Time (Swift lib)

17 March 202017 March 2020 patmcgLeave a comment

Time is really confusing when you think about it, especially when you are programming around it. And especially in a mobile app, where the time on the device could be in any timezone and is not guaranteed to be reliable.

I have seen plenty of “time” bugs in my days. I’ve seen time beat some amazing programmers, even leading one of them to question aloud, “What is time?”

This new Swift “Time” library looks like a good shot at simplifying time and restoring sanity.

👉 Introducing Time

I love that the basic classes in this library are Clock and TimeZone. Yesss, that is some simple SOLID goodness!

👉 Time on GitHub

Via iOS Dev Weekly.

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A11yUITests: Automated iOS Accessibility Testing

12 March 202025 February 2020 patmcgLeave a comment

Bookmarking this library for automated accessibility testing on iOS.

👉 A11yUITests: An XCUI Testing library for accessibility

A11yUITests is an extension to XCTestCase that adds tests for common accessibility issues that can be run as part of an XCUITest suite.

Via iOS Dev Weekly.

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R.swift

10 March 202025 February 2020 patmcgLeave a comment

This is kinda cool. It makes for cleaner code and avoids hard-coded resource strings.

👉R.swift on GitHub

Get strong typed, autocompleted resources like images, fonts and segues in Swift projects.

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MVC: Many View Controllers

5 March 20204 March 2020 patmcgLeave a comment

Another counterpoint in the iOS architecture wars, saying basically that MVC is actually pretty sound as long as you use it wisely.

This post breaks controllers down into a few types: Containers, Generic controllers, View controllers, Flow controllers to help reframe things.

One of my favorite points here is that not everything has to be a model, a view, or a controller. You can — and should — create other kinds of code! No wonder your controllers are messy if you limit yourself like that. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This issue happens when the developer thinks they must fit everything into either M, V or C, forgetting that they are allowed to create other types of constructs.

👉 MVC: Many View Controllers