#ios

23 items tagged "ios".

Posts

• SwiftUI Under the Hood: Its Architecture and Relationship to UIKit

  Posted on:May 8, 2026

  SwiftUI is not a black box replacement for UIKit. It's a view graph diffing engine that runs on top of UIKit and AppKit. Here's how it actually works.

  swiftuiiosuikit

• Understanding Copy-on-Write in Swift

  Posted on:May 7, 2026

  Swift's value types avoid expensive copies until you actually mutate them. Here's how CoW works under the hood.

  swiftios

• Best Practices for Unit Testing iOS Apps

  Posted on:October 20, 2022

  Tests are automated. Run often. Preferably on each commit or pull request to quickly catch regressions.

  ios

• Reference Cycles in iOS

  Posted on:September 20, 2022

  Strong reference cycles prevent instances from ever being deallocated, causing a memory leak.

  ios

• Concurrency and Parallelism in iOS

  Posted on:September 19, 2022

  iOS offers several ways to run tasks concurrently. This article is a short summary of them.

  ios

• Low Memory Crash Events in iOS

  Posted on:January 10, 2016

  How crash reporting tools work.

  ios

• Coordinate System in SpriteKit

  Posted on:November 10, 2015

  Differences between SKScene and SKNode when it comes to coordinate system in SpriteKit.

  iosspritekit

• Advertising Identifier in iOS

  Posted on:August 10, 2015

  An alphanumeric string unique to each device, used only for serving advertisements.

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• CMMotionManager Noise Reduction in iOS

  Posted on:July 14, 2015

  A way to smooth the accelerometer readings using a Low Pass Filter.

  ios

• Playing Sounds in SpriteKit using SKAction

  Posted on:April 10, 2015

  A couple of tips and tricks and useful code snippets for playing sounds.

  iosspritekit

• iOS NSRunLoop in a Nutshell

  Posted on:April 9, 2014

  An event processing loop that you use to schedule work and coordinate the receipt of incoming events.

  ios

• MVC Design Pattern in iOS

  Posted on:December 25, 2011

  Model-view-controller concept in the iOS world.

  ios

Projects

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  igobubble

  Social discovery iOS app and backend API.

  ios objective-c .net csharp
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  Lichess Mobile

  Open source contributions to the Lichess mobile chess app — iOS widgets, puzzles, openings explorer, and UX improvements.

  ios flutter dart open-source lichess
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  DasKochrezept

  iOS app for DasKochrezept magazine. Featured by Apple.

  ios objective-c
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  AMBOSS

  iOS apps supporting Amboss medical knowledge platform.

  ios objective-c core-data
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  eCarUp

  iOS app for finding, monitoring, and paying for EV charging — rewritten from Xamarin to Swift.

  ios swift
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  Spacequest

  iOS game, space shooter, written in Swift using SpriteKit

  ios swift spritekit game
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  TrendU

  Mobile shopping iOS app with custom Tinder-like feed animations.

  ios objective-c
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  BBQ

  iOS app with information about public grilling spots in Berlin

  ios objective-c core-data mapkit
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  MyDriver

  An iOS app for ordering a myDriver limousine service.

  ios objective-c
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  Tuba.fm

  Personalised radio app for iPhone. Winner of Mobile Trends Awards 2010.

  ios objective-c core-audio
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  Animation extensions

  A useful UIView category containing a set of most commonly used animations like rotation, flip, shake and others.

  ios objective-c uikit cocoapods animation