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I attended UIKonf (iOS developer conference in Berlin) this week. Great conference. I have been at UIKonf in 2014 but this time it was so much better for me because I talked to so many people. It’s not that the people have been more open...

Sometimes you may wish you could tweak some values of your app (colors, font sizes, text) while you test it in the field. Or you would like to enable a feature to test it but don’t like to show that feature to your beta testers yet. With...

Sometimes you need to add automatic tests for the UI of your app. There are several different approaches to achieve this. In the test you could get the elements of the screen and assert if all the frames are as you expect. Depending on...

Did you know that you can create your own file templates for Xcode? Sure you did. But did you also know that you can create a template that takes a string and puts it into a field you define? Let’s build a file template for a Swift...

Yesterday I read this post by Joseph Jude. He experienced that Swift is way slower in solving the 4th problem from Project Euler when compared to Python and Typescript. The 4th problem in Project Euler is this: A palindromic number...

Yesterday I gave a talk at the Cologne Swift meetup and I tried something new. I used a Swift Playground for the “Slides”. These are my takeaways: Presentation mode Xcode has a presentation mode. But as the resolution of the beamer...

Yesterday I got asked, what a Swift beginner should learn first. Here is the question: I did want to ask you something, is it worth a while to learn TDD, or spend that time learning Swift, and functional programming? Of course, my...

With the new syntax for selectors in Swift 2.2 the approach I used in “Utilize the responder chain for target action” produces a warning. Let’s fix that. Protocols for president First we add a protocol: @objc protocol DetailShowable { ...

I got some feedback to my last blog post about The best table view controller. In this post I want to comment on the feedback because the comment sections is not really good for detailed discussion. Storyboards I couldn’t get...

Since I read the objc.io post about light view controller, every few month I come back to the same problem: find the best way to write a table view controller. I have tried several different approaches like putting the data source and...