MVVM (Model-View-View-Model) and MVC (Model-View-Controller) are iOS design patterns. Apple defines a design pattern as a template for a design that solves a general, recurring problem in a particular context. It is a tool of abstraction that is useful in fields like architecture and engineering as well as software development. …

While exploring new ways of improving our development processes in Lateral View, we started fiddling with With Xcode 9 (now Beta). It comes with the possibility of saving a lot of scripting and certificate management. …

As of Xcode 7 there is a programmatic interface to our app’s UI, thanks to three new classes: XCUIApplication, XCUIElement and XCUIElementQuery. They allows us to write native UI Tests for our iOS apps. Unit tests are useful to test a specific case in a class, and make sure that…

This article is the result of my ongoing efforts to understand the different mechanics involved in Roguelike game development. I chose Swift to code my examples since it’s my main work tool in my role as an iOS developer at Lateral View, and because it’s fun. …

I‘m a big fan of roguelike games (a genre recently enjoying a burst of popularity), and all sort of games with depth and a lot of micromanagement. Since I started playing these, I’ve been amazed at the complexity involved in the core mechanics found in many of them. One of…