Apple snuck in a pretty amazing update at WWDC 2017 that got almost zero keynote attention: NFC Reading. People have dreamed of Apple opening an NFC API on the iPhone for years. And for good reason – accessing external peripherals open up incredible IoT use cases for our apps. Personally, as someone who’s worked with Core Bluetooth and external […]
The Setup After working with MVC and MVP in cocoa touch for the last few years, I think it’s time to take a step back and consider the MVVM approach. Recently, I watched a talk given my Ben DiFrancesco where he discusses how and why you should adopt MVVM in your projects. Ben explains how adding […]
Unicode is great! It’s so great that it solves all of our localized character issues. But what if you’re working with a low level accessory that requires ASCII ONLY characters as valid input? Let’s say you were to throw in some 💩? How would this system deal with that? This may produce unexpected results and really mess-up-yo-day. […]
When starting to learn Swift, you will eventually want to explore creating Swift closures as asynchronous completion handlers. Naturally, you’ll try and fire up a Playground and wire up a function that takes another function as an argument. But when you want to test your completion execution, you might have noticed that the debug console […]
Credit: xkcd CocoaPods are an incredibly helpful tool for incorporating dependencies into your Xcode projects. But what if you want to create your own pod to share as an open-source project or for internal use? This is exactly where I am today and I decided to document my findings as a reference to myself and […]
Passing by reference is sometimes convenient depending on your needs. Luckily, if you’re using Swift, it’s pretty simple.Watch Full Movie Online Streaming Online and Download In Swift, you can add the inout keyword in place of var. Here’s an example: Swift var myInt:Int = 5 func doubleInt(inout myInt:Int) -> Void { myInt *= 2 } print(myInt) […]