If you want to debug your network traffic on iOS, Pulse looks like a great alternative to Wireshark, Proxyman, and Charles Proxy.
Pulse takes a different approach, embedding into your app rather than sniffing the network, which can be pretty invasive. (Proxyman “basically performs a MITM attack to see your encrypted traffic.” 🤔)
What I wished iOS had is a simple analog of Safari Web Inspector. So I built just that.
Via iOS Dev Weekly.
Most of us developers know can we can should abstract the network layer to support mocking, unit testing, and just to produce a more flexible design.
While lots of us know this, in practice it seems to get overly complicated and not always done well. A good design should simplify things, not complicate things. This is why I like this post focusing on using protocols to simplify network requests and improve testability. It even gets into decoding responses to give you a useful end-to-end flow.
👉 Removing the network layer in your iOS app
Even better, this is part of a Power of Protocols series (yay!).
Great article on using Combine for Promise-like networking code in Swift. Featuring error handling, dependency chaining, multiple concurrent requests. 🤓
👉 URLSession and the Combine framework
It’s not yet another networking library.
A minimalist Swift “micro-wrapper” on top of URLSession to handle retries. Remember, these days URLSession is very good, and we may not want to use a full-fledged third-party networking library. Via iOS Dev Weekly.
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