Flying Apple

Sick of bookmarks in browser. So I want to keep track of nice blog posts and news related to Swift, Objective-C and Apple products in here.

Categorized with emojis.

• Swift - 🔶
• Objective-C - 🔷
• iOS - 📱
• watchOS - ⌚
• macOS - 🖥
• Server Side - 🔭
• Xcode and other tools - 🛠
• Marketing - 🎯
• Apple investments, stocks, business decisions etc. - 💲

Posts

• Soft Launching Your App - What It Is And Why You Should Do It - 17.02.2019 - 🎯
• Get Your iOS App Featured on the App Store with These 11 Tips - 17.02.2019 - 🎯
• iOS Performance Tricks To Make Your App Feel More Performant - 12.02.2019 - 📱
• Strong-typed Notifications in Swift - 12.02.2019 - 🔶📱
• Unbreakable reference cycles in Swift no one is talking about - 10.02.2019 - 🔶
• Data-Driven Table Views - 10.02.2019 - 📱🔶
• How to convert your Xcode plugins to Xcode extensions - 10.02.2019 - 🛠
• Adding External Display Support To Your iOS App Is Ridiculously Easy - 10.02.2019 - 📱
• Swift Tip: Unexpected Results from a Date Formatter - 03.02.2019 - 🔶
• Test doubles in Swift: dummies, fakes, stubs, and spies - 03.02.2019 - 🔶
• Unit testing retain cycles - 03.02.2019 - 🔶
• Server-side Swift: Making Canopy - 03.02.2019 - 🔭🔶
• iOS at Scale: Modularization of the Wayfair App - 03.02.2019 - 📱
• Xcode & Instruments: Measuring Launch time, CPU Usage, Memory Leaks, Energy Impact and Frame Rate - 03.02.2019 - 🛠
• Unleashing the power of asset catalogs and bundles on iOS - 03.02.2019 - 📱
• Multiple Inheritance in Swift - 03.02.2019 - 🔶
• 6 Winning Monetisation Strategies - 03.02.2019 - 🎯
• How to Leverage Apple Pre-order For Your iOS App Launch - 03.02.2019 - 🎯
• Delegates vs Closure Callbacks - 03.02.2019 - 🔶🔷
• What's inside the Derived Data folder? - 03.02.2019 - 📱
• Dynamic Features in Swift - 03.02.2019 - 🔶
• NSPredicate 💬 | Examples Cheatsheet - 03.02.2019 - 🔶
• Similar Prefixes - 03.02.2019 - 🔶🔷
• Debugging Tips&Tricks - 01.02.2019 - 🛠
• Debugging iOS network traffic - 01.02.2019 - 📱
• Implement Push Notification easily using CloudKit - 05.10.2018 - 📱⌚️
• Why #if DEBUG Conditional Should Be Avoided in Library Code - 30.09.2018 - 📱🔶
• Prefetching images size without downloading them [entirely] in Swift - 11.09.2018 - 🔶
• How to Build Swift Compiler-Based Tool? The Step-by-Step Guide - 19.08.2018 - 🔶
• An iOS alert view with a text field and a “smart” OK button - 19.08.2018 - 🔶📱
• Extension Approach to Keeping UITextFields in Sight - 12.08.2018 - 🔶
• Swift Style Guide - 04.06.2018 - 🔶
• Memory Management and Performance of Value Types - 29.05.2018 - 🔶
• The Laws of Core Data - 10.05.2018 - 📱🖥
• Reimplementation of Implicitly Unwrapped Optionals - 01.05.2018 - 🔶
• Simplifying UICollectionViewFlowLayout Delegate Method usage with Functional Programming - 22.04.2018 - 📱🔶
• Taming Build Variants with Xcode Configuration Files - 22.04.2018 - 🛠
• Care and Feeding of Xcode Configurations - 22.04.2018 - 🛠
