OrchardNest

In this post, I’ll discuss how I try to continously extract functionality from my various app projects into public, open-source libraries. I’ll reason around why I think this is good (and fun), the steps involved, some perhaps unexpected...

In this post, I’ll discuss the development of my new KeyboardKit app for iOS and iPadOS. I’ll go through my original vision, the actual outcome as well as a bunch of findings, problems etc.

In this post, I’ll list a couple of git commands that I found useful when cleaning up a very unstructured git tag history. This post is primarily meant to be a brain dump for my own use, but if you find the information useful, that’s great.

In this post, we’ll look at how to distribute closed-source XCFrameworks-based products with the Swift Package Manager (SPM). The information is based on a real product that I just launched and goes through project setup, package...

In this post, I’ll discuss why I have decided to stop supporting UIKit-based keyboards in KeyboardKit 4.0.

In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to use MockingKit to mock protocols and classes. We can then use this technique in unit tests and to fake not yet implemented logic.

In this post, I’ll provide a solution to the dreaded the server ssh fingerprint failed to verify error that may bite you when you add an SPM dependency to an app from a private server over SSH, using an IP address and port.

In this post, I’ll discuss how I built a movie-streaming app for iOS and iPadOS in SwiftUI, for the Swedish video streaming service Cineasterna.

In this post, I’ll discuss how I built a movie-streaming app for tvOS in SwiftUI, for the Swedish public library video streaming service Cineasterna.

In this post, we’ll look at an easier way to manage full screen covers in SwiftUI, that lets us reuse functionality, reduce state management and present many covers in the same way.

In this post, we’ll look at a way to validate app localizations and integrate it into Fastlane and any CI processes you may have.

In this post, we’ll look at various ways to improve readability and writeability of Swift code by introducing extensions to Swift’s native types.

In this post, we’ll look at how to easily manage and present toasts in SwiftUI, in a way that borrows heavily from the sheet and alert approaches discussed in earlier posts.

UPDATE! This is now a built-in feature in SwiftUI, so I have removed it from SwiftUIKit and will not maintain it anymore. This post is only kept for reference.

In this post, we’ll look at an easier way to manage alerts in SwiftUI, that lets us reuse functionality, reduce state management and present many different alerts in the same way.

In this post, we’ll look at an easier way to manage sheets in SwiftUI, that lets us reuse functionality, reduce state management and present many different sheets in the same way.

In this post, we’ll look at how to uniquely identify the current device. We’ll look at different way of persisting the unique identifier to make it available even if the app is uninstalled.

In this post, we’ll look at how to read from and write to the keychain on iOS devices. We’ll look at a great library for this and how we can make it more abstract.

In this post, we’ll discuss how to url encode strings. We’ll then create an extension that let’s us do this easier and with less code.

In this post, we’ll discuss how to replace all occurences of a string within another string. We’ll then create an extension that allows for easier case-sensitive replacements.

In this post, we’ll discuss how to check if a String contain another String. We’ll then create an extension that allows for easier case-insensitive checks.

In this post, we’ll discuss how to Base64 encode and decode strings in Swift. We’ll then create extensions that make this a lot easier and more readable.

In this post, we’ll create string representations of numeric types in Swift and extend these types with convenience functionality to make them easier to use.