been quite entertaining as the main focus has been on...
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Extend a footer outside the Safe Area with SwiftUI September 30, 2022
The safe area is one of the most relevant changes in the UI paradigm of iOS in the recent years. Let's learn how to implement a footer with CTA that respects the safe areas but with a background that extends to the edge.
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iOS App Architecture in 2022 December 15, 2021
Since we're about to start a new year, I thought it would be good to write about what I think it's the best approach for building iOS apps nowadays.For the...
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Observe actions in The Composable Architecture December 3, 2021
One of the beautiful things about Pointfree's Composable Architecture is how you can start using it on a smaller part of your app. It makes it very easy to improve...
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Home Screen Quick Actions with the Composable Architecture July 5, 2020
iOS offers the ability for applications to add quick actions to the home screen icons. Implementing this feature often requires things that are not easy to access in most common...
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WWDC 2020 wishes June 1, 2020
It's that time of the year again! WWDC 2020 is around the corner. As every year around this time I start thinking about my wishes for this version of WWDC...
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Debugging superpowers with FLEX April 18, 2020
I’ve been using FLEX for years and I just realised the little I’ve done to promote this great tool among the iOS community. So here is my attempt at giving...
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Running Danger on GitHub Actions March 27, 2020
In the past I've written about the setup I typically use with Danger. It worked quite well given the limitations but there was always the annoying restriction that to update...
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Tips to successfully remove code and assets August 19, 2019
This week I removed a big chunk of code from our app, an entire section/feature. I've been working on this codebase for years and I had the opportunity to do...
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WWDC'19 marks the start of a new era June 8, 2019
WWDC '19 is over, and what a week! Let me start by saying that this is probably the best WWDC ever. We have seen the announcement of game changing technologies...
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WWDC 2019 wishes May 28, 2019
Is that time of the year again 🎉 WWDC '19 is happening next week and as usual we all have our expectations, wishes and predictions.I have to admit that this...
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Must watch NSSpain 2018 talks October 4, 2018
Everyone knows that NSSpain is one of my favourite conferences but sadly this year I haven't been able to assist. Luckily for me the recordings are already up so I...
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Swift 4.2 CaseIterable enums and UISegmentedControl, a practical example August 18, 2018
On 2014 I wrote a post about how to drive a UISegmentedControl with the new powerful Swift enums. Back then the major complain was that to get all the cases...
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WWDC 18 session notes June 10, 2018
As every year after WWDC is time to sit down and watch the videos of the sessions! I wrote last year about How I watch the WWDC videos and this...
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HealthKit privacy radar January 11, 2018
Today I had to create a new radar for Apple in relation to HealthKit privacy descriptions.When you integrate HealthKit into your App you need to add some privacy descriptions in...
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Loading translations with NSLocalizedString dynamically at runtime June 24, 2017
One of the best things about developing for iOS is having the power of the amazing frameworks that the Apple platforms have. Foundation is easily one of the best platform...
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UIViewController extension for keyboard avoidance, and the missing features of Swift June 10, 2016
Being able to conform to a protocol and automatically have the implementation that you need is really a game changer. Having trait like functionality is one of the most interesting...
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Release of Survive! The Game of Life January 17, 2016
A couple of months ago I wrote a small prototype of the well known Conway's Game of Life. This kind of simulation has always fascinated me. Giving a set of...
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Designers should be dynamic August 5, 2015
I’ve been lucky to have the opportunity to work in a bunch of different projects in my years as a developer. In all those projects I also had the opportunity...
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How I watch the WWDC videos June 30, 2015
Yesterday I saw this tweet from Diego talking about how he watches WWDC videos:Por culpa de algunos de vosotros, he vuelto a perpetrar un post en mi blog: "CĂłmo ver los...
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First impressions on WWDC 2015 June 9, 2015
Every year, after the WWDC I usually record a podcast episode talking about my feelings of the keynote. This year I've been keeping a list of the things that I...
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Mike Stern on Hamburger Menus October 20, 2014
Mike is an Apple User Experience Evangelist that talked (here is the transcript of the talk) about the hamburger menu design pattern. I share the same opinion about that and...
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Cocoapods haters September 29, 2014
Good words of Orta on Cocoapods haters. Don't like sharing code? Great Telling other people they're idiots for doing so? Not great. Telling people they're idiots for using other...
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Autolayout explained to non developers September 3, 2014
Good article in iMoore about the future of the iOS UIs, but the best part is how it explains autolayout to non developers. Easy. If you imagine the "guides" in...
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AutoLayout and Table View Performance August 20, 2014
Jared has writed another amazing post about Autolayout. AutoLayout Myths, Table View Performance, and Side-by-Side iPad App Multi-tasking. After reading it I think that it's not autolayout job to solve...
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Ship your app weekly August 16, 2014
Shipping frequently helps prevent something I call the “ivory tower syndrome.” I'm a perfectionist. I can spend a lot of time perfecting things that are good enough. A tight...
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Thinking In Terms Of iOS 8 Size Classes by Justin Williams August 8, 2014
Since I use and recommend Interface Builder, my work load is significantly less than those that are still living by the “write everything in code” mantra. If you find...
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On Core Data, JSON, libraries... July 15, 2014
After watching a hangout talking about Core Data, JSON an some open source librearies I thought that it will be good to publish a blog post with some personal notes...
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There is no later for your customers July 4, 2014
There is no later for your customers. The only thing that matters is what they’re using right now. They don’t give a shit about your roadmap, your brilliant feature...
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Imagining developing for a split-screen iPad – roopc.net May 30, 2014
I don't think that Apple will introduce an split mode in iOS 8, but this article talks about some changes in the Apps development that we should take into account...
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Don't touch the spinner on your libraries May 28, 2014
A very good advice and it's not very expanded in the community. Don’t interfere with the spinner in the status bar. Because the way you turn it on and off...
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How long does it take to make apps nowadays | Kent Nguyen April 9, 2014
In case you are expecting one developer for everything then please stop reading this and go back to your day job instead. Unicorns do exist in some forms but you...