Build SwiftUI apps faster by choosing the right views — SwiftUI is fun. Personally, I really enjoy building complex and beautiful views with Apple’s new declarative UI framework. But before you start building your own custom views, it’s a good idea to get used to the things that SwiftUI already provides you with. …

Develop your SwiftUI views faster by utilizing the powerful preview feature — With the release of SwiftUI, Apple hasn’t just provided us with a new beautiful and lightweight API to create user interfaces but also has introduced Xcode Previews. We can now have our view code and its visual presentation side by side. …

Know the importance of naming your loops — In my opinion, Swift is a beginner-friendly programming language. Just think about a few things we have/don’t have in Swift: We don’t have to handle pointers that point to memory addresses. There is automatic reference counting (ARC), which takes care of counting the references to objects and releases them automatically…

Master one of the most fundamental building blocks in programming — All programming languages are unique. They differ at least in some respect from all their peers. Swift, for example, has optionals, typealiases, and opaque return types. However, there are some basic building blocks that nearly every language uses. Conditionals allow you to run a certain part of your code only…

Master Xcode and build apps faster — As software developers, we not only love to build applications, but we also love to find and use the best tools available in order to do so. As iOS developers, we are very lucky. With Swift, we have a modern programming language in our tool belt. …

Should you use SwiftUI or UIKit in your next project? — SwiftUI was introduced at WWDC 2018 and has been supported by iOS since version 13. Usually, two years are enough for us, the iOS developer community, to start using a feature in production code. …

Swift is a beautiful language that was carefully designed and has greatly evolved since it was announced back in 2014. When you compare Swift to more traditional programming languages you can easily find elements they have in common but they are done in a specific way. A more Swifty-way. Today…

Becoming a good software developer is hard. It takes years of dedicated learning to really get a grasp on all the paradigms that you need to know about. You have to dive deep into your programming language to fully understand how certain features work and get ahead of the game…

Swift is a statically typed programming language which means that the compiler needs to be able to figure out the type of each variable, constant, or property at compile time. However, thanks to Swift’s type inference, it is not always necessary to explicitly specify the type. Today, I want to…