I hadn’t used Firebase’s Crashlytics before in a project but thought I’d give it a spin in my latest SwiftUI project(A petrol ”gas” station finder / budget app) After realising that it was a bit too ‘bleeding edge’ for Firebase themselves (The documentation doesn’t mention SwiftUI, unless you really dig…

My first iOS app went live on the Apple Store in September 2020 just 4 and a half months after opening Xcode for the first time :/ Of course I had learnt a lot (Obviously not an expert, but I had made an app , damn!) The app was built…

Adopting light and dark mode in iOS and allowing users to switch between themes (or modes) is surprisingly complex (I think so at least … I’m still learning ). It comes in two parts, choosing the colours for dark mode (unless you are happy to use system colours in which…

Around 1.5 Billion people use Gmail and that was a statistic from 2019. Gmail obviously makes money from targeted email that they send Gmail users. But on top of that they can also provide extra storage space when your Gmail account inevitably becomes saturated :) The pricing is reasonable and…

If you have ever used the iTunes API as a datasource for a collectionView or tableView you’ll know that the the provided images (for movies at least) only come in three different sizes : 100x100 / 60x60 and 30x30 The provided URL’s look like this : https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Video113/v4/ba/b1/63/bab16356-b0c0-007a-de47-0de96366dec6/source/100x100bb.jpg

Beginner iOS Dev — Like most of my articles — the above is something I’ve had to do for an app of mine. It took a little research so I thought I’d write about it here and save you the time :)

(This story contains affiliate links) As an Apple die hard fan, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on Apple’s latest device, their most affordable yet :) Ordered on launch day my single Airtag arrived by DHL much earlier than the announced date. I considered the 4 pack but I…

This a handy technique for things like todo apps where you potentially need more than one line of text and UILabel just won’t do. You do however lose the placeholder functionality but that’s another story. So let’s start by creating a new basic iOS project — remove the ViewController and…

I recently put together a project as a reference for myself, a way of noting down difference techniques for building buttons. The project uses various techniques, classes and extensions to achieve the above result. …