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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Last week I spoke at the LaDev in Ann Arbor on what it takes to go out on your own as a freelancing software developer and entrepreneur.
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On October 11, I spoke at Ann Arbor Cocoaheads at ArborMoon and gave some swift development tips. Specifically based my experience developing Speculid for macOS as well as Try!Swift New York.
There are times where Objective-C is still necessary for Swift development. For instance, with one such app I’ve built in Swift, Speculid, I needed to bring Objective-C code in. With the introduction of C++ libraries in version 2.0, Objective-C became necessary. Luckily there are ways to make both Objective-C and Swift work together in a friendly fashion.