A world of coding đź’», by Alejandro Martinez
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...