Clean code is not always the best approach. Choose how to structure your code based on your needs! — A couple of days ago, I saw this post on LinkedIn, which pointed to this video on YouTube. The video is a great resource, and I strongly suggest you watch it. The video analyzes some of the common advice provided by clean code, like avoid switch or if statements in…

Don’t change default param’s values when subclassing — One thing I love about my job is that it pushes me to learn something new every day. …

Discover how learning to work with a continuous integration system can help your career — Software engineering is a team effort. To develop great and successful products, we gather in teams, and work together to implement new features. Our codebases can grow a lot, and international teams work across different timezones. Especially in this distributed environment, we need tools that ensure large codebases stay healthy…

Automate repetitive stuff — Swift is a wonderful language. It can be used for everything: iOS apps, libraries, macOS apps, and command line interfaces (CLI) apps. You can also use it as a scripting language. This week, I had to do repetitive work, and I didn’t want to do it manually. …

How to test that objects are properly deallocated without introducing overhead in your production code — Testing is one of my favorite topics, that’s no news. And I love to research and find new ways to improve how we can testing our apps and libraries. One of the hardest things to test in iOS are reference cycles. I already wrote about testing reference cycles a year…

Configure a Swift library using SwiftPM and Cocoapods — If you work in a large company, working with legacy code written in Objective-C may be necessary. In these situations, it may not be necessary to migrate the code to Swift immediately. …

How to write and debug a Swift Package Command plugin — This year, Apple released a new feature for the Swift Package Manager: Swift Package Plugins. We can now write two kinds of plugins that are automatically integrated with Xcode: Build (and pre-build) Plugins. Command Plugins. I already talked about building plugins in a couple of articles: “Implement Your First Swift…

Learn when SwiftUI re-render subviews — One of the amazing aspects of the Software engineering profession is that you never stop learning. You are exposed every day to different technologies: learning their basic concepts is one of the things that I personally like the most. One of the most important skills to learn new technologies is…

Apply Xcode build plugins to your iOS app development flow — As an iOS engineer, the final goal of your work is to develop iOS applications. This June, Apple presented a new feature for the Swift Package Manager which integrate with Xcode: Swift Package plugins. More information on the Swift Package plugins can be found in these WWDC videos: Meet Swift…