In my current iOS position, I’m deeply involved in building a framework for iOS games. I wouldn’t write this article if this framework weren’t unusual. What do I mean by that — unusual? Usually, frameworks encapsulate only the source code without dependencies and other libraries, and of course, I don’t…

I think it’s not necessary to start this article with how important to write tests — you know it better than me. Also, I won’t go to dive into the theory of patterns and approaches. …

Surprisingly for myself, I realized that I have never implemented address autocompletion using only Apple technologies. Before, I had experience only with Google Places SDK and even with the not-so-well-known European GeoDataHub. I found it curious — to know how we can limit ourselves to using only SwiftUI and MapKit…

I’m working on a project where we started classically — UIKit without storyboards, MVVM + Coordinator design pattern. It can be familiar to you especially if you are working for a start-up. All our development process is going really quickly. Sometimes my typical working day I would compare it with…

From Swift to C# — Part 1. Launch UIViewController from Unity I won’t waste your time on a long introduction about the technologies that I will describe here. You most likely already work as an iOS Engineer or Game Developer, which means you probably have some questions regarding the topic of this article. So, let’s get started. This article is split…

If you’ve updated Xcode to version 14 you might get an error about mutating actor-isolated property in your project. Let’s fix it. — I’m not going to tell you again about Actors from scratch, what is it and how it works. Since Apple has introduced Swift 5.5 there are tons of cool articles about them. If you still don’t use actors then it’s time to take a look. I bet it will come…

Exploring a nonstandard situation — On the internet, in the Apple documentation, and here on Medium, there is a ton of information about SwiftUI, how to use it from UIKit, and vice versa. But today, let’s consider a not-so-common case in real life that’s useful to reflect on non-standard situations in iOS development. Task: Show…

Some time ago, I got a very specific task: to create UILabel that handles basic HTML tags <b>, <i>, <u>, <a>, etc. The links should have normal and active states. It must work in both frameworks: UIKit and SwiftUI in the same way. The result should look like this: TL;DR GitHub…

Firstly, I want to say thank you to all who helped me to make this application alive. Since the first release, I already knew about what should be updated, added, and fixed in the app, and it’s not because I am a genius, it’s all because of the help and…