• Why you should not name your @IBActions didTapButton - 20.04.2018 - 📱🖥
• A Collection of Interesting Swift Features - 24.03.2018 - 🔶
• Xcode’s Secret Performance Tests - 01.03.2018 - 🛠
• Trusting third party SDKs - 25.02.2018 - 📱🛠
• CloudKit: Structured Storage for Mobile Applications - 10.02.2018 - 🛠
• iOS Subscription Groups Explained - 08.02.2018 - 📱
• It Looks Like You Are Trying to Use a Framework - 08.02.2018 - 🔶🔷📱🖥
• Dependency Management for iOS projects with the Swift package manager - 08.02.2018 - 🔶📱
• The Ultimate Guide To Mobile In-App Purchases Optimization - 30.01.2018 - 📱🎯
• Patterns for Working With Associated Types - 15.12.2017 - 🔶
• Coordinator and FlowController - 19.11.2017 - 🔶📱
• Challenges of Supporting iPhone X - 06.11.2017 - 📱
• Data Detection in Swift - 06.11.2017 - 🔶
• @objc Warnings Upgrading To Swift 4 - 06.11.2017 - 🔶4
• Dictionary and Set Improvements in Swift 4.0 - 05.10.2017 - 🔶4
• DIY Prisma App with CoreML - 26.09.2017 - 📱11
• Measuring Compile Times in Xcode 9 - 26.09.2017 - 🛠🔶4
• Codable Enums - 26.09.2017 - 🔶4
• Swift 4 Weak References - 26.09.2017 - 🔶4
• Swift 4 Officially Released! - 26.09.2017 - 🔶4
• Generics in Swift 4 - 23.09.2017 - 🔶4
• WKWebView advanced tutorial (catch JS events, access properties etc...) - 28.07.2017 - 🔶📱
• Stack View Custom Spacing - 16.07.2017 - 🔶📱
• User Breakpoints in Xcode - 16.07.2017 - 🛠
• SSL certificate pinning in iOS applications - 26.06.2017 - 🔶📱
• How to open Deep Links, Notifications and Shortcuts - 26.06.2017 - 🔶📱
• CALayer And Auto Layout With Swift - 26.06.2017 - 🔶📱
• Screen Edges in iOS 11 - 26.06.2017 - 🔶📱
• Ultimate Guide to JSON Parsing With Swift 4 - 26.06.2017 - 🔶4
• How to create a Telegram bot with Swift using Vapor on Ubuntu / macOS - 18.04.2017 - 🔶 🔭
• 100% Coverage of Edge Cases: How to Safely Parse JSON - 17.04.2017 - 🔶
• TestFlight Update from Apple - 17.04.2017 - 💲
• You Probably Don't Want enumerated - 01.04.2017 - 🔶
• Avoiding primitive obsession in Swift - 01.04.2017 - 🔶
• System Level Breakpoints in Swift - 26.03.2017 - 🔶
• Kitura/iOS: Running a Web Server on your iPhone - 20.03.2017 - 🔶
• The Recipe for Singletons Removal - 19.03.2017 - 🔶 🔹
• Common unit testing techniques on iOS - 19.03.2017 - 🔶 📱
• Modern Attributed Strings with Attributed - 08.02.2017 - 🔶
• What's new in Swift 3.1 - 07.02.2017 - 🔶
• Waiting in XCTest - 05.02.2017 - 🔶
• Understanding memory leaks in closures - 05.02.2017 - 🔶
• Faster Mix-and-Match Builds with Precompiled Bridging Headers - 05.02.2017 - 🔶
• Additional Details on the New App Store Review Features - 05.02.2017 - 📱💲
• Pretty much every way to assign optionals - 05.02.2017 - 🔶
• Clean Code for Multiple Storyboards - 23.01.2017 - 🔶
• Swift Evolution Status - 23.01.2017 - 🔶
• Identifying Side Effects Using Swift - 23.01.2017 - 🔶
• Improving Optionals - 23.01.2017 - 🔶
• Naming Things in Swift - 22.01.2017 - 🔶
• Generic allValues for enums - 22.01.2017 - 🔶
