A couple of years ago, all of the iOS apps were small containing less than 10 screens. The codebase was small, storyboards were working excellent, and it was easy to maintain your project. From an… (more…)

Let’s take a look at a few different ways to add plugin support to a type or library, and how doing so can enable a system to become a lot more decoupled and flexible. (more…)

Swift was introduced a couple of years ago at Apple's 2014 WWDC. Over the years I analyzed iOS to measure how many built-in applications were using Swift. iOS 9 released in 2015 included a single application written with Swift: Calculator. Since then this... (more…)

Chinese officials have made no secret out of their desire to become the world’s dominant player in the technology industry. As we’ve written about before a... (more…)

For the 150th weekly article on this site, and the last one before the end of the decade, let’s look back at how Swift has fundamentally changed the way apps for Apple’s platforms are built, and where things might be going from here. (more…)