iOS Goodies

Articles

• Real-time object detection with YOLO, by @mhollemans
• UIKit Global Functions, by @JordanMorgan10
• Gotchas When Implementing iOS 10 Rich Notifications, by @weareprolific
• Fake AppDelegate For Unit Testing In Swift, by @MarcoSantaDev
• Automatic bridging from Swift to Objective-C using Sourcery, by @miguelquinon

Tools/Controls

• whats-new-in-swift-4, by @olebegemann
• Anchors, by @onmyway133
• Workaround for building Swift static libraries (in frameworks) in Xcode, by @SmileyKeith
• DeckTransition, by @harshilshah1910

Business

• My Startup Failed, I Lost Everything. Here’s What I Learned, by The Startup Journey
• “Thank God I Don’t Have a Job”, by @ToddBrison

UI/UX

• Design for Fingers, Touch, and People, Part 2, by @shoobe01
• How Travel Sites Use UI Patterns to Nudge Customers, by Julia Chen
• 6 Ways to Make Usability Hygiene Work for You, by Nick Babich
• Design principle: IKEA effect, by @ainikolovai
• Creating Personas: Guide, by @ben_ralph

Videos

• UIKonf 2017 videos

Credits

• onmyway133, rbarbosa, prolificinteractive, MarcoSantarossa, mariusc, @brunoacpires, LisaDziuba, naeemshaikh90, DarthMike

Welcome to a new publication for Swift community by @pragmaswift!

Articles

• Back Buttons and Coordinators, by @khanlou
• Swift Arrays Holding Elements With Weak References, by MarcoSantaDev
• All about Concurrency in Swift - Part 1: The Present, by @uraimo
• Adding Continuous Integration to a Swift project, by @johnsundell
• Unit Testing Nibs in Swift #1 and #2, by @joesus

Tools/Controls

• GRDB.swift, by @groue
• Pastel, by Cruz
• ShadowImageView, by Old Donkey
• Highlighter, by @younatics
• LicensePlist, by @_mono
• FlexibleImage, by Jungwon An

Business

• What I Wish I Had Considered Before Becoming A Digital Nomad, by @a_purbasari
• Scrum makes you dumb, by @danieljoneseb
• Damage, by @mattgemmell

UI/UX

• UX Designers Hate Scrum for a Reason, by @DraganOfficial
• I Got Rejected by Apple Music… So I Redesigned It, by @JasonYuanDesign
• Bulletproof User Onboarding, by @SamuelHulick
• Meetup: A Usability Case Study, by @chenchilllaaa

Videos

• Good iOS Application Architecture: MVVM, MVC, VIPER Which Architecture is the Best?, by @merowing_

Credits

• LisaDziuba, rbarbosa, naeemshaikh90, MarcoSantarossa, mariusc, uraimo

• Major apps abandoning Apple Watch, including Google Maps, Amazon & eBay 🤔

Articles

• Preserves Superview Layout Margins, by @kharrison
• SwiftLint doing its best to ease conflict, by @wibosco
• Deep Dive Into iOS Automation At Grab - Continuous Delivery, by @xiangxinsun
• Avoiding Massive View Controllers by refactoring, by @roch4brun

Tools/Controls

• TestDrive, by @johnsundell
• Toolbar, by @1amageek
• XcodeColorSense2, by @onmyway133

Business

• How to make Apple Search Ads work for your App, by @DenZhadanov
• Creating iMessage Apps Your Users Will Love, by @weareprolific
• Basecamp’s handbook, by @basecamp

UI/UX

• Redesign Checkout Process of Lazada Mobile App, by @soundCreativ
• Modal & Nonmodal Dialogs: When (& When Not) to Use Them, by @TBFessenden

Credits

• LisaDziuba, naeemshaikh90, onmyway133, rbarbosa, prolificinteractive, yangshun, tevelee

• Apple commits to source compatibility by adding regression tests against open source projects.

