During a recent debugging session, I came across an Optional of an Optional of an entity. 😱 Well, I've read about this in theory but experiencing it in practice is definitely interesting. Intro first. Optional Basics Optional is a (generic) type tha...
(Reader beware: The use of @ doesn't constitute links to Twitter handles or Hashnode mentions 🤕) Attributes A Swift attribute attributes a declaration or type. Seriously. Merriam Webster defines an attribute as a quality, character, or characteristi...
Structures A Struct is a Swift language construct that can be used to encapsulate state and behaviour. It's the recommended way of storing state and modeling behaviour. What's the alternative you ask? Classes. The two are similar in many ways but als...
Premise What does a Product listing, Shopping cart, Orders list, Chat messages' list, Contacts list, Maps, etc have in common? They are all scrollable content: content that can't fit on the screen at once. All these are built using one underlying ui ...
I've had the opportunity to work on Android for a while now building a career on it. In 2017, I got the privilege to dive head on into the iOS waters when I built an MVP app for my previous company. Back then, I learnt by trying to map the concepts o...
Alamofire is an elegant HTTP networking library de facto in iOS development; perhaps in the same league as Retrofit in Android programming. It’s built to be asynchronous from ground up as it uses Apple’s URL loading system thus full of handlers (chec...