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Table of Content

• Architecture
  • MVC
  • MVVM
  • Modular Architecture
  • Viper
• Auto Layout
• Closures
• CocoaPods
• Combine
• Concurrency
• Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
• Curation
• Data Structure
• Debugging
• Deep Dive
• Dependency Injection
• Design System
• Flawless App
• Flutter
• Frameworks
• Git
• How to Implement an App: Case-Studies
• Image
• Implementing Animations in iOS
• Implementing Integrations
• iOS
  • iOS 11
  • iOS 12
  • iOS 13
• iOS Simulator
• iPadOS
• JSON Parsing
• Localisation
• Machine Learning in iOS
• Making Xcode Work Better for You
• Memory Management
• Navigation
• Patterns
• Playgrround
• Protocols
• Push Notifications
• RxSwift
• Siri
• Soft Skills
• Sourcery
• Speeding up workflow & productivity tips
• Storyboards
• Swift
• SwiftUI
• Testing
• Texture
• Tutorial
• UIKit
• URLs
• UX & UI design for mobile developers
• White Label Solutions
• Writing Better Code
• 3D Touch

Architecture

• The only viable iOS architecture by Amirzhan Idryshev

MVC+

• “Massive” View Controllers or bad coding style? by Besar
• Judging MVC by Amr Salma

MVVM

• How not to get desperate with MVVM implementation by S.T.Huang
• A taste of MVVM and Reactive paradigm by Khoa Pham
• Advanced iOS tutorial on MVVM by S.T.Huang
• Applying Unit Tests to MVVM with Swift by S.T.Huang
• Practical MVVM + RxSwift by Mohammad Zakizadeh
• Fighting state redundancy in MVVM by Alexey Naumov

Modular Architecture

• Modular Architecture in iOS by Leandro Pérez
• Speed Up your iOS Development: The Modules’s Paradigm by Francisco Javier Trujillo Mata

Viper

• Implementing VIPER Architecture Pattern for iOS by Mahdi Chtioui
• App Architecture and Object Composition in Swift by Dmytro Anokhin

Auto Layout

• How to make Auto Layout more convenient in iOS by Khoa Pham

Closures

• Simplifying communication patterns with closure in Swift by Khoa Pham
• You don’t (always) need [weak self] by Besher Al Maleh
• Closure in Swift: The Painful one! by Shubham Bakshi
• Unowned vs Weak by Fahad C H

CocoaPods

• Create your own CocoaPods library by Yong Su

Combine

• Problem Solving with Combine Swift by Arlind Aliu
• Will Combine kill RxSwift? by MortyMerr
• Visualize Combine Magic with SwiftUI Part 1 by Kevin Cheng
• Visualize Combine Magic with SwiftUI Part 3 by Kevin Cheng
• Visualize Combine Magic with SwiftUI Part 5 by Kevin Cheng
• Building smart Q&A app with CoreML, SwiftUI, and Combine by Martin Mitrevski
• How to create custom Publisher in Combine by Dmitry Lupich

Concurrency

• Parallel Programming with Swift: What could possibly go wrong? by Jan Olbrich
• Parallel programming with Swift: Basics by Jan Olbrich
• Parallel programming with Swift: Operations by Jan Olbrich
• Parallel programming with Swift: Promises by Jan Olbrich
• Multithreaded Programming in iOS by Medi Assumani
• GPU Speedup by Mohammad Jeragh

Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery

• How to set up your iOS project with Continuous Integration and Delivery by Lawrence Tan
• How to set up GitLab Continuous Integration for iOS projects without a hassle by Victor Peschenkov
• Build it, Test it, Deliver it! Complete iOS Guide on Continuous Delivery with fastlane and Jenkins by S.T.Huang
• Automate your iOS apps using Bitrise by Gokhan Gultekin
• Continuous Integration for Flutter with Codemagic by Codemagic
• iOS Continuous Integration with GitLab CI, Fastlane & OTA Installation by Leszek Szary
• Secret variables in Xcode AND your CI for fun and profit by Robin Malhotra

Curation

• Awesome Ladies iOS Engineers to Follow on Twitter by Lisa Dziuba
• 15 great iOS newsletters you should know about by Lisa Dziuba
• 33 awesome GitHub lists for iOS development by Lisa Dziuba
• Best resources for Advanced iOS Developer (Swift) by Pavlo Shadov

Data Structure

• Doubly Linked Lists — Swift 4 by Sarin Swift
• Error trees in iOS by Isaac Carol Weisberg

Debugging

• Advanced debugging with Xcode by Vincent Pradeilles
• Bringing awesome logs to your iOS app by Vincent Pradeilles