• Crazy Fast Builds Using distcc - 22.01.2017 - 🛠
• Errorify String - 22.01.2017 - 🔶
• Unsafe Swift: Using Pointers And Interacting With C - 22.01.2017 - 🔶
• In-App Purchases in iOS With Swift 3 - 08.01.2017 - 🔶
• RxSwift Primer - 05.01.2017 - 🔶
• Protocols are more than Bags of Syntax - 05.01.2017 - 🔶
• Profiling your Swift compilation times - 25.12.2016 - 🔶
• Emptiness - 25.12.2016 - 🔶3
• CollectionOfOne - 12.12.2016 - 🔶
• Swift Method Dispatch - 12.12.2016 - 🔶
• Hiding Your Action and Share Extensions In Your Own Apps - 12.12.2016 - 🔶📱
• Guarding Against Long Compiles - 12.12.2016 - 🛠
• How to Prevent Memory Leaks in Swift Closures - 11.12.2016 - 🔶
• Use New Awesome iOS Features While Maintaining Backward Compatibility - 11.12.2016 - 🔶
• Swift Snippets - 11.12.2016 - 🔶
• Build Setting Reference aka Xcode Script variables - 07.12.2016 - 🛠
• Protocol Oriented Programming is Not a Silver Bullet - 28.11.2016 - 🔶
• Understanding Data Race Detection by Implementing it in Swift - 28.11.2016 - 🔶
• Meaningful Composite Errors - 20.11.2016 - 🔶
• Better Xcode Run Script Build Phases - 13.11.2016 - 🛠
• Date Math is Hard, Let's Do it Tomorrow - 13.11.2016 - 🔶
• Understanding code signing for iOS apps - 05.11.2016
• Firebase Tutorial: Real-time Chat - 03.11.2016 - 🔶
• iOS Security: Best Practices in Safeguarding User Data - 03.11.2016 - 📱
• How to Read the Swift Standard Library Source - 03.11.2016 - 🔶
• Useful details about underscore keyword in Swift - 🔶
• Unowned or Weak? Lifetime and Performance - 🔶
• iOS 10 Link Preview API in WKWebView - 03.11.2016 - 🔶
• A Beginner’s Guide to Automated UI Testing in iOS - 03.11.2016 - 📱 🔶
• In-App Purchase Promo Codes Now Available -  - 03.11.2016 - 💲
• Swift Profiling - 31.10.2016 - 🔶
• Enum Raw Values and Failable Initializers - 30.10.2016 - 🔶
• Touch Bar Basics - 30.10.2016 - 🔶🖥
• How to Do XCTestCase tearDown Wrong …and Right - 26.10.2016 - 🔶
• Flowing Text Around Images With Exclusion Paths - 26.10.2016 - 🔶
• Generic Range Algorithms - 26.10.2016 - 🔶
• Server APIs Work Group - 26.10.2016 - 🔶💲
• Testing UserDefaults - 26.10.2016 - 🔶
• Whole-Module Optimization in Swift 3 - 22.10.2016 - 🔶3
• Analysis of the Facebook.app for iOS - 21.10.2016 - 📱
• Speeding up Development Build Times With Conditional dSYM Generation - 21.10.2016 - 🛠
• Closures Capture Semantics, Part 1: Catch them all! - 19.10.2016 - 🔶
• Tips for Backwards Compatibility with iOS 10 Today Widgets - 19.10.2016 - 📱
• Measurement Basics - 19.08.2016 - 🔶3
• What do you do with Any? - 18.10.2016 - 🔶3
• Event Delivery on iOS: Part 1 - 16.10.2016 - 📱
• Google Blockly for iOS - 14.10.2016 - 📱
• Singletons - 14.10.2016 - 🔶
• Slicing - 14.10.2016 - 🔶
• Optional Non-Escaping Closures - 13.10.2016 - 🔶3
• Learn how to integrate Siri with your app thanks to Apple SiriKit - 12.10.2016 - 📱
• Real World Swift Performance - 11.10.2016 - 🔶
• Updating Strings for Swift 3 - 10.10.2016 - 🔶3
