It can be a real challenge picking the right back end for your mobile app. For instance, Swift developers don’t have anything without needing to run on another language. Therefore, I decided to do a review of Vapor and whether it is really a right choice.
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In this episode we talk with Jason Anderson about Swift UI and reactive Swift post-WWDC 2019:
For beginners learning Swift, it can be a challenge to find the right Mac for developers. As with many things, I strongly believe you shouldn’t spend too much money until you know you will be making a real commitment to a project. Rightfully, this includes Swift and iOS development.
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Back in February, I did an episode of my podcast where I gave an overview of different backend options when developing a mobile application. In short, when looking for the right option, there is a plethora of choices. For instance, for Swift developers, Vapor has become an increasingly apt choice. Therefore, I decided to deep dive into Vapor and whether it is really a viable choice.
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Codable, introduced in Swift 4, provides a convenient and easy way to encode and decode JSON. However, not everything works out of the box.
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In this episode, Leo talks different backend technologies to use when building an iOS app or any other Apple device: when you need a cloud service, running on your own server, cloudkit, firebase, and more…
In this episode, Leo talks about the current state of Apple in 2019 and how it affects businesses and developers:
In the article Objective-C and Swift – Being Friendly, I talked about how I used Objective-C to integrate C++ libraries with Swift in Speculid. Today, I’m going to talk about the challenges of using C++ Libraries in your XCode project.
Continue reading → In this episode, Leo and Theresa talk about how the process of going from a customer’s idea to a proposal happens. These also include: what features to consider, how much involvement might be needed to get a proposal, budgets, timelines and more…
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Just as Swift 4.2 brought some interesting features, the release of Swift 5.0 will bring several as well such as raw strings, dynamically callable types, and compactMapValues for dictionaries. Of course, the biggest feature of Swift 5.0 is ABI stability.
The good news is you can try out these new features now by using the Swift 5.0 development branch.
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