I have this pet peeve where I don’t like to type out .compactMap { $0 } every time I want to remove nils from a publisher. Today I finally took some time to find a good alternative & I really like how ...

Last time we talked about how to refactor a callback based network call into an async/await based call. In that case, we had access to the underlying networking code & updated the entire chain of method calls to use async/await...

Recently I’ve refactored a few callback based network requests to use Swift’s new Async / Await syntax. Let’s take a look at how we can take a conventional callback based API method and improve its readability and simplicity...

If you’re a Swift blogger like me, you probably have to come up with some easy way to highlight code syntax on the web. After some searching I came across Splash which was created by the relatively famous John Sundell (he uses...

I was recently working on my Wordie app & needed some confetti to celebrate a victory when the user guesses the correct word. I built the app completely in SwiftUI so I started searching for a confetti library I could drop in...

In step 1 we created the widget extension target & got it running on the simulator. Now let’s look at the basic parts of a widget. You’ll notice that Apple created a folder with your widget name & made a template file for you...

It was pretty cool when Apple gave us widgets with iOS 14. Finally we could customize our home screens with something more than just app icons! This is a simple walkthrough of how to add a widget to your app & what to put in...

The first time I heard of a DispatchGroup was a few years into my iOS career - my teammate mentioned that he used it in his pull request code. He said this DispatchGroup made it easy to wait for multiple async callbacks...