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With advances in the frameworks and tools we use to develop software, creating a new app seems like magic. We just click a few buttons, and everything is created for us. I enjoy magic, but I think that sometimes we end up being Framework “users” without...
Read More...An essential step before you deliver your application to your users is to make sure that your app is not overusing your user’s resources. In this post, I’ll show how to use Xcode’s visual debugger and the command-line counterparts to check for common...
Read More...Getting the screenshots of your app doesn’t need to be complicated, and it shouldn’t require you to install additional applications to do it. Sure you can use any other third-party library, but sometimes simple is better. Also, it is always fun to...
Read More...Sometimes we only want to do the simplest of tasks of build and upload to TestFlight without having to spend much time doing lots of configuration. Maybe we are only testing a minimum viable product (MVP) and want to make it accessible to beta users...
Read More...At some point on your app development career, you’ll find yourself working with text fields to get some data from the user. Collecting data from the user sometimes involves additional work than merely reading text from an UITextField. For example,...
Read More...Building a command-line interface (CLI) tools is a complicated task. We work on the logic of our application and also have to deal with other details like parsing parameters, handling the correct display directives depending on the TTY, etcetera. Vapor...
Read More...Swift is a powerful language. It can be used to create command-line tools, iOS apps, watch OS apps, macOS apps and server-side applications. However, sometimes, we only need to complete a small task, maybe do some automation on our local setup or build...
Read More...If you decided to create an Extension for your app (maybe a Today Extension), you will quickly find out that you need to access data from your main app. And soon after, you will find out that you can’t access files in your main app directly from the...
Localization is not only translating content but adapting the content to culture, language and customs. This makes our apps more intuitive and engaging for our users. We can localize not only text, but we can also localize images, sounds, shortcuts...
Read More...Accessing remote servers using passwords has been discouraged for a long time, and it is suggested to use SSH public keys as the authentication method. I’ve noticed that for some users, the setup and maintenance of their keys becomes a problem, so...
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