Tag: iOS

All the articles with the tag "iOS".

• Automatic Observation Tracking in UIKit and AppKit: The Feature Apple Forgot to Mention

  Published: 11 Jun, 2025

  • 8 min read

  Discover how iOS 18's hidden automatic observation tracking brings SwiftUI-like reactive programming to UIKit and AppKit, making your UI code cleaner and more maintainable.

• Migrating 700+ Tests to Swift Testing: A Real-World Experience

  Published: 6 Jun, 2025

  • 13 min read

  How I migrated over 700 tests from XCTest to Swift Testing across two projects, with AI assistance and systematic refinement

• Fixing keyboardShortcut in SwiftUI

  Published: 31 Jan, 2021

  • 7 min read

  Debugging and fixing a SwiftUI keyboardShortcut bug that fails when mixing SwiftUI with UIKit through reverse engineering and LLDB analysis.

• Supporting Both Tap and Long Press on a Button in SwiftUI

  Published: 27 Jan, 2021

  • 6 min read

  Creating a SwiftUI button that supports both tap and long-press gestures by bridging to UIKit when SwiftUI's gesture system fails on Catalyst.

• Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective

  Published: 28 Nov, 2020

  • 8 min read

  A comprehensive evaluation of the M1 MacBook Air as a development machine, covering Xcode performance, compatibility issues, and the transition challenges for developers.

• Disabling Keyboard Avoidance in SwiftUI's UIHostingController

  Published: 21 Sep, 2020

  • 6 min read

  Fixing unwanted keyboard avoidance behavior in UIHostingController using runtime dynamic subclassing to override keyboard notification handling methods.

• The State of SwiftUI

  Published: 13 Sep, 2020

  • 7 min read

  Testing SwiftUI's production readiness in iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur through Apple's Fruta sample app, revealing performance issues and platform-specific limitations.

• Logging in Swift

  Published: 24 Aug, 2020

  • 15 min read

  An in-depth exploration of Apple's unified logging system and the promising OSLogStore API that Apple removed from iOS 14 at the last minute.

• Building with Swift Trunk Development Snapshots

  Published: 12 Jun, 2020

  • 4 min read

  A troubleshooting guide for building with Swift trunk development snapshots, documenting compilation errors, linker issues, and their solutions.

• How to Fix LLDB: Couldn't IRGen Expression

  Published: 4 Jun, 2020

  • 10 min read

  Solving the mysterious LLDB 'Couldn't IRGen expression' error by investigating Swift module path serialization and discovering that removing dSYM bundles fixes debugging issues.