It’s hard to believe that Upside’s iOS app launched just seven months ago. From the beginning we wrote the whole thing in Swift, with a… (more…)

In order to work with C APIs, we sometimes need to convert Swift object references to and from raw pointers. Swift's Unmanaged struct is the standard API for handling this. Today, I'd like to talk about what it does and how to use it. (more…)

UISearchBarFontKit - An extension for UISearchBar that makes it effortless to set the font, which is otherwise convoluted. (more…)

An article aimed to highlight the main beauties that programming language Swift has. Here I would love to start from a quick quiz. Question: What is the programming language the iOS apps are written on? a)C# b)Objective-C c)Swift Apparently if you have ... (more…)

I like Swift. We’re using it for new products like Linea, which was written from the ground up with the new syntax. In spite of this, I still consider the language harmful. The best way to understand the issues is by imagining that you’re an iOS developer... (more…)