• 2025-01-21
How to Build a Dream Team: A Guide to Recruiting Great Mobile Developers

Have you ever joined a development team that was a team in name only? Torn apart by internal conflicts, petty quarrels, clashing egos, and office politics? Or perhaps you've seen a seemingly perfect candidate join a well-organized team, only to fail to integrate and quickly leave? Finding and recruiting exceptional…

  • 2024-12-03
How to Create Dynamic iOS Apps: Remote Styling with SwiftUI

Remote styling in iOS apps is becoming increasingly important for modern development workflows. Picture this: you're finalizing a banking app with remote UI configuration capabilities. From the project's inception, you've implemented a robust remote styling system with SwiftUI view modifiers that make UI updates seamless. Your codebase includes well-structured style…

  • 2024-10-06
What Are 3 Truths About Becoming Successful IOS Tech Lead?

So you've been promoted to a Tech Lead position? Or perhaps you're eyeing it as the next step in your career? But what does a Tech Lead actually do? What new responsibilities come with this title? Beyond the usual job-change jitters, is there anything you should know before taking the…

  • 2024-08-13
How to unlock code flexibility applying S.O.L.I.D. Open-Closed Principle?

The Open-Closed Principle (OCP) represents the letter "O" in S.O.L.I.D. It teaches us to create software that is open to extension but closed to change, enhancing its maintainability and scalability. To be honest, the OCP is one of the most challenging S.O.L.I.D. principles to understand and apply in iOS projects.…

  • 2024-06-08
How to build a robust and scalable modular iOS app?

Recently, modularity has gained a lot of popularity in our field over the years. Architectures like TCA and VIPER pride themselves on their inherently modular design. Compared to a monolithic design, modularity offers various benefits: efficient work parallelization (especially in large teams), interchangeability, superior separation of concerns and responsibilities, and…

  • 2024-05-01
Why the best mobie apps need Software Craftsmanship?

What distinguishes a top 10% iOS developer? How can we draw parallels with the craftsmen of old? In what ways can we refine our skills following their lead? How should we select our projects, clients, and companies? Once involved in a project, how do we initiate change to ensure its…

  • 2024-04-15
When is Single Responsibility Principle helping us write better code?

How many responsibilities should a class have? As many as it needs! This is a common joke, but the reality often is far less amusing... How often do we encounter… “challenging” code annotated with "Do not change!!!" comments? Software development isn't rocket science. There are a few basic rules that most…

  • 2024-02-24
How to bundle assets in an iOS app?

Picture this: you're just dying to play a car racing game. After a quick scroll through the App Store you find the perfect one. It has cool graphics and some sweet retro cars to race. And it's even free! You're pumped, hit download and wait. Finally, you launch the game…

  • 2024-01-04
Career of a successful software craftsman

Ever wondered how some developers maintain their passion for their craft after decades in the business? How do they continue to contribute at the highest level? Where do they source their motivation to keep learning? How do they find time to do all this and share their knowledge? Conversely, you've…

  • 2023-11-10
Why mobile apps need a good abstraction?

Imagine you’ve just implemented a nice feature. Cleanly separated UI from business logic, added some unit tests, etc. Surely, code review would be a formality. Instead, this insufferable Senior Dev requested that you wrap one of the services with abstraction. Surely, you’ve read somewhere that you should operate on abstractions…