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Keyboard Management

Quite often in iOS, we will need to build screens that contain one or more text fields in which the user can input some values. In these situations, it is not unusual to have some of your screen elements blocked by the keyboard that pops up on screen. In fact, this happens all too often, so…

Fluent Attributed Strings

One thing all iOS developers have to deal with is styling text. There are many ways to go about achieving this. You could do it graphically via interface builder. Programmatically you could use UILabel’s exposed properties such as `font` and `textColor` or you could use attributed…

Hit Me Views, One More Time

So in a side project that I am working on, I have a view that lives outside of the bounds of its parent’s bounds. Due to this, the view does not receive any touch events. What gives?

The Truth

When making applications of any kind there is a very important truth that while simple, seems to be a problem that pops up time and time again.

This truth is summed up in a tweet by Dan Abramov as shown below.

Serial Requests with RxJS

I recently came across a problem that I was able to solve elegantly using Reactive Extensions and I wanted to share with others and also for my future self.

I am currently working on an ecommerce mobile app that allows the user to shop for products and also…

Subscribe it like it’s Hot!

When it comes to observables in Reactive Extensions, they come in two flavours. Cold and hot. Knowing how they differ seems to be a source of confusion for a lot of people including myself so here is a rundown of how they work.