An in-depth guide to creating an amazing daily quotes app — I had some fun recently adding complications to my strength training app Strength++, as I went directly to the “new” WidgetKit framework. It’s not actually new, but what is new in wOS 9 is that you can use WidgetKit instead of the old ClockKit to create complications for the watch. …

Add Apple’s new login functionality to your app and server — One of the most interesting aspects of iOS 13 (the most recent major release) is that it gave us a tool to create our own authorization-based back-end servers for our iOS apps. Sure, we had “Sign in with Facebook, Google, etc.” …

Sharing state between components — Let’s take the following scenario: You have a ParentView with two child views, ChildView1 and ChildView2. On ChildView1, you have a button that should trigger an action in ChildView2. Now on that button tap, we want to change the text on that text field to something more appropriate. Let’s…

Xcode 11.4 beta 1 surprised us last week with a long awaited feature: push notifications on the simulator! (standing ovation). As anyone that ever had to debug push notifications on iOS knows, the process (depending on your backend implementation) is a bit of a hassle. Starting from the fact that…

Cocoapods, Carthage -> SPM — For the last couple of years, I’ve been managing an iOS framework created by me with small utilities that I kept reusing throughout my projects. It’s no big deal, but it’s a good exercise for me in creating, updating, documenting, and testing a framework. This framework is available on GitHub…