Magical record is the most popular and widely used Coredata wrapper. It’s Github page says, “Super Awesome Easy Fetching for Core Data!”. But it isn’t magical anymore. This post explains why you should remove it and steps to get started. — Why is Magical record not magical anymore? This project’s activity has stopped. It has over 200 open issues. Having an external dependency with no active support is risky.

Every WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) is exciting for engineers in the Apple ecosystem. It brings hope, fresh ideas, and new opportunities. Here is my WWDC wishlist for 2020. Apple Analytics Apple Crashlytics Advanced Apple Performance Kit (Metric Kit) Every app needs analytics, crash reports, and performance metrics. Adding third-party dependencies…

The performance of any app is crucial for user engagement and retention. When an app grows, more features get added, app size increases, and external dependencies increase. It is essential to audit the impact of these changes and continuously improve the app for better performance. Measuring performance can be done…

These terms are often confusing especially for the beginners in Swift. So I have compiled few examples to understand the differences between self, Self and Type below self Every instance of a type has an implicit property called self, which is exactly equivalent to the instance itself. You use the self…

Migrated an archivable Objective-C class to Swift today. Let’s name it Address. Address is saved locally in the app using NSKeyedArchiver. This class is part of the private pod which is used by various other modules. But after the conversion, the app started crashing with the exception “NSInvalidUnarchiveOperationException: cannot decode…

Here are my recommendations for best entry level bikes. Montra is my preferred brand for this range. 2018 models of these bikes will be cheaper. Both moutain and hybrid bikes works well for Indian roads. It’s better to stick to basic bike without front suspention, disc brakes etc, as the quality of components used for these features will be lower in this price range. Montra trance pro Cost: ₹19,650/ for 2019 model

In the opening match of IPL 2019, RCB lost top order batters early. The scoreboard read 38–3. They were bowled out for 70. In the 12th match at the same venue, CSK lost three wickets for 27. Then walked in MS Dhoni. He slowed the game down. Begining of the…

Swift is a moving programming language. It has grown fast. The next step of its growth is ABI stability, to be introduced in Swift 5 Application Binary Interface(ABI) defines how software programs can communicate with compiled binaries. ABI consists of Data layout, which defines how datatype instances are laid out…

Auto layout uses the priority for the constraints to resolve a conflict between two different constraints. In the case of views with intrinsic size, auto layout uses content hugging and content compression resistance to resolve the conflicts. Let us consider an example. Suppose we have a fixed height view with two…