Deep Dive

• IPC — Mach Message by Ali Pourhadi

Dependency Injection

• iOS Dependency Injection Using Swinject by Ali Akhtar

Design System

• What Design Language System looks from the engineers’ side? by Sting.Su

Flawless App

• How Flawless App will make you a better UI designer by Ahmed Sulaiman
• Flawless App update: redesigned UI and UX, dark mode and optimised file selection by Flawless App

Flutter

• Flutter vs React Native: A Developer’s Perspective by Codemagic
• Flutter: TDD with Unit Tests by Lawrence Tan

Frameworks

• Getting Started with Reusable Frameworks for iOS Development by Alec O'Connor
• Improve your iOS team’s productivity by building features as frameworks by Alexander Freas

Git

• Useful git commands for everyday use! by Khoa Pham

How to Implement an App: Case-Studies

• A Christmas Challenge — A Cinema app in just 7 days by James Sherlock
• How I created Apple’s Voice Memos clone by Hassan El Desouky
• Creating Game of Life on iOS by Arlind Aliu
• How you can build a private photo-sharing app in 30 minutes with Creo by Massimo Sgrelli
• Implementing Foldable, Map and FlatMap by Tyrone Michael Avnit
• Building Movie Trailer App Using SwiftUI by Shankar Madeshvaran

Image

• Image Cropping in Swift by Ashok Kumar

Implementing Animations in iOS

• Delightful animations in iOS by Roland Leth
• Using Sky Segmentation to create stunning background animations in iOS by Eric Hsiao
• Cool Custom ViewController Transitions — Easy by Fran Obarrio
• Cool Custom ViewController Transitions — Advanced by Fran Obarrio
• Animated gradient layers in Swift by Prabhu S
• RxAnimated — animated bindings by Stfalcon.com

Implementing Integrations

• Facebook Account Kit using Swift by Anas Zaheer
• Unity Integration in Native iOS & APIs by Azeem Azeez
• Scratching the Firebase services with your iOS app by Deyan Aleksandrov
• Managing your App Distribution with Firebase by Nabil Kazi

iOS

iOS 11

• Sneak peek into iOS 11 Drag & Drop API using Swift by Yuri Chukhlib

iOS 12

• All about iOS 12 Autofill Passwords Tool API’s by Ali Akhtar

iOS 13

• How To Prepare Your App For iOS 13 by Attia Mo
• A “Swifty” way to pick Documents by Abraham Mangona
• iOS 13 UISegmentedControl: 3 important changes by Rostyslav Dovhaliuk
• How to Request Device Motion and Orientation Permission in iOS 13 by Lee Martin
• How to use a full-text search on iOS? by Pavle Pesic
• Handling iOS 13 Bluetooth Permissions by Anupam Chugh
• Backward compatible Dark Mode on iOS by Maksym Shcheglov
• Enable Accessibility VoiceOver for ImageView in iOS 13 on Xcode with Swift by Mumtaz Hussain
• Implementing Dark Mode on iOS by Bao Nguyen
• Getting started with PencilKit on iOS 13 by Martin Mitrevski
• iOS 13: Optical Character Recognition by Chris Mash
• Upgrade the UI with iOS 13 by Takuma Kakehi

iOS Simulator

• iOS Simulator on steroids: Tips & Tricks by Ahmed Sulaiman

iPadOS

• Multi-window development in iPadOS by Chris Mash
• Using native Apple’s Places by Andrew Konovalskyi

JSON Parsing

• Let’s parse the JSON like a Boss with Swift Codable protocol by Shakti Prakash

Localisation

• DRY String Localization with Interface Builder by Victor Pavlychko

Machine Learning in iOS

• iOS Vision And Highlighting Text With Core ML by Anupam Chugh
• Machine Learning in iOS: IBM Watson and CoreML by Khoa Pham
• Machine Learning in iOS: Azure Custom Vision and CoreML by Khoa Pham
• Machine Learning in iOS: Turi Create and CoreML by Khoa Pham
• Vision in iOS: Text detection and Tesseract recognition by Khoa Pham

Making Xcode Work Better for You

• Become more productive and efficient in Xcode by Farhan Syed
• One-Stop Xcode Coziness by Wendy Liga
• Optimize Swift build and compile times in Xcode by Batikan
• Improve your Xcode (Swift) Compile Time by Alexandros Smponias
• Essential Xcode Shortcuts for More Efficient Coding by Peter Friese
• Xcode 11 now makes “//MARK:” comments a lot more useful with Minimap feature by Mumtaz Hussain
• 7 Useful Tips and Tricks for Xcode by Göktuğ Gümüş

Memory Management

• Memory Leaks in Swift by Leandro Pérez
• iOS Memory Management in Under 6 Minutes by Hassan El Desouky
• Reducing Memory Footprint and OOM Terminations in iOS by Leandro Pérez

