How to create custom SF Symbols with Sketch
Since Apple introduced SF Symbols in 2019, many product designers for iOS, including myself, have been asking themselves when it will
Xcode
Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern
Explaining the Dependency Injection pattern, by contrasting it with Service Locator. The choice between them is less important than the principle of separating configuration from use.
Resolver for iOS Dependency Injection: Getting Started
Learn how to use Resolver to implement dependency injection in your SwiftUI iOS apps to achieve easily readable and maintainable codebases.
Converting closure-based code into async/await in Swift
Learn about checked continuations and converting closure and delegate-based code into async/await in Swift.
Redis and Vapor With Server-Side Swift: Getting Started
Learn how to use the in-memory data store, Redis, and Vapor to cache objects by saving them in JSON, then configuring them to expire after a set time.
Understanding Data Flow in SwiftUI
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how data flow in SwiftUI helps maintain a single source of truth for the data in your app.
Easy Topic Classifier on iOS with Apple’s Natural Language Framework
How to take advantage of Apple’s APIs with already-existing data for text classification
Creating an iOS Widget for your Wallet app
Widgets are a powerful extension for your iPhone, iPad and Mac apps and is a perfect way to extend and personalize your iPhone home screen with new visual functionality.
Swift 4 KeyPaths and You
Swift 4 is almost upon us, and I thought I would explore one of its features that I haven’t had the opportunity to that much: KeyPaths. There’s a lot of interesting nuance in here that I previously didn’t realize existed which I’d love to share.
Executing AppleScript in a Mac app on macOS Mojave and dealing with AppleEvent sandboxing
Over a weekend recently I built a tiny Mac app (more on that later). What I was trying to achieve required executing AppleScript, like so many things on macOS. It seemed simple enough, but of course new app sandboxing restrictions...
Create Your First Function Builder in 5 Minutes
Bypass the mistakes I made and jump straight into the code.
Swift 5.1 Takes Dependency Injection to the Next Level
How to use Swift 5.1 property wrappers to cut your dependency injection code in half
Memory Management in Swift: Understanding Strong, Weak and Unowned References
Memory Management in Swift: Understanding Strong, Weak and Unowned References
Adding Login Items for macOS
Automatically launch your app after login
Start dockless apps at login with App Sandbox enabled
If we want to run a dockless application at login and we are using Mac OS X 10.5 or later, we can add login items using a shared file list with Launch