The surprise decision of Swift creator and long-time Xcode lead Chris Lattner to leave Apple was in large part driven by his frustration with the culture of secrecy at the company, say developer fr…...

The Model-View-VievModel pattern has recently become of fashion in the iOS development community. But it’s not without its controversies. I, for one, I have my reservations about some of the implementations of MVVM. But I also think that some of its ideas... (more…)

A few of the iOS testing tools I’ve used to make life a little easier and code more correct when developing apps in Swift. (more…)

This post describes the goals, release process, and estimated schedule for Swift 4.1. (more…)

Networking nowadays is a requirement for most modern iOS apps. This often takes the form of interfacing with a remote web service that provides data for an app. And this web service is often a REST API that returns data in the JSON format. But writing net... (more…)