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iOS development trends in review

2022 has come to an end, and it is a perfect time for retrospective analysis. Today I want to review trends in iOS development over the past year that I notice while building my own apps or consulting others.

Code

Enum explained in-depth with code examples in Swift

Enum usage in Swift explained. How to use If case and fallthrough. How to make them equatable and how to iterate over all cases.

Accessing UIHostingController from a SwiftUI view

While I was working on a mixed UIKit and SwiftUI project, I needed a way to access the UIHostingController within the SwiftUI view so that I could use it for interacting with other UIKit methods. T…

Using Guards in Swift to Avoid the Pyramid of Doom

The If statement is not the only conditional statement in Swift, nor is it the most used. Guard statements are more common and solve specific problems.

Unwrap Swift optional value in Switch case

Learn how to test for unwrapped optional values in a switch statement.

Enable and Disable SwiftUI List rows deletion on a specific row

The onDelete modifier enables item deletion on every row. Let's learn how to disable this on particular rows.

News & Updates

Misc

What are an NFT and the ERC-721 standard?

The non-fungible tokens, or in short NFTs, have one the most influential roles in the crypto and Web3 scene. These are digital assets that can represent digital art, virtual collectibles, assets in games, and more. Ethereum Foundation introduced the ERC-721 standard in 2017, which helped all the crypto wallets, brokers, and protocols to use this feature in a translatable way between any crypto solution. In this post, we will look more deeply into the ERC-721 standard and explore how it is used in the Solidity programming language for the Ethereum blockchain.