Swift 4.1 Conditional Conformance in Unit Tests

April 24, 2018 | Swift, Generics, Architecture, iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

In this tutorial, we'll look at a case study of using conditional conformance in unit tests. The problem we'll be solving is a common one. You have a set of stubbed JSON responses and you want to test that they are serialized correctly into Swift model types. Some responses return a single model resource while others return a collection.

Working With Private CocoaPods

March 6, 2018 | Swift, Dependency Management, Architecture, iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

In the last tutorial, we built a cross-platform Swift framework. If you want to reuse your frameworks in other projects, the next step is to support dependency managers. The three most popular right now are CocoaPods, Carthage, and Apple's Swift Package Manager.

Making A Cross-Platform Swift Framework

February 20, 2018 | Swift, Dependency Management, Architecture, iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

With technologies like handoff and continuity, a unified developer program, and many of the same system frameworks available on all four of its platforms, Apple has been moving over the past few years to more seamlessly integrate its ecosystem of devices. This presents a great opportunity for us to bring our apps to each platform while reusing a lot of the app logic we've already written.