Using SwiftUI and WidgetKit to Make Your App Content Indispensable
By using a combination of SwiftUI and WidgetKit, you can increase the visibility of your app’s content and enhance
Andrew Jaffee
Avid and well-published author and software developer now specializing in iOS mobile app development in Objective-C and Swift. He earned a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science.
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Deep Dive into Swift 5.5's Async/await Concurrency Model
In designing the async/await construct, Apple is hoping to increase the readability, and thus maintainability, of implementing concurrency/parallelism
Deploying Mac Apps Outside App Store: How to Remember User Intent for Folders
When a macOS user specifically grants a sandboxed app access to a file/folder outside of that app’s container,
Using Packages to create an installer for distributing macOS apps outside of the Mac App Store
macOS developers will most likely be faced with the requirement to build an installer for apps they want to — or
Beyond App Sandbox: Going outside of the macOS app container
Did you know that a macOS app can read and write outside of its container when sandboxed? Did you know
Beyond the Sandbox: Signing and distributing macOS apps outside of the Mac App Store
Since the advent of OS X Mojave and especially Catalina and the requirement for app notarization, some of us old-time
Using App Groups for communication between macOS/iOS apps from the Same Vendor
Apple’s “app group” technology allows a collection of macOS (or iOS) apps from the same development team, developer, vendor,
How to Use Git Pull Requests to Improve Code Quality and Developer Participation
Today, we’ll talk about a feature of several well-known Git tools that I prefer to call a “merge request,
How to Use Xcode Instrument to Optimize Your Swift Code
I still run across curmudgeons who flat out reject techniques like object-oriented programming (especially inheritance and polymorphism), protocols and protocol-oriented
Dividing and Conquering Your Xcode Projects with Targets
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to leverage Xcode targets to control the massive complexity involved in building
Best Practices for Building Swift Classes
In this tutorial, I’m going to give you some best practices that will help you safely and effectively use
Protocol-oriented Data Structures in Swift: A Generic Doubly Linked List
Let’s talk about creating a list on steroids, i.e., a generic doubly linked list in Swift. For our