Top 10 iOS articles this summer

How Design Companies Build Communities

Hello from sunny Kyiv!

🌤 Summer came to an end, so it’s time to share what’s happened in the iOS community in the last 3 months. We’ll discover new iOS tools, interesting reports, and iOS guides.

Tools & resources & news

• I released an insightful report on the design industry. It shares how the top design players, Sketch, InVision, Figma, and Marvel build online communities. And it’s very nicely designed (we spent a lot of time to bring it to live, please check it out).
• Our Ukrainian friends are happy to share AppSpector, a remote debugging platform for iOS and Android apps. Looks very cool, give it a try!
• If you missed announcements from Dave Verwer: the SwiftPM Library, a place to find packages for Swift, is live 🎉

10 most read iOS articles this summer

• 😈 Will Combine kill RxSwift? by MortyMerr
  Combine framework was presented at WWDC 2019. Let’s talk about whether something changed in our lives.
• 💎 Beautiful Code Principles by Pavle Pesic
  Beautiful code is clean, well-organized and simple to upgrade. Follow 8 simple principles to write beautiful code in your iOS apps.
• 🚲 You don’t (always) need [weak self] by Besher Al Maleh
  Besher covers the use of [weak self] inside of Swift closures to avoid reference (or retain) cycles, and explores cases where it may or may not be necessary to capture self weakly.
• 🤔 How can Property Wrappers and Function Builders be leveraged? by Vincent Pradeilles
  Get the most from new Swift 5.1 features — Property Wrappers & Function Builders.
• 🛠 Problem Solving with Combine Swift by Arlind Aliu
  Combine has simple asynchronous code, simplified multithreading, compassable components. Learn its essentials and see what practical problems we can solve with it.
• 🙈 “Massive” View Controllers or bad coding style? by Besar
  Besar clarifies some misconception concerning MVC, where some developers intent to put all the logic on ViewControllers.
• 🤔 Will Storyboards still be alive? by Nabil Kazi
  Dive into Storyboard pros & cons and learn the long term benefits that Storyboard gives.
• ⏳ iOS Memory Management in Under 6 Minutes by Hassan El Desouky
  Everything you should know about ARC in old good Objective-C.
• 💎 Using Sky Segmentation to create stunning background animations in iOS by Eric Hsiao
  Take a look at how to use Fritz Sky Segmentation on iOS to bring the sky to life in pictures and video frames.
• 💻 A Modular Architecture in iOS by Leandro Pérez
  Create a modular architecture using Cocoapods and Xcode.

A Modular Architecture in iOS

Thanks for reading!

Lisa