Apple/iOS

New Features in iOS 10

Today's the day. Apple is releasing iOS 10. Here are a handful of new features  you can look forward to!

News From Apple's 2016 Fall Event

Apple's yearly fall event where new hardware is announced occurred Wedesday. As expected, there were announcements on the Apple Watch, iPhone 7, and new wireless earbuds.

Reverse Engineering In Software

What is Reverse Engineering?

WWDC 2016

WWDC 2016 was a software centric show that introduced lots of new user facing features as well as provided developers with many new APIs to plug directly into system apps. All four of Apple’s major platforms received updates, which will be publicly available this fall. Check out what’s new!

Apple Event Spring 2016

Apple’s Spring event has come and gone and we are left with a flurry of new products and software.

How to Use SwiftGen to Generate an Enum From Your Asset Catalog

Normally, if you need to programmatically create a `UIImage` for an image in your asset catalog, you're stuck with the stringly typed method which returns an optional:

Using Docker for Internal Tools & Infrastructure

Docker is a containerization solution that allows apps to run in a sandboxed environment that includes all the dependencies they will need without the additional overhead of a virtual machine. This sounds great--we can containerize our applications and deploy them, no more server provisioning and maintenance! Unfortunately, this is way more difficult than it sounds if a zero-downtime solution is needed. If you are just deploying a small-scale app without a cluster of servers, you will have downtime while Docker stops the existing app container and starts the container with your new code.

Concurrency in iOS

Concurrency is a condition in a program where two or more tasks are defined independently, and each can execute independent of the other, even if the other is also executing at the same time. In programming concurrency can mean several computations, data loads, or instructions are being handled relatively at the same time, through a single-core or multiple-core processor.

A Guide to XCode UI Test

Apple’s new UITest suite has some developers excited, and others disappointed in lost functionality. UITest works differently than the functional testing solutions developers have come to rely on, such as KIF. Instead of giving you access to elements themselves, UITest gives access to proxy elements with minimal parameters to interact with. Learning to separate unit testing and unit based uitesting from functional testing can be a frustrating experience, especially when working with a new framework that still has its own kinks to work out. It is my hope the following guide will help developers form some clarity into the methodology needed when working with UITest.

How To Implement 3D Touch

3D Touch is a new feature exclusive to iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. It provides a new way for users to interact with our apps. As such, it’s important for developers to embrace this new technology. There are two ways that 3D Touch can be integrated into your app.

Top 46 iOS Developer Resources

I have collected a list of quality blogs, newsletters, courses etc to further an iOS developer's knowledge and stay on top of news. This is not a huge list of every resource out there by any means, but I think these are the best.

Apple's Hey Siri Event Roundup

Apple's much anticipated event for announcing their late 2015 products was Wednesday and more than exceeded expectations. The invitation to the event included the tagline "Hey Siri, give us a hint!" Actually asking Siri to give a hint would illicit a playful and humorous response. Now that the event is over, you may be wondering what really happened at Apple's Hey Siri event.