Saoud M. RizwanUsing GitRoyalty to fund my nearly abandoned 2.6k star Open Source projectI maintain a fairly popular open source project called Disk that helps iOS developers work with the iPhone’s filesystem. I had to learn…Nov 7, 20192Nov 7, 20192
Saoud M. RizwanIntroducing GitRoyalty–the First OSS PaywallI’ve been an open source developer since I was in high school. It’s part of who I am as a software engineer, and I’ve learned so much and…Oct 27, 2019Oct 27, 2019
Saoud M. RizwanHandling Multiple URLSession Tasks EfficientlyDuring my transition from relying on Alamofire to working with the native URLSession class myself, I’ve come across a fundamental issue…Aug 26, 20179Aug 26, 20179
Saoud M. RizwanHow to Use the iOS Tooltip Menu in Your Own AppYou’ve probably seen this tooltip control in some of Apple’s default apps or when editing text on iOS. This tooltip actually has a name…Aug 19, 20171Aug 19, 20171
Saoud M. RizwanMake Your iOS App ‘Feel’ Better — A Guide Over Taptic Engine & Haptic FeedbackUpdate: Checkout my open source framework, Piano. It makes using the Taptic Engine much easier, allowing you to create patterns of sound…Aug 14, 20178Aug 14, 20178
Saoud M. RizwanSwift 4 - Saving Codable structs? Let’s make things even easier!Update: I recently released Disk, a sweet little framework that makes persistence on iOS super easy. I’d love for you to check it out!Jul 22, 20179Jul 22, 20179
Saoud M. RizwanAdding Gesture Recognizers with Closures Instead of SelectorsThe worst part about adding a UITapGestureRecognizer or any sort of gesture recognizer/target action is implementing a new function solely…Jul 18, 20176Jul 18, 20176
Saoud M. RizwanNetworking and Persistence with JSON in Swift 4 (Part 2)Thank you all for the great feedback on the previous article! Some of you wanted to know more about different networking requests and…Jul 17, 20171Jul 17, 20171
Saoud M. RizwanNetworking and Persistence with JSON in Swift 4 (Part 1)Update: I recently released Disk, a sweet little framework that makes persistence on iOS super easy. I’d love for you to check it out!Jul 15, 201710Jul 15, 201710
Saoud M. RizwanController View Design Pattern for Swift (New!)There’s two kinds of iOS developers out there — those that use storyboards and those that create & layout their views programmatically…Jun 1, 20172Jun 1, 20172