Navigation

• Creating a UITabBarController Framework by Malcolm Kumwenda

Patterns

• Returning Error vs Throwing Error in Swift by Lau Kwok Ping
• Strategy pattern in Swift by Juanpe Catalán
• Flow coordinator pattern on steroids by Pavle Pesic
• An elegant pattern to craft cache-efficient functions in Swift by Vincent Pradeilles
• Design patterns by Tutorials— The power of OOP (part 1) by Hitendra Solanki
• Design patterns by Tutorials — The power of OOP (part 3) by Hitendra Solanki
• Builder Design Pattern in iOS by Oguz Parlak

Playgrround

• Playground driven development in Swift by Khoa Pham

Protocols

• Writing a Network Layer in Swift: Protocol-Oriented Approach by Malcolm Kumwenda
• Improving code testability with Swift protocols by Juanpe Catalán
• Protocol-based Themes in iOS Apps by Muhammad Nayab Butt

Push Notifications

• iOS remote push notifications in a nutshell by Deyan Aleksandrov
• Strong-typed Notifications in Swift by Leandro Pérez
• iOS Dynamic Push Notifications with AWS Pinpoint by Marvin Mouroum
• Local Notifications in Swift 5 and iOS 13 with UNUSerNotificationCenter by Lachlan Miller

RxSwift

• Simplifying RxSwift code by MortyMerr
• Reactive Heart Rate Monitors in Swift by Leandro Pérez
• The state of modern Rx in iOS by Isaac Carol Weisberg

Siri

• WWDC 2018 for iOS developers: Siri Shortcuts by Jan Olbrich
• Ask user input from Siri in custom Intent for iOS 13 by Abhilash Mathur

Soft Skills

• How I failed 39 interviews and what I’ve learned by Hassan El Desouky
• How to get the first job as an iOS developer by Hassan El Desouky
• How to maintain the focus as a software developer? by Pavle Pesic

Sourcery

• How to supercharge Swift enum-based states with Sourcery by Alexey Demedeckiy

Speeding up workflow & productivity tips

• Squeezing Xcode for hard drive space by Chris Mash
• iOS project best practices and tools by Piotr Gorzelany
• Make your next iOS project a huge success by Alexandros Smponias
• Achieving maximum test readability at no cost for iOS by Victor Magalhães
• Best iOS hacks from Twitter: October Edition by Lisa Dziuba
• Best iOS hacks from Twitter: November Edition by Lisa Dziuba
• Best iOS hacks from Twitter: December Edition by Lisa Dziuba
• Best iOS hacks from Twitter: January & February Edition by Lisa Dziuba
• Best iOS hacks from Twitter: March & April Edition by Lisa Dziuba

Storyboards

• Will Storyboards still be alive? by Nabil Kazi
• Reducing iOS storyboard merge hell by Chris Mash

Swift

• UndoManager in Swift 5 with example by Hitendra Solanki
• Disjoint-set union in C++ and Swift by Hassan El Desouky
• Access Control Basics in iOS Swift — Part 1 by Richard Lu
• Access Control Basics in iOS Swift — Part 2 by Richard Lu
• How can Property Wrappers and Function Builders be leveraged? by Vincent Pradeilles
• Dictionaries in Swift by Adriatik Gashi
• Swift & Objective-C Mixed Languages App by Anand Nimje
• A practical guide to Weak Referencing in Swift by Serge Mata M
• Fireworks — A visual particles editor for Swift by Besher Al Maleh
• Static vs Dynamic Dispatch in Swift: A decisive choice by Shubham Bakshi
• Stubbing in pair with Swift compiler: a spy registration by Bartosz Polaczyk
• Swift Compiler: What we can learn by Ali Pourhadi
• What is PassKit and how to use it? by Kristaps Grinbergs
• Reusable Image Cache in Swift by Maksym Shcheglov
• SwiftLint in Use by Soheil Novinfard
• Say Goodbye to “Index out of range” — Swift by Wendy Liga
• That “return” keyword in guard let statement in Swift by Mumtaz Hussain

