8 posts tagged with "Xcode"

The App Store release is the start of performance work, not the end.

Most teams test performance before launch. Fewer teams monitor what happens after real users install the app on real devices.

That gap is expensive. A SwiftUI app can pass QA and still suffer from slow launches, memory pressure, animation hitches, disk usage growth, or hangs under real-world conditions.

MetricKit helps close that gap by delivering performance metrics and diagnostics from actual device usage. For template-based SwiftUI apps, this is a practical way to detect regressions after customizing the base code.

This guide covers:

• what MetricKit measures;
• which metrics matter for SwiftUI apps;
• how to connect diagnostics to product areas;
• what to monitor after a template customization;
• how to build a release performance checklist.

Xcode, Apple's primary development environment, offers a multitude of shortcuts to boost your productivity. Familiarizing yourself with these shortcuts can significantly speed up your development process. In this tutorial, we'll delve into the top Xcode shortcuts every iOS developer should have in their arsenal.

At iOS App Templates, we are building fully coded mobile app templates in Swift, to help startups create their mobile products faster. Part of our mission is to provide highly modularized source code so that developers can easily customize and adapt our code to fit their needs. We are starting a tutorial series on iOS Design Patterns in Swift. In this article, we are going to talk about the adapter pattern, which we widely use in our Xcode projects.

Building a mobile app used to be a difficult job and only well-versed mobile developers had the ability to do it. But as the mobile development industry evolved over the last few years, the bar for creating an iOS app lowered, and so did the price. Both entrepreneurs and beginners in programming can easily create their own iOS apps now, with minimum coding skills, thanks to a ton of app templates that have emerged as the mobile industry took off. In this article, we are listing the best free iOS app templates, which you can freely use to create your own app in just a few minutes and with no financial investment. These app templates are also a great way to learn Swift or Objective-C or to just get your hands dirty with the iOS development process.

As an iOS developer spending most of my time in Xcode, I realized how unproductive I was due to constantly switching back and forth between Xcode, Terminal, Github, and Source Tree. As a result, I decided to dive into Xcode Git integration with Github. Let’s take a look at the Github integrated features and how they can help you become a better and more productive iOS developer.

Debugging code written in Swift/Objective-C can be tricky sometimes, especially for someone who’s just starting to learn iOS programming. We’re listing a few techniques and tools for debugging code in Xcode, that any successful mobile app developer should be familiar with. The inspiration for this list was the work we’ve done building our beautiful iOS app templates.

With every release of Xcode, Apple provides us with extremely useful improvements and new features. And as always, from Xcode 11.4 (beta version – up until the publish date of this article), we get another piece of good news from them. That is we can simulate push notifications on the iOS simulator. Finally! Yes, you're not mistaken, it's time to say goodbye to the annoyance of testing on physical devices whenever we want to implement and test push notifications.

Almost any iOS app has a search feature. In fact, all of our functional iOS UI Kits have a search functionality. To this point, we’ve decided to write this Swift tutorial on UISearchController, walking you through building a search feature for your iOS app in Swift. Our app templates have more complex searching logic, since they are hooked to Firebase backend, which is where the searchable data is being retrieved from. For the purpose of this tutorial, we’ve simplified the UISearchController, to simply display a search bar in the navigation bar, by relying on static data, rather than data generated by a server.