A great article via iOS Dev Weekly on defining a design system for your app. A design system ensures consistency, efficiency, accessibility, and reusability.
A design system defines the visual language of a product’s design.
👉 Building a Design System for iOS – Part 1 – Introduction
It’s looking easier than ever to learn from Stanford University. The Computer Science department has posted their latest class on Developing Apps for iOS online. 🤯.
It’s free. It has lecture videos, handouts, and assignments. As far as I can tell, you get everything but grades and a diploma. 🤷🏻♂️. But feel free to make an app!
👉 CS193p – Developing Apps for iOS at Stanford
It currently covers SwiftUI, MVVM and the Swift Type System, Reactive UI Protocols Layout, and Grid enum Optionals.
Here’s an alternative for automated iOS UI testing, if Apple’s XCUI isn’t doing the trick for you. This one seems to let you peek under the hood of your app a little more.
EarlGrey is a white-box functional UI testing framework for iOS developed by Google.
👉 UI Testing iOS application with EarlGrey | on GitHub
Via iOS Dev Weekly.
Here’s a cool idea: “Apple developers, this is your search engine.“
Via iOS Dev Weekly.
Error handling makes everything more complicated. Ugh! What do you do if a network call times out (pretty common)? Or you’re trying to save an image and there is no disk space (less common but can happen)? Or that thing that’s never supposed to happen happens (occasionally happens)?
I mean, you have to do something, right? Ugh. 🤦🏻♂️
Here are some tips. Thanks to Swift By Sundell for giving this topic some attention.
👉 Propagating user-facing errors in Swift
Via iOS Dev Weekly.
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