A series of articles on SwiftUI application development — SwiftUI was introduced over three years ago at WWDC 19 and launched with iOS 13. Since that launch SwiftUI has generated a ton of interest, a bit of controversy, and a lot of articles. Including my own. I’ve written rather extensively on SwiftUI, on SwiftUI application architectures, and on issues…

How to overcome some of the limitations with Environment, EnvironmentObject, and other property wrappers. — I wrote an earlier article on how to write views that are “testable”. There I demonstrated a few of the ways one could break logic and other code out of a view body without having to create a full-fledged View Model. But SwiftUI’s Environment and EnvironmentObject property wrappers can make…

Creating a library? Make sure that it’s correct. And that it stays that way. — Recently I released Factory, my latest dependency injection system for Swift. Factory was created as a replacement for my earlier work, Resolver, and it was an attempt to take everything I’d learned from that project and see if I could make it better. Long story short. I could, and I…

Or why you shouldn’t pet that particular snake. — Everyone loves to write about how they’re using their favorite UIKit architecture with SwiftUI. And one of the more prominent design patterns/architectures out there is VIPER. View-Interactor-Presenter-Entity-Router. Don’t get me wrong. VIPER is a great software architecture, designed to solve quite a few of the classic and common problems seen…

Was WWDC a success? Or a failure? Or both? — Another Apple World Wide Develop Conference is over. We’ve had five intense days of keynotes and roadmaps, sessions, labs and lounges. Five days, during which we’ve been introduced to Apple’s latest operating system updates for iOS, iPad OS, macOS, and watchOS. We’ve seen new programing language and API changes and…

Not what we wanted… but is it what we need? — During the WWDC 2022 Keynote Apple introduced Stage Manager for iPadOS as new way for users to multitask and get things done. And, in typical Apple fashion, this ned feature managed to completely blow everyone’s expectations out of the water. Including my own. To put it bluntly. This isn’t the…

How Apple will (and won’t) bring macOS to the M1 iPad Pro. — It’s been a year since I wrote a story about WWDC 21 and how Apple lost a new M1-based iPad sale due to mismanaged expectations. To put it bluntly, iPad OS 15 wasn’t the OS upgrade I was looking for, and so I moved along. What I wanted, you see…

The price was high; was it worth it? — I’m an iOS developer and I’ve written quite a few articles here on Medium on Swift, SwiftUI, and iOS development, with a few opinion pieces on Apple software, hardware, and business practices thrown in for good measure. I also do some photography and video editing from time to time. But…