WWDC2019 - Fresh Beginning

WWDC2019

A collection of 5 posts

Handling Expected Unit Test Failures in Swift and Xcode

Handling Expected Unit Test Failures in Swift and Xcode

Xcode allows developers to make unit testing efficient and free from noise by skipping certain tests with known failure. There are many cases where engineers want unit tests to effectively catch failing code. But how about those where they know tests will fail, but still want to keep those tests

How to create a native iOS WebSocket client and connect it to the server

How to create a native iOS WebSocket client and connect it to the server

In the last post, we saw how to create a web socket server using NWConnection. In this post, we will complete that article by learning how to create an equivalent client which can talk to this server on the specified port. As mentioned in my other article, we will use

Creating a WebSocket server on iOS using NWConnection

In the last couple of blog posts, we saw how to write a client-side code to handle web socket connections using native and third-party support. In this post, I will go over creating a web socket server on iOS in Swift using newly introduced NWConnection in iOS 13. New Project

WebSockets on iOS using URLSessionWebSocketTask

iOS added support for WebSocket starting iOS 13 and they announced it in WWDC2019. Before that, developers had to rely on third-party libraries such as Starscream or SwiftWebSocket. Now with native support, it all becomes quite easy to add on without adding third-party overhead. Previously, I wrote about using WebSockets

Advanced debugging in iOS

Advanced debugging in iOS

Other day I was watching this excellent Session on Advanced debugging with Xcode and LLDB presented at WWDC-2018. My post may be called as a gist of this talk, since this post summarizes the talk and all the examples mentioned in this post are taken from the Apple's video with