Articles

• Migrating To Coordinators, by @khanlou
• A Beginning’s Guide to Lottie: Creating Amazing Animations in iOS Apps, by @simonng
• Adding Playgrounds to Xcode Projects, by @kharrison
• Haptic Feedback makes you vibrate!, by @marius_const
• Time traveling in Swift unit tests, by @johnsundell

Tools/Controls

• FlexiblePageControl, by shima11
• Clue, by @ahmed_sulajman
• BouncyLayout, by @Robert-Hein

Business

• Don’t Promise, by @jasonfried
• People Don’t Want Something Truly New, They Want the Familiar Done Differently, by @nireyal
• You won’t win until they start betting against you, by @TheMissionT
• The Art of Writing One-Sentence Product Descriptions, by @davesuperman

UI/UX

• Painting with Code, by @jongold
• A design lesson 3.5 billion years in the making, by @k00
• Design principle: Aesthetics, by @ainikolov

Videos

• Architecting for Reusability, by @weareprolific
• Functional Swift Conference 2017

Credits

• prolificinteractive, naeemshaikh90, mariusc, LisaDziuba, rbarbosa, Robert-Hein

• AsyncDisplayKit has a new home called Texture

Articles

• The Algebra of Predicates and Sorting Functions, by @mbrandonw
• Deep Dive Into iOS Automation At Grab - Integration Testing, by @xiangxinsun
• Swift Enums Are “sum” Types. That Makes Them Very Interesting, by Mislav Javor

Tools/Controls

• YetAnotherAnimationLibrary, by Luke Zhao
• YNSearch, by @younatics
• PersistentStorageSerializable, by Ivan Rublev
• Cluster, by @lasha_

Business

• How I left my consulting career behind and broke into tech, by @rahuldotiyer
• Creativity can be worked out, by @dormic_wwa

UI/UX

• 24 Ways to Look Like an Awesome UX Designer, by @GuyLigertwood
• Information Architecture. The Most Important Part of Design You’re Probably Overlooking., by @_JacobRuiz

Videos

• Making Mock Objects More Useful, by @qcoding
• Server-Side Swift Live Coding, by @tnantoka
• Building Your Own Tools, by @orta

Indie Apps

• Evolution, by @tholanda

Credits

• orenidan, naeemshaikh90, LisaDziuba, yangshun

• TestFlight was updated with some pretty cool features

• Goodies is almost 3 years old. We have a huge support from people in our github, and for that: Thank you. However, we would like to evolve goodies so we need another kind of support. That is why we created a patreon account.

Supporters

• This edition was sponsored by @phelgo and Adriano Gonçalves

Articles

• Handling non-optional optionals in Swift, by @johnsundell
• Using protocol compositon for dependency injection, by @merowing_
• VisualKit: creating a UI Framework, by @victorbaro
• Analysis of the Facebook.app for iOS, by @timacfr
• 100% Coverage of Edge Cases: How to Safely Parse JSON, by @qcoding

Tools/Controls

• Nora, by @SD10
• Selenops, by @zntfdr
• MBIcons, by @Cornel_Viorel
• EmojiIntelligence, by @Reffas_Bilal, Luubra
• SquishButton, by @BalestraPatrick

Business

• 70ish Life and Business Lessons for Designers, by @hemeon
• For programmers, the ultimate office perk is avoiding the office entirely, by @onyxfish

UI/UX

• How United Onboards New Users, by @samuelhulick
• Design principle: Consistency, by @ainikolov
• Interesting Takes on Log in / Sign Up Forms, by @chriscoyier
• Is the Floating Action Button Bad UX Design? by Tom Jager

Videos

• Git at Scale: Managing Swift/Obj-C Code & Coders, by @asparagui

Credits

• SD10, OrenID, naeemshaikh90, LisaDziuba, mariusc, rbarbosa

• Canvas has announced that they will close doors. Fortunately they were kind enough to open source their work (available here) and their iOS app here.
• Congratz if you got the golden ticket! 😎 In case you haven’t, there are still enough reasons to be around San Jose during the WWDC. 
• raywenderlich.com released the RxSwift book, which based on our preliminary reading is pretty good! If you want to get your feet wet into FRP, you should definitely have a look. 😊
  

Articles

• Analyzing Third Party Libraries, by @benjaminbrooks
• Memory leak in Swift: Assigning a function to a closure, by @lucianomarisi
• Safety In Swift, by @khanlou
• Thoughts on Swift access control, by @jesse_squires
  
