iOS

A critique on the inconsistent placement of the ‘Apple Music’ vs ‘Library’ filter in the search function across the iOS Music app and iTunes on Mac, and questions the lack of a handoff feature between these platforms.

This post compares 3D Touch on iPhones and Force Touch on the Apple Watch, noting their similar technology but different user experiences due to screen size. It expresses frustration with the inconsistent interaction between the devices, especially when dealing with notifications, highlighting a need for better integration in Apple’s ecosystem.

‘Animator’ is a Swift tool that simplifies creating complex UIView animations in iOS apps, using chainable animation blocks for a clean, readable syntax. It enhances the animation capabilities of UIKit by allowing sequential execution of animation steps with customizable parameters like duration, delay, and animation options, including spring damping and initial velocity. This tool aims to make code for complex animations more manageable and understandable, with an emphasis on continuity and ease of use.

DispatchGroup in Swift offers a simple solution for synchronizing multiple unrelated asynchronous operations. It allows tracking the completion of various tasks, even on different queues, without complex setups. This approach avoids messy and non-scalable code, making it ideal for handling multiple asynchronous tasks efficiently.

SwiftFSM is state machine implemented in Swift as a library library. You may import this into your project. This post goes into explaining it’s functions and features.

Note — Since the release of Swift 3, a few statements made in this article are not true for Swift 3, but they hold good for older versions of Swift. The power of structures in Swift makes you want to use it a lot more than you would in any other language. This is a good thing, as long as you know when to use structures and when to strictly not....

Note — This article is now outdated. There’s a new article with updated info here. When working on a project not too long ago, My teammate and I came across the following situation. We started developing the project on Swift 2.0 and moved over to 2.1 with the released of Xcode 7.1. We used a class conforming to the NSCoding protocol to store the basic information about the app’s user....