Empty View With Diffable Datasource
Tech NoteEmpty views are a critical piece of user experience on iOS. Today in tech notes, I explore how this might be done with diffable datasource.
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A Best In Class App: Spend Stack Checkup
I've often written about what it takes to be considered a best in class app on iOS. So, how am I doing personally according to my own definition?
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Xcode Preview Snips
Xcode Previews for SwiftUI has quite literally changed a decade old workflow. Here are the techniques I currently live by.
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On Forming Habits
What indie dev isn't short on time, wants to ship a new app or write that book? It only happens with realistic goals which beget good habits - here's how I work to create, and foster, good ones.
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Can You Learn Design?
There's a lot of discussion in our industry about whether or not designers should learn to code. But, what about the other direction?
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Introducing Spend Stack
If I write about indie development, I suppose it's time to reveal my indie project. Many years in the making, here's Spend Stack.
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A Best in Class iOS App
What is a best in class iOS app? How are they built, and can we quantify what makes them great?
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Optimizing Images
iOS is a visual medium teeming with beautiful images in virtually every app on your phone. Important though they are, it's trivial to mismanage them from a memory and performance standpoint.
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Swift Keywords
Swift has quite a few keywords. Let's look at every single one, what it does and provide a code sample.
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Swift
- #keyPath
- A Swift Refactor
- Access Control
- ARC
- Attributes in Swift
- bool
- Casting
- Consuming and Transforming Arrays
- Defer
- Definitive Initialization
- Error Handling
- Guard
- Initialization
- Initialization with Closures
- int
- Javascript
- Looping and Iteration
- noescape
- NS_CLOSED_ENUM
- NS_SWIFT_NAME
- Objective-C and Swift Together
- Option Set
- Pattern Matching
- Protocol Extensions
- Protocol Oriented Programming
- set
- Swift 3 Feature Highlight
- Swift Keywords
- Tuples
Foundation
- Copy on Write
- NSMeasurement
- NSPredicate
- NSSecureCoding
- NSURLComponents
- Quality of Service
- Tail Call Elimination
Trivia
- WWDC 2015: The Pregame Quiz
- WWDC 2016: The Pregame Quiz
- WWDC 2017: The Pregame Quiz
- WWDC 2018: The Pregame Quiz
- WWDC 2019: The Pregame Quiz
Misc
- Connecting iOS Apps with Their Websites
- iOS True Confessions
- Objective-C in 2015
- On Learning iOS
- simctl
Series
- iOS Architecture Patterns: Part 1
- iOS Architecture Patterns: Part 2
- iOS Architecture Patterns: Part 3
- iOS Citizenship: Reacting to Low Power Mode
- Random Wisdom: Part 1
UIKit
- Dealing with Home Indicator
- Global Functions
- iOS 11: Notable UIKit Additions
- iOS 12: Notable UIKit Additions
- iOS 13: Notable UIKit Additions
- Leveraging Swift Enums for Quick Actions
- Supporting External Displays
- UIGraphicsImageRenderer
- UILayoutGuide
- UIStackView: A Field Guide
Safari Services
Device Check
Image IO
The Indie Dev Diaries
- A Best In Class App: Spend Stack Checkup
- A Best in Class iOS App
- Can You Learn Design?
- I Made Some Pancakes
- Introducing Spend Stack
- On Forming Habits
- On Launching Your Indie App
- The Chart That Lies