• Swift + Attributes, by @jordanmorgan10

Tools/Controls

• EFQRCode, by EyreFree
  
• SwiftSpreadsheet, by @stuffrabbit, indiControl
  
• SwiftyOnboard, by Juan Pablo Fernandez
• create-dmg, by @sindresorhus
• Gliding Collection, by @ramotion

Business

• March Mobile Advertising Round Up, by @weareprolific

UI/UX

• User Experience Engineering, by @enjalot
• Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto, by @UX_in_Motion

Credits

• naeemshaikh90, LisaDziuba, prolificinteractive, lucianomarisi, rbarbosa

• Apple has acquired Workflow 😮, by @panzer

Articles

• On Comments, by @khanlou
• CallKit Tutorial for iOS, by @j_vesza
• You Probably Don’t Want enumerated(), by @khanlou
• What’s New in Swift 3.1?, by @KaramazovShogun
• Unidirectional data flow with RxSwift and RxRealm, by @icanzilb

Tools/Controls

• FengNiao, by @onevcat
• Dispatch , by @alexdrone
• Magnetic, by @lasha_
• Gallery, by hyperoslo

Business

• Why Side Projects Should be Stupid, by @vanschneider
• Full-Time Indie iOS Dev and Music Enthusiast: A Top Dev Interview With Alex Andrews, by @adam9rush

UI/UX

• What Bots Can Do, that websites and apps can’t, by @kiptalk
• Conversions: Mobile Patterns for Experiments, by @lukew
• Fitbit: A UX Case Study, by @stacelywang
• Designing Charts — Principles Every Designer Should Know, by @Ryan_Bales

Podcasts

• Selling Apps, by @_RelayFM

Credits

• naeemshaikh90, mariusc, LisaDziuba, ramshandilya, mluisbrown, rbarbosa, onmyway133

• Apple launched a security guide for iOS 10!
• We are proud to support SwiftAveiro! Here is the story of the event and 2017 line up. If you want to visit Portugal don’t miss this chance.

Articles

• System Level Breakpoints in Swift, by @danielpunkass
• Variable Height Table View Header, by @kharrison
• Linear Interpolation and Fading Hairlines, by @raizlabs
• Swift Needs a Scope Keyword, by @jaredsinclair

Tools/Controls

• Transition, by @touchwonders
• Touch Bar Simulator, by @sindresorhus
• CFAlertViewController, by @crowdfire
• and… an Apple Watch Gameboy Emulator!, by @_gabrieloc

Business

• How to Build a Product Loved by Millions and Get Acquired by Google: The Firebase Story, by @fcollective

UI/UX

• Mobile menu inspiration, by @usemuzli
• Screenshot? Ugh, you’re doing it wrong!, by @jasonzimdars
• No Share Buttons on Mobile Sites (Except this one Weird Case), by @bigmediumjosh

Videos

• Everything you ever wanted to know about sequence and collection, by @khanlou

Credits

• Naeemshaikh90, rbarbosa, LisaDziuba, rahul-malik, msaps, younatics, adamcichy

Articles

• Common unit testing techniques on iOS, by @ lucianomarisi
• The problem with macOS and Drawing, by @ericasadun
• The Recipe for Singletons Removal, by @albertodebo
• IB Free in Practice 1: Managing a Modal, by @jAtSway

Tools/Controls

• Gitee, by Weiping Huang
• Spruce iOS Animation Library, by WillowTree, Inc.
• ReverseExtension, by @marty_suzuki
• PPRows, by jkpang
• GodEye, by zixun
• CHIPageControl, by Chili Labs

Business

• What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer, by @nolanlawson
• These Failed Apps Discovered a Hidden Rule of the Web, by @mirandakatz
• How Slack Supports Junior Engineers, by @carlyhasredhair
• ShatChat, by @mgsiegler

UI/UX

• Iteration is not design, @toddols
• Uber Navigation, by Cady Wachsman
• Battling Perfectionism, by @joulee
• Sketch 43 is coming to town with a new game. An open file format! by @jasim_ab

Videos

• UI and Snapshot Testing, by @Lascorbe

Credits

• naeemshaikh90, LisaDziuba, lucianomarisi, ramshandilya, prolificinteractive, albertodebortoli, rbarbosa