Swift Bite-sized Best Practices is a series of quick reads showing you how to write clean, maintainable, testable, readable Swift code. Read a minute now, save an hour later. Most apps use a custom color palette of specific shades not found among the built-in UIColor constants. The best way to…

Even when they capture self — So you’re fighting the good fight for performant, clean, optimal Swift code, and as a result you’re keeping a weather eye out for sneaky strong reference cycles and the memory leaks they cause. And, as it happens, you have found yourself in a situation that calls for adding a stored…

Use Codable and App Groups to get your iOS 14 widget all the data it needs — So you have your widget up and running, and you’re ready to provide some cool new functionality for your users using the latest iOS features. But how do you connect your widget with your app, so the widget can get at all the nicely modeled object data your app creates? …

All your options for adding the touch indicators you need for your next React Native app demo — When it’s time to show off the app you’ve worked hard to build, it’s important that your demo materials are as clear and polished as possible. That’s where touch indicators come in, allowing users to easily follow app interactions in screen recordings like this one:

A step-by-step walkthrough of the new app App Privacy questionnaire for developers using the AdMob SDK — If you have visited App Store Connect recently, whether to publish a new app or to push an update, you may have noticed a new addition to the App section navigation options…

Get your latest skill metrics delivered to your inbox on a daily basis — because logging into the console is too hard — I am a firm believer in the benefits of monitoring Alexa skill metrics — beyond the important warnings they can give you when something has gone wrong in the wild, it can also be pretty enjoyable to watch good metrics climb! …

Deploy your Cognito user pool and custom triggers in one Serverless stack and understand Serverless a little bit better along the way — Serverless Framework gives you the ability to create a Cognito User Pool, fully configure it, and add custom lambda triggers to it, all in one deployment step. Creating a User Pool Let’s start by setting up a simple Cognito User Pool in the Resources section of our Serverless stack:

Or, how the judiciary’s interpretation of CDA 230 is shaping the future of user-generated content, censorship, liability, and competition — **Update 12/31/2020: This has come to the fore in recent weeks as a result of President Trump’s demands for CDA 230 changes as part of the latest stimulus bill. Enjoy this refresher on the possible ramifications! This past week Tuesday (10/13), the Supreme Court issued a denial of a petition…

What to know about the deals you’re losing, and the ones you’re not — Congratulations! You have made it one full year into your journey of serverless bliss with your current AWS account. And, never ones to forget an important occasion, AWS sent you a nice email with this friendly subject line: Your AWS Free Tier Period is Expiring. So, what does that mean…