• Strings in Swift 3 - 07.10.2016 - 🔶3
• What Do You Do with Any? - 07.10.2016 - 🔶3
• Split View Controller Display Modes - 07.10.2016 - 📱 🔶
• Smooth Scrolling in Buffer for iOS: How (and Why) We Implemented AsyncDisplayKit - 07.10.2016 - 📱 🔷
• Silicon Valley comes to Naples: Apple prepares to open Italian academy - 06.10.2016 - 💲
• App Groups and iMessage Extensions for iOS 10 - 06.10.2016 - 🔶 📱
• Edge Cases with Background Downloads - 06.10.2016 - 📱
• Realm Mobile Platform - 04.10.2016 - 📱
• Search Ads Now Available - 04.10.2016 - 📱 💲
• Swift Option Sets - 30.09.2016 - 🔶3
• Updating NSURLSession Calls to Swift 3.0 - 30.09.2016 - 🔶3
• Swifty Delegates - 30.09.2016 - 🔶3
• Swift 3 Access Controls - 30.09.2016 - 🔶3
• Preparing Your iOS App for Extensions - 28.09.2016 - 📱
• Token Authentication Now Available for Push Notifications - Apple - 25.09.2016 - 📱⌚🖥
• New subscriptions data and reports are now available - Apple - 25.09.2016 - 💲
• Memory Graph Debugger Tips - 25.09.2016 - 🛠
• openURL Deprecated in iOS10 - 24.09.2016 - 📱
• Swift API Design Guidelines - 23.09.2016 - 🔶
• Swift 3 and Declarative Programming - 23.09.2016 - 📱🔶
• Pushing the Envelope with iOS 10 Notifications - Realm - 23.09.2016 - 📱🔶
• Handling Dates with Swift 3 - 23.09.2016 - 🔶3
• Function Naming in Swift 3 - 19.09.2016 - 🔶3
• Offering Subscriptions by Apple - 16.09.2016 - 📱
• Auto Layout and Alignment Rectangles - 16.09.2016 - 🔶3
• It's Now or Never - 16.09.2016 - 🔶3
• Swift 3.0 Released! - 16.09.2016 - 🔶
• How to Unit test your Network Layer in iOS - 16.09.2016 - 🔶 📱
• Working with JSON in Swift by Apple - 16.09.2016 - 🔶
• Escaping and Nonescaping Closures in Swift 3 - 16.09.2016 - 🔶3
• How to generate haptic feedback with UIFeedbackGenerator - 16.09.2016 - 🔶 📱
• The Savvy App Store Submission Checklist - 16.09.2016 - 📱
• Migrating Code Signing Configurations to Xcode 8 - 16.09.2016 - 📱 🛠
• A (mostly) comprehensive list of Swift 3.0 and 2.3 changes - 16.09.2016 - 🔶
• Getting Ready for App Transport Security in 2017 - 16.09.2016 - 📱
• App Store Optimization in 7 steps - 16.09.2016 - 📱 🎯
• Notifications in iOS 10 - 16.09.2016 - 📱 🔶
• Xcode Visual Memory Debugger - 16.09.2016 - 🛠
• IB Free: Living Without Interface Builder and Loving It - 16.09.2016 - 🔶
• Swift App Bundle Sizes - Davit Owens - 29.08.2016 - 🔶
• Structs and Mutation in Swift - Chris Eidhof - 26.08.2016 - 🔶3
• Using Redux with MVVM in iOS - Goksel Koksal - 26.08.2016 - 📱
• MVVM is Quite Okay at What It Is Supposed to Do - Christian Tietze - 24.08.2016 - 📱
• Pattern Matching in Swift - Cosmin Pupaza - 24.08.2016 - 🔶3
• Advanced & Practical Enum Usage in Swift - Benedikt Terhechte - 23.08.2016 - 🔶 2.2

Shortcuts & Useful commands & Tools

• Swiff - Human readable time diffs on lines of output when running - 03.02.2019 - 🔶
• How to use Wireless Debugging on Xcode 9 - 21.09.2017 - 🛠
• How to show the duration of builds in Xcode - 04.05.2017