Published inBetter Programming·May 10, 2022Environment Values as an Alternative to Dependency Injection in SwiftUIUsing Environment Values to avoid unnecessary body re-evaluations and make our views more self-contained. — Dependency injection is a 25-dollar term for a 5-cent concept. -James Shore Dependency Injection is a fancy way of saying that we will provide an object with the object(s) it requires or depends on, to perform its job. In SwiftUI, a very common way of implementing Dependency Injection is by…Swiftui4 min readSwiftui4 min read
Published inBetter Programming·Jan 12, 2022Building a Responder Chain Using the SwiftUI View HierarchyHarnessing EnvironmentValues to easily respond to events generated throughout the view hierarchy — Over the past 10 years I’ve spent a lot of time answering questions in StackOverflow, and a question I see very often is a flavor of: How do I trigger an event in class A from a function in class B? This may seem like a simple question for a…IOS5 min readIOS5 min read
Dec 13, 2018Recreating Tweetbot’s Refresh BarTweetbot 5 came out recently, and it has a custom refresh control that looks really good. It’s a simple animation, but it gets the job done, so I decided to recreate it. Note: When I started implementing this animation I thought about implementing it as a refresh control, but it…IOS3 min readIOS3 min read
Oct 5, 2018Recreating Instagram’s Page ControlThis is the first part of a small project I’ve had in mind for a while, a series of articles where I recreate nice UI details of popular apps and explain step by step how it’s done. Introduction The Instagram app has a lot of nice UI details, one the always…IOS9 min readIOS9 min read
May 17, 2018I Haven’t Used a Light Switch in over a YearOr “This Millennial is Trying to Kill the Light Switch Industry” — TL;DR: I automated the lights in my apartment. There’s a video at the end if you don’t feel like reading. For the longest time I’ve had a big interest in home automation, it’s been a dream of mine to have a smart home that reacts to my needs with minimum…Smart Home7 min readSmart Home7 min read
Sep 18, 2016Temporary RelocationI started working at Savvy Apps as a remote worker almost two years ago. …Travel7 min readTravel7 min read
