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Disclaimer: This post is not sponsored by Proxyman, nor am I affiliated with Proxyman in any way. I pay for my license myself, and this post is simply written as a guide to learning more about a tool that I find very important in the iOS Developer toolbox. Networking is an essential part of modern iOS applications. Most apps I’ve worked have some kind of networking component. Sometimes the networking layer involves user authentication, token refresh flows, and more. Other...

When you’re writing a conversion layer to transform your callback based code into code that supports async/await in Swift, you’ll typically find yourself using continuations. A continuation is a closure that you can call with the result of your asynchronous work. You have the option to pass it the output of your work, an object that conforms to Error, or you can pass it a Result. In this post, I won’t go in-depth on showing you how to convert your...

Swift’s async/await feature is an amazing way to improve the readability of asynchronous code on iOS 13 and newer. For new projects, this means that we can write more expressive, more readable, and easier to debug asynchronous code that reads very similar to synchronous code. Unfortunately, for some of us adopting async/await means that we might need to make pretty significant changes to our codebase if it’s asynchronous API is currently based on functions with completion handlers. Luckily, we can...

In my previous post you learned about some different use cases where you might have to choose between an async sequence and Combine while also clearly seeing that async sequence are almost always better looking in the examples I’ve used, it’s time to take a more realistic look at how you might be using each mechanism in your apps. The details on how the lifecycle of a Combine subscription or async for-loop should be handled will vary based on how...

Swift 5.5 introduces async/await and a whole new concurrency model that includes a new protocol: AsyncSequence. This protocol allows developers to asynchronously iterate over values coming from a sequence by awaiting them. This means that the sequence can generate or obtain its values asynchronously over time, and provide these values to a for-loop as they become available. If this sounds familiar, that’s because a Combine publisher does roughly the same thing. A publisher will obtain or generate its values (asynchronously)...

With Swift 5.6, Apple added a new keyword to the Swift language: any. If you see this in your code, you might think it’s similar to the some keyword but it’s not quite the same thing. Let’s take a look at the any keyword as it’s intended to be used: protocol Networking { func fetchPosts() async throws -> [Post] // ... } struct PostsDataSource { let networking: any Networking // ... } 💡Tip: If you’re not familiar with Swift’s some...