Monetizing Your Apps with Apple’s In-App Purchases
iOSIt's hard monetizing your apps, and as much as Apple has done to make in-app purchasing (aka IAP) easy, it's still not easy. The...
Breaking Down Type Erasure in Swift
iOSAs a fan of strongly typed programming languages, I love relying on the type system to catch common mistakes and typos early. Occasionally though...
Server-Side Swift with Vapor
iOSSwift on the server is an exciting application of the language. In this post, we'll take a look at a popular framework to get...
Manual Swift: Understanding the Swift/Objective-C Build Pipeline
iOS Leveling UpEvery build pipeline is an opportunity for leaks and stoppages. Understanding how all the bits come together to make a functioning app helps you...
Articulation Accents
iOS Leveling UpIs it possible to ask a question that leads you directly to fixing a bug? If so, how do you find those questions to...
Using Swift Enumerations Makes Segues Safer
iOSSwift style encourages developers to use the compiler to their advantage, and one of the ways to accomplish this is to leverage the type...
A Rubyist’s Perspective on Testing in Swift
Back-End Full-Stack Web iOSI took a week-long hacking vacation (“hackcation”?) to start an iOS app side project. I learned testing in Ruby, which is known for the...
Big Nerd Ranch Alumnus Releases Second App in App Store
iOSChris Hepworth is an alumnus of the (https://nerdranchighq.wpengine.com/training/courses/ios-essentials-with-swift/) bootcamp here at Big Nerd Ranch who recently released his second app in...
ConstraintLayout vs Auto Layout: How Do They Compare?
Android iOSConstraintLayout and Auto Layout use the same underlying algorithm. How do they differ?
Video: Cleaning Up Messy Chaining in Swift
iOSSwift allows for chaining methods together to perform powerful operations in a single line of code. If you aren’t careful, however, this can lead...
Prefer Bare Enum Tags When That’s All You Need
iOSSwift's destructuring case statements are cool. But when you don't care about the associated data at all, go with `case .tag:` rather than `case...
What Use are Swift Access Modifiers?
iOS MacIf you're writing Swift apps and not Swift frameworks, do Swift's access modifiers even matter, or are they just a big distraction?
