Push notifications are the best tool to increase user engagement inside and outside your app — Push notifications are a commonly used tool to increase and drive user engagement inside and outside your app. They are best used to communicate valuable updates to your users that pertain to either their account or content they have created that is being interacted with. Users of your app can…

Start, fetch, update, and end live activities — iOS 16 has brought a great new feature that’s sure to add value when implemented in new and interesting ways for a whole host of developers. Live Activities and their implementation though could do with a bit of explanation as there are a few steps involved in getting started. I’ve…

An Async/Await API layer to help you ace live coding interviews — A common requirement in iOS developer live coding interviews is being able to implement networking layers from scratch within a set time frame. While it may not come up often when working professionally as most apps will already contain an established network layer, knowing how to build one quickly when…

ScrollView + HStack + Enums — Many apps require a horizontal filter for displaying different categories of content. UIKit contains a wealth of ways to construct these views which range from build-it-yourself solutions to importing a complete 3rd party SDK to handle it. SwiftUI on the other hand is still relatively new (despite being in its…