Now that we know how to create a package hosted in a git repo and use in a client project, we would like to try to set up some automated build + running our unit tests. This would prevent any wrong commits, and we could be notified automatically by the system. For the example, I […]
In the first post, we saw how to create a package, here we’ll see how to use our newly created package without our project. Add code to your package First, open your xcode project, and create some code. Get rid of the automatically generated code : FluentCoding_MediaControl.swift Create a new swift file: MediaControlManager.swift ⚠️ Please […]
Today I would like to write about Swift Package Manager (SPM), which was introduced already several years ago, but I’ve never had a chance to try as I was mostly using Cocoa Pods for managing dependencies. I will split my experience over several posts (4), because there is a lot to write, so this one […]
What is a module? In Xcode we have the possibility to create modules like in other IDE/programming languages. Maybe you are aware of dlls in C++, or jar file in Java. These are self contained pieces of program (compiled or not) which are usually responsible for a main concept. You can imagine a module as […]
Swift UI has been around for almost 2 years now, and I didn’t have much time / opportunity to play with it. But yesterday I did my first Swift UI view. This is not very advanced, as I wanted to replace a simple table view which shows text on each cell, and handles a click […]
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Unit Testing with XCode
I like to write unit tests. It gives me early feedback on my code and challenge my design. After all, unit tests are the first clients of my API. Unit tests are cheap, easy to write, easy to maintain and fast to execute, at least they should 😆 Here I want to give just couple […]
How many TODO, do you have in your code? If your code base is big, or running for couple of years, I bet you have several dozen of TODOs in comments. And most likely, they are going to stay for a while. Usually we write TODOs like this ❌ TODOs got forgotten, unless you have […]
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Books I read in 2020
Last year I (re)started investing in myself. Investing in my knowledge and my skills. It is not an easy thing to do always to motivate yourself to learn or relearn new things, improve your skills beside family life and this lock-down / Covid time. Despite this I have read 3 Computing programming books last year. […]
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Add vs. Adding
A few weeks ago, I was watching an online video which presented a way to generate an object following the Builder Pattern.I hear something very interesting which I believe is a convention within the Swift world on how to name some of your methods within your API objects. Add versus Adding or more generic, [Action] […]
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Introduction
Hi there, I am Alex. This is my first post on my new blog. 2020 has been a crazy year, and thankfully we are now in 2021 where we can set up some new goals and targets for ourselves. In 2021, I am committed to start writing posts. What will I write about? I started […]