For this post I assume you are familiar with the basics of Swift programming. In Swift, Closures are self-contained blocks of functionality–lines of code to be executed in group. In simple they are akin to functions that require no names. They be stored in properties and be passed around. …

For this post I assume you are familiar with Swift, iOS app development using SwiftUI and testing Swift code in iOS app projects. Do you find yourself breaking your SwiftUI iOS app functionality when adding new features? Or maybe even just enhancing current ones? …

Wanting to build a command line app? Sometimes the use of which tech stack to use to build command line apps can be influenced by the functionality that is provided by the language and open-source libraries. What if a shell command functionality is not offered as a Swift library? If…

Simplify managing arguments with Swift Argument Parser — Note in this article I assume you are familiar with the basics of Swift Command Line app development. Working on a Swift Command Line App? Most command line apps may require additional information to execute. For example in my previous post “How to create a command line app with Swift”…

Learn to create tools in Swift to help you manage your project, processes and more — Have you been doing repetitive tasks to manage your app project or to deliver it? In a growing app project you may find yourself doing some tasks that are not related to developing a feature but rather to manage the project. …

Learn about WebSockets through a command line chat app — Let’s say you’re chatting with your friend Kie through a chat app. As soon as your friend sends you a message you expect to receive it straight away in real-time. How can we achieve a real-time a response? Could we use an http server? In this post, I will show…

Learn how to bold, italicize, highlight text, and more on iOS — It’s usual to have multiple labels on our iOS screens with different attributes. Some will be bold and with a big font size; we call these titles of our screens. Some will be smaller, maybe greyed coloured and thinner (or lighter) than the regular font; we call these subtitles. …

Working with Xcode Build Configurations files (XCConfigs) — Have you changed or tweaked your build settings in Xcode? Have you ever pushed Xcode build settings changes to git? Tweaking Xcode build settings can be a messy business. Let’s say you’re working with multiple devs in the same Xcode project. Reviewing changes to the xcodeproj can be hard to…

Learn how to navigate users through your app using NavigationView — Let’s say you are looking to buy cryptocurrency. You decide to open your choice of cryptocurrency trading app. You are presented a list of cryptocurrencies. You select one of them. The screen changes. Now you are presented with detailed information about the cryptocurrency including a chart and the ability to…