01/16 - The best iOS development links

Feb 1, 2016 • 3 min read

The best iOS development links from January 2016.

Moving On: “We have a difficult announcement to make. Beginning today we’re winding down the Parse service, and Parse will be fully retired after a year-long period ending on January 28, 2017.“
iOS shipments overtook Windows in 2015 for the first time: iOS has become a huge platform. So it’s good to be an iOS developer, isn’t it?
CocoaPods App: CocoaPods now has a Mac app. Very cool!

The Swift Evolution proposal SE-0009 rejection: Since Swift has become open source, there were some interesting evolution proposals. Read about this particular proposal to learn about the usage of “self”.
When To Use Mutating Functions in Swift Structs: Two approaches to achieve mutability in structs.
Swift Tutorial: Introduction to Generics: Generics are a very cool feature in Swift. In this tutorial you learn all you need to know about them.
Swift 2 Parse JSON (Deserialisation): As an iOS developer you will quickly get to the point where you need to parse JSON. So be prepared and read this very good post.
Is Apple Using Swift in iOS?: Swift has made an awesome development and a lot of developers are using Swift already. But how much is Apple using Swift?
Getting Started With Swift — Protocols: If you want to have a great software architecture in your app, you should use protocols. Especially since Swift 2.0 and the introduction of protocol extensions there is a lot to learn about it. This article is a very good introduction.
Dictionaries in Swift: An in-detph introduction to dictionaries in Swift.
Profiling your Swift compilation times: Great tip to profile and to improve your Swift compilation times.
15 Tips to Become a Better Swift Developer: These tips are really awesome! I especially like the ones about defining constants and cleaning up asynchronous code.

Awesome-Swift-Education: Very good list of iOS and Swift resources.
Enum-Driven View Controllers: View controllers tend to become very chaotic in iOS projects. By using enums you can achieve a better structure of your view controllers.
NSNotificationCenter is Probably an Anti-Pattern: I’ve never been a fan of using NSNotification Center…
NSURLSession Tutorial: Getting Started: A very good overview about NSURLSessions.

12/15: The Best iOS Development Links: The best iOS development links from December 2015.
Interview: Natasha The Robot: Natasha The Robot is an iOS development industry leader. She blogs at natashatherobot.com and publishes a weekly Swift newsletter at swiftnews.curated.co. Her Twitter handle is @NatashaTheRobot.
10 Reasons You Should Blog As A Developer: Blogging is a great thing – especially for developers! This is a list of 10 reasons why you should blog as a developer.
Network Link Conditioner: In this post we will discuss how you can simulate a bad network connection by using the Network Link Conditioner.
How To Become An iOS Developer: So you want to become an iOS developer, but you don’t know how? No problem, in this post we will discuss how to do it.
Why iOS Developers Should Look Into Android Development: It is a very good idea to specialise in one area, but in addition you should also look into other areas as well. So an iOS developer should have a basic understanding of Android development.
The Most Common Mistake In Using UITableViews: UITableView is one of the most important user interface objects you are using in iOS development. However, there is one common mistake in using UITableViews that could drive you crazy.
How To Use Both Swift And Objective-C In One Project?: The Swift and Objective-C interoperability is very good so that it is very easy to use both Swift and Objective-C in one project.

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