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Latest — Oct 17, 2025

The Fast Engineer Trap

At one of my first jobs out of college, I worked at a tiny development agency - just me, one other iOS engineer, and the founder. The founder was a retired iOS engineer who'd published a few programming books and built several successful apps - and, being fresh

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I Built a Bay Area Transit App to Solve My Own Commute

Like a lot of folks in the Bay Area, I rely on public transit—BART, Caltrain, Muni, AC Transit—to get around. But keeping track of routes and schedules across all these providers was more frustrating than it needed to be. So, I built Commuter: Bay Area —a clean, reliable

Time-Based View Updates in SwiftUI

SwiftUI's TimelineView is a powerful feature for building views that update according to whatever schedule you provide. Whether you're creating a real-time clock, a countdown timer, or periodic data visualizations, TimelineView simplifies the process by letting you schedule updates with fine-grained control. What is TimelineView? A

Creating a macOS Screensaver in SwiftUI

A few months ago, I wrote an article titled Recreating The DVD Screensaver In SwiftUI. In this post, we'll take it one step further and we'll turn it into a macOS screensaver. To get started, create a new Xcode project and select Screen Saver: The new

Implementing Shared With You in SwiftUI

This is a companion article to my presentation about "Creating Shareable Experience" at iOSDevUK 2024 in Aberystwyth. Have you ever lost track of a link, a song, or some other recommendation a friend has sent you in a busy chat? It happens to all of us and, fortunately,

iOSDevUK 2024 Source Code & Slides

I'll be speaking at iOSDevUK later this week and wanted to make the source code for the demo apps available in advance. Creating Shareable Experiences.pdfGoogle Docs https://github.com/aryamansharda/SharedWithYouDemo GitHub - aryamansharda/TicTacToe: GroupActivity DemoGroupActivity Demo. Contribute to aryamansharda/TicTacToe development by creating an account

Using @DebugDescription in Xcode 16

Debugging can be tricky, especially with custom types. Clear and informative debug output is essential for understanding the behavior of your code. That's where the CustomDebugStringConvertible protocol and @DebugDescription macro come in. In this article, we'll take a look at how to work with this protocol

Blend Modes in SwiftUI

Blend modes play a crucial role in digital design, enabling designers to easily create complex visual effects like overlays and textures. They're essential for tasks like photo manipulation, creating lighting effects, and adding depth to images. Blend modes, as the name suggests, blends the colors of multiple layers

Mastering Animatable and AnimatablePair in SwiftUI

SwiftUI makes creating animations a breeze, but sometimes you need a bit more control over how things move and animate. In this article, we'll explore Animatable and AnimatablePair and we'll see how we can use these APIs to craft more advanced animations in our apps. But,

Useful Aliases for Everyday iOS Development

In this post, we'll cover a bunch of handy aliases for Xcode, CocoaPods, Git, and more that will help make your workflow more efficient. These tips will help you spend less time context switching and more time coding. ℹ️ We'll look at how to add these