iOS 13 - Fresh Beginning

How to create a native iOS WebSocket client and connect it to the server

In the last post, we saw how to create a web socket server using NWConnection. In this post, we will complete that article by learning how to create an equivalent client which can talk to this server on the specified port. As mentioned in my other article, we will use

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Creating WebSocket server on iOS using NWConnection

In the last couple of blog posts, we saw how to write a client-side code to handle web socket connections using native and third-party support. In this post, I will go over creating a web socket server on iOS in Swift using newly introduced NWConnection in iOS 13. New ProjectTo

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WebSockets on iOS using URLSessionWebSocketTask

iOS added support for WebSocket starting iOS 13 and they announced it in WWDC2019. Before that, developers had to rely on third-party libraries such as Starscream or SwiftWebSocket. Now with native support, it all becomes quite easy to add on without adding third-party overhead. Previously, I wrote about using WebSockets

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How to use WebSockets on iOS using Swift

From Wikipedia, WebSocket is a computer communications protocol, providing full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection. Although very useful on Web using JavaScript, we don't use it a lot on iOS platform. From MDN, The WebSocket API is an advanced technology that makes it possible to open a two-way

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iOS 13 - Building App Store Layout using UICollectionView Composite Layout on iPad

As I mentioned in in earlier posts, recently I have been playing with new UICollectionView APIs introduced at WWDC 2019. 2 Weeks ago, I started my ambitious project to re-create an App Store using Collection View and new Composite Layout APIs. When I was done, I recorded two videos with

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New Collection View APIs in iOS 13 - UICollectionView Compositional Layout

This blog post is based on the Session 215 - Advances in Collection View Layout from WWDC 2019. I would highly recommend to go through this video to learn basics about new collection view APIs and basics of Compositional layout on iOS.In Session 215 of WWDC 2019, Apple introduced