While wishing a happy new year around me, people helped me realised how many good things happened to me this year. Funny enough, while listing my goals for 2019, I found the matching list for 2018 and here is what really happened.

From my first year studying computer science, I’ve always wanted to do more on my free time and create simple projects that could be useful for others. I won’t lie, I wish I was able to monetise them but regardless the outcome, learning was always part of the journey.

During this year, I have blogged quite a bit about code architecture in Swift and I’ve realised that I didn’t explain much about which design pattern to use with it. In a serie of coming posts, I will cover different design patterns, starting now with observer.

For a while now, I really wanted to work on a machine learning project, especially since Apple let you import trained model in your iOS app now. Last September, I took part of a 24h hackathon for an Ecommerce business, that was my chance to test it. The idea was simple: a visual search app, listing recommended products based on a picture.

It has been couple months since my last post and despite the idea, a lot of things kept me busy far from blogging. Looking back, it all articulates around the same idea: why it’s important to always keep your skills sharp.

Couple months ago, I’ve built an app and released it on the App Store. Since published, I really wanted to see how it lives and understand how to make it grow. Ideally, I wanted to know if there is a product / market fit. In the article, I describe each steps and ideas that helped my app grow and what I learnt from it.

Most of mobile apps interact at some point with remote services, fetching data from an api, submitting a form… Let’s see how to use Codable in Swift to easily encode objects and decode JSON in couple lines of codes.

I recently went for a Swift conference and UI automation testing was one of the subject. I already mentioned it with Appium in the past but I think it’s time to go back to it and explain why today I still prefer using Apple’s testing framework instead.

I recently implemented 3D touch for an app and I was very interested about home screen quick actions. If it can be a good way to improve user experience, it doesn’t mean your app always needs it. In this article, I explain how to add home screen shortcut for your app in Swift but mostly why can justify implementing it.

I recently realised that my first blog post was 6 years ago. It’s a good occasion for me to do a little retrospective and share what I learnt from blogging over the years.