Coordinator iOS Jul 12 2019

I am using the coordinator pattern on my Counter App. These are the steps to implement the coordinator pattern.

Text extraction tools for macOS and iOS app localization Jul 10 2019

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...

Understanding SSH Keys and using Keychain to manage passphrase on macOS Jul 3 2019

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...

Tracking where settings are stored on macOS Jun 28 2019

In this post, I'll explain how to figure out where macOS stores specific preferences and how to modify them using the command line tool defaults. Knowing where the preferences are stored and how to manage them programmatically allows us to create scripts...

Xcode code structure - matching groups and filesystem May 24 2019

A folder structure makes it easy to navigate and understand any project. On Xcode, we can build the project structure using groups. The problem with this is that it doesn't reflect on the filesystem. What this means is that if we are looking at the...

Apple's Natural Language Framework basics - Status of Tibetan support Mar 11 2019

The Natural Language framework, introduced by Apple in 2018, provides tools for developers to process and analyse text. The framework provides the following capabilities:

• Identification of language and scripts
• Tokenization
• Tagging
• Lemmatization

Using ICU transforms in Swift Feb 28 2019

The International Components for UnicodeICU provides powerful libraries for working with Unicode. In this post, I'll explain the basics of how to use ICU transforms in Swift. There are many areas to explore in ICU and Swift, but we will focus on using...

What is AppDelegate for in iOS? Jan 23 2019

Each app in iOS has only one UIApplication object in charge of managing the app when your app changes state in its life cycle(e.g. activate, suspend, send to background, reactivate, etc.) it notifies it's AppDelegate so it can run any task required...

Setup Swift LSP and Vim Jan 22 2019

With the release of SourceKit-LSP we can run an LSP server for the Swift programming language. That means that we can take advantage of autocompletion and jump to the definition in our text editors that support connection to an LSP server. I'll show...

iPad multitasking and StackView Jan 3 2019

To make the user experience better on iPad for multitasking remember that you can change the axis of your StackViews depending on the size class of your view or view controller.