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Creating and Reusing the Code Snippet in Xcode

Developers often run into situations where they need to use a similar snippet of code again and again. It's a lot of effort trying to find it in the codebase, from a random blog or the StackOverflow. Xcode offers a way to save any code snippet and later retrieve it

Drag and Drop on iOS using Swift

Drag and Drop on iOS using Swift

Hello folks, it's been a while since I wrote my last article. Today we're going to learn how to implement drag and drop feature on iOS using Swift. To see in advance what we're going to achieve by the end of this tutorial, please watch the following video, > To summarize

Xcode symbolic breakpoints - Break at method call

Xcode symbolic breakpoints - Break at method call

Today I am going to write about the big advanced debugging feature of LLDB. I am calling it advanced because I myself didn't know about it for a long time. It allows you to add a symbolic breakpoint which will halt the execution at a specific point so that you

How to get the iOS App Metadata in Swift

Working on a new app could be exciting. However, there are certain things or information which you might want to get as a part of the core feature. One of them is the app metadata. This may contain numerous values - Some of them essential some - not so useful.

When to weakify

When to weakify

Today I am going to talk about one of the discussion prone topics on iOS platforms. Detecting memory leaks and when to apply weakify. The topic came up while I was recently performing a code review and there were some discussions on whether there is a memory leak or not.

Implementing Monty-Hall problem

Monty-Hall problem

Implementing Monty-Hall problem

Today, I am going to write about the Monty-Hall problem simulation I ran programmatically. What is this Monty-Hall problem you may ask? According to Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem], > The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser, in the form of a probability puzzle, loosely based

Closure Trick in Swift

Today I learned a closure trick in Swift. Usually when expression is assigned to a variable on left, it is evaluated instantly. For example, let value = complexCalculation() func complexCalculation() -> String { return "Something useful" } In this example, when value is assigned a result of complexCalculation() method, it is called immediately.

Comparing VIPER vs. MVVM

Recently I started playing with VIPER architecture. Although I was quite hesitant trying it out, it turns out it's not all that bad as I expected. It'e certainly better than traditional MVC iOS architecture in terms of testability and separation of concerns. However, I found it consistently annoying to have

Indirect enums - Swift 3.0

Enums are one of my favorite parts in any language. With Swift they've got extra functionality such as adding functions, associated values and Indirect Enums. So what are indirect enums? I have learned enums in other language, but never came across any language which offers similar functionality. At least not

Equality and Comparison with custom objects in Swift (Equatable protocol)

Few weeks ago I ran into frustrating problem. I was dealing with custom objects in Swift. (Actually struct with properties). They were being stored in an array. Now, this array was going to undergo frequent activity due to user action such as adding new elements and avoiding duplicates. So while

Making a crater in UIView with CALayer

Making a crater in UIView with CALayer

Although title sounds horrible, believe me - It's not that bad. This is a trick I learned from StackOverflow post [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16512761/calayer-with-transparent-hole-in-it] . Although seemingly innocuous, it took me a while to figure out given the view, how to puncture any shape into it. To make it

Pass data with iOS Notifications - Swift 3.0

We all have used Notifications on iOS. (I would not call them NSNotifications though, since this post is about Swift 3.0). I used them long ago when I was yet a newcomer. They were easy way to transport information among different parts of program. Although easy, Notifications can have

Swift - Testing singletons

In this post we will see how you can test swift singletons easily. > Disclaimer: I haven't discovered it myself, but I found it a while back on StackOverflow while looking for how to test Swift singletons. So thanks to the anonymous person for the wonderful solution Say, I want to

Swift testing with protocols

In this post, we shall see how protocols work with unit testing. Say, you have a downloader class DownloadFileClass for fetching network data. It follows the protocol DownloadFileProtocol. The whole class and protocol looks like this. protocol DownloadFileProtocol { func downloadFile(with name: String, completion: (String) -> ()) } class DownloadFileClass { var downloadedFile:

Search and Replace in Xcode with Regular Expressions

Recently I ran into a problem where I wanted to search for a pattern in the Xcode project and replace the found string with another one. In the past, I had had a hard time dealing with Regular expressions. This time I decided I was going to learn more about

Manually scrolling UIScrollView (iOS/Swift)

Recently while working with one of my libraries [https://github.com/jayesh15111988/JKAutolayoutReadyScrollView/], I realized that I wanted to manually scroll UIScrollView in any direction. (Viz. Top, Right, Bottom, Left). It took me quite time to find examples online. But I take this moment to compile them together. Since Swift

iOS - Autolayout and Resizing UILabel (iOS/Swift)

Last week I had weird issue while applying autolayout rules to UITableViewCell. TableViewCell has two components attached to it. 1. An UIImageView 2. Two variable length UILabels stacked vertically on the top of each other And I wanted tableView cells to look like this, Nice, isn't it? Let's look at

Thinking MVVM way with Objective-C

Thinking MVVM way with Objective-C

Today I am going to write about one of my most favorite iOS patterns lately. MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel). They say MVC has been in iOS realm for quite a bit. However, if you ask me, MVVM is going to be a big. Advantage being, you can create viewModel once and then

Simulate View Controller Transitions - iOS/Objective-C

We all have dealt with push transition of UINavigationController as well as presentViewController and dismissViewController transitions of typical UIViewController. However, today we will learn how to emulate the transition from one viewController to another without moving to a new viewController. The technique is quite simple and I will only explain

iOS Add spacing to line of text - Swift

This week while working on one of our internal apps (Again), I came across an interesting problem to add spacing to line labels. I never knew iOS could do it. My first and very naive solution was to have multiple UILabels and arrange them vertically. But this would cause a

Add image to UILabel with Swift (iOS)

Add image to UILabel with Swift (iOS)

This week while working on one of our client apps I came across interesting problem of embedding images with text. To give a little idea, we wanted to display text somewhat like emojis embedded in the message. Doesn't that look cool? It definitely does. Initially I drew the conclusion of

Xcode - Quickly fix the fixable errors

Today I am going to write about a neat trick I learned about automatically fixing fixable error in Xcode. We usually come across the error which are easily fixable. These include typo'ed method/parameter names, missing semicolons, failure to close brackets. Speaking of Swift, they are also errors when we

Swifty UITableViewController with generics and structs

> Disclaimer - This post along with code supporting is inspired by Chris Eidhof's talk at trySwift [https://realm.io/news/tryswift-chris-eidhof-table-view-controllers-swift/]. I took the liberty to slightly update the code as per my own logic. There is no difference from the original source as long as user facing functionality is

iOS Testing - Testing asynchronous code (Part 4)

This is the part 4 in the series of articles on 'Unit Testing on iOS'. Below is the list of all articles and respective links to them. 1. iOS Unit Tests - Testing models creation (Part 1) [https://jayeshkawli.ghost.io/working-on-ios-unit-tests-objective-c/] 2. iOS Unit Testing - Testing View Controller

iOS Unit Testing - Switching method implementations with OCMock (Part 3)

This is the part 3 in the series of articles on 'Unit Testing on iOS'. Below is the list of all articles and respective links to them. 1. iOS Unit Tests - Testing models creation (Part 1) [https://jayeshkawli.ghost.io/working-on-ios-unit-tests-objective-c/] 2. iOS Unit Testing - Testing View Controller