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Automatically Delete iOS Simulator Screenshots

In iOS Development, you'll often use Command + S to take screenshots of your app running in the iOS Simulator. Although this is very convenient for sharing screenshots of your application with your team, or for pull requests, etc., since the system saves these screenshots to your Desktop, it quickly leads

Regex In 10 Minutes

We'll cover everything you need to know about regular expressions and some tips to help you get the most out of them in Xcode.

Adding Custom Shortcuts To Xcode

It’s always bugged me that Apple removed the Command + T shortcut to toggle Slow Animations. Using the following approach, you can restore this shortcut and add custom shortcuts to any Xcode or iOS Simulator settings. In System Preferences, select Keyboard -> App Shortcuts -> + Then, just specify

Native QR Code Generation in Swift

Let's see how we can use native Swift code to generate a variety of different barcode and QR code types.

Improved Type Safety With SwiftGen

We'll see how we can use SwiftGen to add type-safety to our project's resources and enable us to write cleaner code.

Native Network Monitoring In Swift

We'll take a look at a native solution for monitoring network connectivity on iOS with Swift 5 and how to use the Network Link Conditioner.

Overloading & Creating New Operators In Swift 5

We'll cover everything you need to know about operator overloading and creating custom operators with unique precedence and associativity behavior.

How to Test Private Variables in Swift

Let's take a look at how we can use Swift's Mirror class to allow access to a class's private properties from our testing target.

DeepLinkr: How To Test Deep Links on iOS

I’ve been hard at work on a new developer tool and I’m excited to announce its launch today. It’s called DeepLinkr and it’s meant to help iOS/macOS developers debug and verify deep link behavior. DeepLinkr comes with both a Mac and iOS app so you

Pull Request Checklist for iOS Developers

In this article, I cover the checklist I use to ensure I create only high-quality, well-tested, and bug-free pull requests.