The best way to learn and become more creative as a developer is to focus on a side project. A really good friend coming back from Japan came to me with an idea when I needed that side project. This is how we created Japan Direct, from the idea to the App Store in almost no time.
For the last couple weeks, I tried to step back on my development to analyse what is time consuming in mobile development. I realised that most of new views are based on same approach, reimplementing an similar structure around a UICollectionView or UITableView.
What if I can have a more generic approach where I can focus only on what matters, the user experience. That’s what I tried to explore in this article.
Last couple weeks, I have traveled with only my iPhone with me and I realised how many apps I daily used still relying on their websites. Even with the right iOS app installed, I had to browse on Safari app to get specific details. That is why it’s so important to support universal links in iOS. Let me show you how.
Enumerations have changed a lot between Objective-C and Swift. We can easily forget how useful and powerful it can. I wanted to get back to it through simple examples to make the most of it.
Firebase is a set of tools introduced by Google to build better mobile apps. I worked with this many times and even if it’s straight forward to integrate, here are couple advices of implementation to make the most of it.
The best part of continuous integration is the ability to automatically run tests and build apps, ready to be deployed. However, automatic build doesn’t mean smart or optimised build. Here are some tips I collected along the way to speed up delivery process.
To be sure new code won’t break old one already implemented, it’s best practice to write unit tests. When it comes to app architectures, it can be a challenge to write those tests. Following an MVVM pattern, how to unit test a view and its viewModel? That’s what I would like to cover here using dependency injection.