PinnedFun Times Creating an Inventory App with SwiftUIDown the Rabbit Hole Continues This is the Way The deeper my dives / experience / experimentations go with SwiftUI the more I appreciate its efficiencies and strides for a better developer experience. Granted, there are still shortcomings when compared to it’s predecessor, UIKit, the tone / tenor has been set…this is the way. It…Swiftui2 min read
Mar 3, 2021Down the SwiftUI Rabbit Hole ContinuesThis is the Way — The deeper my dives / experience / experimentations go with SwiftUI the more I appreciate its efficiencies and strides for a better developer experience. Granted, there are still shortcomings when compared to it’s predecessor, UIKit, the tone / tenor has been set.Swiftui2 min read
Jan 5, 2021The Days of Future PastSyncing and Grouping Requests — Pre iOS 13 if one wanted to run and sync a group of asynchronous requests they had their choice of the following: DispatchSemaphore DispatchGroup NSOperation / NSOperationQueue While each of these techniques provide very powerful versitality, implementing thread-safe, edgecase / error proof code, in many instances, isn’t trivial. Most of…Combine2 min read
Mar 24, 2020Fun Times Creating an Email Client with SwiftUIThe Same, but Different In order to “round out” my SwiftUI journey I decided to create a MacOS email prototype. The differences between this project and the BankingUI / DashboardUI where much less than I thought. Though this is just a prototype and not a full fledge, it gave me an insight as to…Macos1 min read
Mar 19, 2020Significant Other 2.1 ReleasedBack in September I had planned to have 2.1 released by Christmas, unfortunately due to deadlines from my day job and a few other side hustles I didn’t get around the updates I wanted until a month ago. But alas, it is here. Dark Mode Dark Mode arrived last September to much…I OS2 min read
Feb 28, 2020Fun Times Creating a Dashboard with SwiftUIA(lways) B(e) C(hallenged) “We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.” — Archilochus Who doesn’t love a good challenge? Writing iOS apps everyday provides it’s own sets of interesting problems to solve. Some for me are easier to solve than others, but I’ve been…Swiftui3 min read
Feb 18, 2020Creating Custom Views with SwiftUIBankingUI with SwiftUI As I continue my journey on learning and mastering SwiftUI I came across Ghani’s nice wallet / banking UI and decided to recreate it. It isn’t 100% pixel to pixel perfect, but my goal was to focus on SwiftUI concepts and strategies rather than perfection. I had a lot fun…Swiftui1 min read
Jan 24, 2020Using Delegate Pattern with CombineThe Tried and True Delegate Pattern The delegate pattern has long been very prominent on Apple’s platforms. Delegation is used for everything from handling table view events using UITableViewDelegate, to modifying cache behavior using NSCacheDelegate. The core purpose of the delegate pattern is to allow an object to communicate back to its owner in a decoupled…Combine1 min read
Jan 14, 2020Spokestack Framework and RSS Sample AppGood Clients are Hard to Find As someone how has been in a position to hire people, the old saying “Good people are hard to find” is more than a truth, but an axiom. What is harder to find when doing consulting are good clients with interesting problems to solve. The meeting with the CEO of…I OS2 min read
Sep 29, 2019Mixing UIKit and SwiftUILike most iOS / MacOS developers, I saw SwiftUI as one of the biggest announcements since Swift itself back in 2014. It allows a developer to move away from Storyboards / IB, as well as, write UI code that isn’t weighted with step-by-step directions on how the UI should display…I OS5 min read
