Debugging network traffic with Charles
When you perform a URL Request in your app, you typically configure the request in your code and when it’s all set up you pass it off to a URLSession data task, and the request Read more…
Refactoring a networking layer to use Combine
In the past two weeks I have introduced you to Combine and I’ve shown you in detail how Publishers and Subscribers work in Combine. This week I want to take a more practical route and Read more…
Tips to ask better questions
As developers, we all get stuck sometimes. When this happens we start searching for solutions on Google, or we ask questions on Stackoverflow, on the Swift forums, the iOS Developers Slack community or other places. Read more…
Understanding Combine’s publishers and subscribers
In my previous post about Combine, I introduced you to Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) and I’ve shown you can subscribe to Combine publishers using the sink(receiveCompletion:receiveValue:) method. I also showed you how you can transform Read more…
Five tips to write better todos in Xcode
We all write the dreaded // TODO: and // FIXME: comments every once in a while. Sometimes we do it because we know our code can be better but we’re not sure how, other times Read more…
An introduction to Combine
The Combine framework. Silently introduced, yet hugely important for iOS. It didn’t get any attention during the big Keynote at WWDC 2019, but as soon as folks were in the sessions they knew that Combine Read more…