The curious case of FileManager’s 512 error on iOS
Jan 12, 2021, 6:23 AM
A fellow developer, trying to debug a complex problem. Credit: UnsplashFor many years of having our App in the App Store, a particular bug alluded us most mischievously. Various reports would come in that distilled down to a simple...
Monitoring a folder for changes in iOS
Feb 4, 2020, 12:55 PM
Photo by Andrew Pons on UnsplashDetecting changes to a folder in iOS using SwiftIn this post, you will learn how you can observe a specific folder for new/deleted/updated files. Some of this code is adapted from Apple sample code that is...
How Our iOS Team Streamlined Our Processes Through Continuous Integration
May 14, 2019, 3:49 AM
Delivering code is how developers present their hard work to the world and this makes it, in my opinion, one of the most important parts of our job. However, knowing when code will be ready to deliver can be hard. That’s why our team...
iOS @ Over: 3 months into the iOS Platform Team
Apr 23, 2019, 11:59 AM
The platform team at workA while ago we wrote about starting an iOS platform team at Over (read it here). From the start, we decided to tackle various tasks that the iOS team doesn’t always have time to look at. We thought, now would be a...
iOS @ Over: Starting a Platform Team
Feb 28, 2019, 9:11 AM
Photo by boostinjay on UnsplashThe challenge that all scaling teams face is in dealing with the growing pile of technical debt and performance problems. With a few people in a team, it is easier to coordinate on refactoring and knowledge...
A Background Repeating Timer in Swift
Feb 26, 2019, 11:23 AM
Background timers are a very usefool tool in one’s developer toolbox. Most of the time when we want to schedule a repeating unit of work we consult NSTimer . Problem is, NSTimer requires an active run loop which is not always readily...
An easier way to dequeue cells in iOS
Jun 21, 2018, 6:44 AM
Using the power of generics to improve cell registration and reuse 🤓The problem we are trying to solveWhenever we have to deal withUICollectionView or UITableView, we need to register a cell before we use it,...
Limit your pull requests and see what happens. This is our story.
Jun 1, 2018, 11:20 AM
A problem many developer teams face is an increasing number of pull requests. Have you ever heard yourself say “The work is done, it just needs to be reviewed”, only to have it merged days (or weeks 😱) later?Seem familiar?Believe it or...