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Network Request

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Running async network operations in parallel on iOS using async-await

Running async network operations in parallel on iOS using async-await

Running parallel network operations on iOS was not always a smooth process. I remember that at my previous jobs, developers opted to use either third-party libraries or DispatchGroup to trigger parallel requests. These solutions had their own pros and cons. Using DispatchGroup in the code was tedious and its block-based

POSTing parameters to PHP from an iOS app

POSTing parameters to PHP from an iOS app

Recently I ran into an interesting problem on how to POST parameters from an iOS app (I was using AFNetworking for communications) to PHP. Looks like it's quite straightforward for GET requests such that you can easily retrieve parameters with $_GET['parameter_name']. But for POST it's little complicated. Here's