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I recently got into the position of leading the technical interviews when my client was searching for a new senior iOS developer.It's a challenging task to evaluate the skills and knowledge of another developer. In this post, I share my...

Solving problems with bits Recently, I had to solve the following task at work.The server sends an integer value between 0 and 127 that represents the state of a weekdays selection. When the server sends a 0, no checkbox should...

It was really exciting to hear about Apples new framework called Combine at WWDC 2019. Finally, we have a native way to write functional reactive code and to build apps in a declarative way.OverviewThe main components of Combine are...

It was really exciting to hear about Apples new framework called SwiftUI at WWDC 2019. This post is a quick guide to get started with SwiftUI.At first, we will take a look at how views in SwiftUI are created, layouted and presented. Then,...

I recently got into the position of leading the technical interviews when my client was searching for a new senior iOS developer.It's a challenging task to evaluate the skills and knowledge of another developer. In this post, I share my...

If you are already familiar with localizing plurals in iOS and you are just looking to remember the specifics, the cheat sheet below will help you out.If you are new to this, skip the cheat sheet for now and read the basics below.Cheat...

At the WWDC 2020, Apple introduced the new Swift logging API for iOS 14. This post summarizes how to take advantage of this new API to debug behavior in your iOS apps. I'm listening, tell me more about this new logging...

I recently got into the position of leading the technical interview when my client was searching for a new senior iOS developer.It's a challenging task to evaluate the skills and knowledge of another developer. So in this series, I want to...

In a nutshell, GraphQL is an API design paradigm that describes how to ask for data. It is an alternative to the currently more known REST approach. Originally, GraphQL was developed and open-sourced in 2015 by Facebook. Since then, it has...

Being a software developer means sitting long hours in front of a computer every day. Our body isn’t designed to sit all day, so to stay healthy as a developer it is important to take care of our body every day and to have healthy habits. ...

I recently got into the position of leading the technical interview when my client was searching for a new senior iOS developer.It's a challenging task to evaluate the skills and knowledge of another developer. So in this post, I want to...

Since iOS 13, users can choose between a system-wide light or dark appearance. This post provides you with a step-by-step-guide to supporting Dark Mode in your app.If you don't want to support Dark Mode for now, you can scroll directly to...

I recently got into the position of leading the technical interview when my client was searching for a new senior iOS developer. It's a challenging task to evaluate the skills and knowledge of another developer. So in this post, I want to...

Learning Xcode keyboard shortcuts is key to be a productive iOS developer. But memorizing a lot of shortcuts can be annoying, especially when starting out with Xcode.In this post, I will share a quick tip of how to integrate an efficient...

Using keyboard shortcuts is key of being productive and efficient when working with a development environment like Xcode. In this post, I will show you my favorite advanced and hidden Xcode shortcuts.If you are new to Xcode, you may want...

Using keyboard shortcuts is key of being productive and efficient when working with a development environment like Xcode.In this post, I share my most used basic Xcode shortcuts. If you are already working with Xcode for a long time, you...

Everybody who used RxSwift or in general reactive programming concepts in their projects knows it's advantages. Doing async work in a unified way, composing asynchronious operations, avoiding callback hell, writing more clean and readable...

I recently got into the position of leading the technical interview when my client was searching for a new senior iOS developer.It's a challenging task to evaluate the skills and knowledge of another developer. So in this post, I want to...