SwiftUI

• My takeaway from working with SwiftUI by T. Khan Abbas
• SwiftUI — How to setup a project by Martin Lasek
• SwiftUI - Understanding State by Martin Lasek
• SwiftUI - Dynamic List & Identifiable by Martin Lasek
• SwiftUI & Combine: Better Together by Peter Friese
• Tips & Tricks: Remaking the 2048 game with SwiftUI and Combine by Carlos Corrêa
• The Simple Life(cycle) of a SwiftUI View by Danny Bolella
• Build fast and better Apps with SwiftUI by Jaydeep Vora
• An Instagram clone using SwiftUI and GraphQL — ProfileView by Back4App
• Fast app prototyping with SwiftUI by Carlos Corrêa
• SwiftUI Accessibility: Sort Priority by Rob Whitaker
• SwiftUI Accessibility: Named Controls by Rob Whitaker
• SwiftUI Accessibility: Images by Rob Whitaker
• SwiftUI Accessibility: Accessible User Interface by Rob Whitaker
• SwiftUI Accessibility: Attributes by Rob Whitaker
• SwiftUI Accessibility: Traits by Rob Whitaker
• SwiftUI Accessibility: User Setting by Rob Whitaker
• SwiftUI Accessibility: Semantic Views by Rob Whitaker
• SwiftUI Accessibility by Rob Whitaker
• How To Build A Firebase App With SwiftUI by Sebastian Esser
• Build a Compass app with SwiftUI by Darren
• What’s the Delegation Protocol in SwiftUI? by Danny Bolella
• Gradient in SwiftUI by Ashish Kakkad
• MapKit in SwiftUI by Anand Nimje
• Programmatic navigation in SwiftUI project by Alexey Naumov
• SwiftUI Tutorial: Showing Badge on Tab Bar Item by Jihad Fayz
• Gestures and Animations in SwiftUI by Jihad Fayz
• SwiftUI: Movie Booking App, Part 2: Movie & Actor Detail View by Liquidcoder
• Getting Started with SwiftUI by Nilay Keven

Testing

• How to test iOS apps with Combine, ReactiveSwift and RxSwift by Szymon Mrozek
• Automated UI Testing in Swift & iOS by Joe Williams
• Guarantee Rx memory leaks absence by MortyMerr
• Cracking the Tests for Core Data by S.T.Huang
• The complete guide to Network Unit Testing in Swift by S.T.Huang
• How to use Golden Master testing for your iOS apps by Jan Olbrich
• A complete list of articles on Unit Testing with Swift from 2017 by S.T.Huang

Texture

• Why I build my apps using Texture (and why you should too) by Robin Malhotra

Tutorial

• Getting Started with Moya by Malcolm Kumwenda
• Change splash screen in iOS app for dummies (the better way) by Jan Václavík
• Clean AppDelegate by Anders Borch
• Managing different environments in your Swift project with ease by Yuri Chukhlib
• The Beginner’s Guide to Code Coverage by Jubin Jacob

UIKit

• Speed Up your iOS Development: Demystifying complex UIViews using Decorators by Francisco Javier Trujillo Mata
• A better way to update UICollectionView data in Swift with diff framework by Khoa Pham
• Infinite UIScrollView by Aybek Can Kaya
• Container View Controllers Redux by Dennis Walsh
• Exploring View Hierarchy by Dmytro Anokhin
• How to create reusable UIViews in Swift by Pablo Blanco
• How to use UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource by Aleksej Gurin
• All you need to know about UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout by Aleksej Gurin
• How to build complex layout using UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout and UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource by Aleksej Gurin

URLs

• URL Routing in iOS apps: Compass Beginner Guide by Khoa Pham
• Open URLs using the iOS UIResponder chain in Swift by Joseph El Mallah
• Building URLRequests with ease by Juanpe Catalán
• iOS Universal links and App Referrals using BranchIO Integration by Sumit Kashid

UX & UI design for mobile developers

• The ultimate guide for mobile developers, who want to design by Ahmed Sulaiman
• 42 great UI Kits for iOS engineers by Lisa Dziuba
• 10 Year Challenge: How Popular iOS Apps Have Changed by Valia Havryliuk
• 5 UX and Mobile Marketing Tips to Get Users Hooked to Your App by Pradyut Hande
• Animations in iOS: Tab Bar concepts by Lisa Dziuba
• UI vs Print: Contradictions in typographical practice by Alexander Artsvuni
• Designers guide to user data and CRUD by Tanya Anokhina
• How I Created Apple’s Shortcuts Icon System by Hassan El Desouky
• iOS design by prototyping and iterating by Martin Mitrevski

White Label Solutions

• Managing White Label Solutions by Nabil Kazi
• React Native App: White Label 101 by Sean Najera

Writing Better Code

• Beautiful Code Principles by Pavle Pesic
• Four Rules of Simpler iOS Software Design by Arlind Aliu
• From hobbyist to professional iOS Developer: Single Responsibility Principle by Adrian Zyga
• From hobbyist to professional iOS Developer: Open/Closed Principle by Adrian Zyga
• Explain SOLID Principles from Company perspective by Richard Lu

3D Touch

• Getting started with 3D Touch Peek & Pop— Swift by Ashok Kumar

Addendum (Reference & Inspiration)

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