Building, validating, and uploading your iOS app to Apple’s App Store Connect is a surprisingly arduous process. The next time I make an app on my own, I’m totally going to automate the heck out of the process where I can.
This video show how to do it in an hour. 🤯
The lead maintainer of fastlane demonstrates how easy it is to set up fastlane to automate the process of building, signing and uploading your app to the App Store
Via iOS Dev Weekly.
You know those notifications you get on your phone from Medium, Nextdoor, or NPR? They’re surprisingly hard to develop and test. A lot happens to get that message onto your phone.
And testing them quickly and thoroughly without impacting people you don’t want to impact can be a challenge. So here’s a little guide to the latest way to test push notifications on iOS.
👉 How to test push notifications in simulator and production iOS apps
Via iOS Dev Weekly.
Here’s a pretty amazing series and GitHub repo on mastering sychronizing data across iOS devices.
This is a really tough thing to do well, so this series looks incredibly helpful. The central idea is Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs).
I like this teaser under the headline “Where is the server?”
There is no truth — decentral apps rely on trust rather than truth.
Via iOS Dev Weekly.
Here are some interesting thoughts on the idea that SwiftUI lets you choose you own architecture, unlike UIKit, which steers you towards some variation of MVC.
I also like their basic hand-drawn visual. 🤓
Via iOS Dev Weekly.
Xcode 12 is adding a new metric to objectively track how smoothly your app scrolls. This is kind of cool since scrolling smoothness feels right and is a sign of a good design.
Via iOS Dev Weekly.
Mental Break Town 