Xcode 13 - Fresh Beginning

Xcode 13

A collection of 5 posts

Xcode 13 - Create a Symbolic Breakpoint on Method Name

Xcode 13 - Create a Symbolic Breakpoint on Method Name

To improve the workflow and productivity, we need to integrate efficiency into our work stream. Efficiency can either be created with its own tooling or using third-party APIs and improvements. In today's blog post, I am going to talk about new efficiency improvements in Xcode 13 in the form of

Advanced Breakpoint Improvements in Xcode 13 (WWDC 2021)

Advanced Breakpoint Improvements in Xcode 13 (WWDC 2021)

At WWDC21, Apple announced various new breakpoint improvements into Xcode 13. In this post, I will go over them and demonstrate how they can benefit your workflow. Previously, setting up breakpoints triggered them where they were not supposed to get triggered or it took a lot of work to work

[iOS][Swift] Storing Custom Objects into UserDefaults or local persistent storage

[iOS][Swift] Storing Custom Objects into UserDefaults or local persistent storage

Welcome to another Swift / iOS post. Today we are going to see a Swifty way of converting custom Swift objects into Data and storing them into NSUserDefaults for later retrieval. A few years ago I was working on a project that involved storing such objects into local persistent storage. It

Async / Await in Swift

Async / Await in Swift

Apple introduced the concept of async/await in Swift 5.5 and announced it in the WWDC21 session. Today, we are going to see it in action and how you can leverage it to write readable async code in your app. Please note that async/await is only available in

How to use Regular Expressions (Regex) in Swift and iOS

Regular Expressions

How to use Regular Expressions (Regex) in Swift and iOS

Regular expressions are a powerful language feature. It allows you to find matches, extract text, or even replace strings in the given input of text. Like many developers, I've had a fair share of fighting with them eventually leading to a loss of confidence and productivity. Every time I need