Build a lightweight logger for the events in your App — In big or small apps understanding realtime on debug what is happening is crucial. Inspecting the value of a property or reading the json response of a service is an every day task. To perform it you could use breakpoints on Xcode but it is not a fast option. You…

Learn the Theory with Examples of the famous SOLID Principles in iOS Programming — Building an app with no bugs, sometimes, well every time in bigger projects, is not enough. To update and maintain a real project you need to write ordered and clean code. Applying patterns like MVVM, VIPER, etc.. is not enough either. You must learn other principles. The strongest and more…

Update your UI to the new Apple style — With the introduction of VisionPro, Apple entered officially in the new era of its User Interface style, the Glassmorphism. In this story I’ll create a view modifier to add a touch of glassmorphism to your apps. As usually you can find the full code of the final project (SwiftUI and…

Learn how to use the powerful strategy pattern in Swift — Few months ago I was working on a big app for merchants. My team had to implement the functionality that allowed the users to use their POS machines to accept customers payments with credit cards. The app needed to handle 3 models of POS from different vendors and only one…

How to remove the annoying arrow in custom row views inside a SwiftUI NavigationLinks — SwiftUI comes with tons of great modifiers out of the box. Sadly not everything has been done yet and sometimes you need to invent approaches or work arounds to fill the gaps. …

Discover the best free online resources to start you path as an iOS Developer — Yesterday with my company Wakala I’ve been in Naples (Italy) at the European Apple Academy to attend the end of the year celebration and to the presentation of the Apps developed by the students. It really was an amazing day, meeting a lot of interesting and talented younglings… not only…

A simple yet clever way to avoid tons of network calls in you apps — Few days ago I was working on one of the apps we build in my company and I asked to one of my junior dev to debounce the input text of a search field. The guy did not know how to do it and asked me for some help. I…

A full list of new APIs available in UIKit in iOS 17 — Despite the increasingly widespread use of SwiftUI on Apple platforms, the Cupertino manufacturer has also released several updates for the classic frameworkused to build the UI in our apps: UIKit. In this article I will show you the complete list of new features. Please note that the following updates are…

Discover what’s new in iOS17 SwiftUI Scrollview APIs — The WWDC 2023 is about to end and as usually every year, Apple gave us a huuuge quantity of small and big updates. In todays article I’ll show you some great, and honestly needed, updates to the ScrollView component in SwiftUI. As usually you can find the full code of…