Layers of Work
Lessons from shipping, breaking, fixing, and scaling software (mostly iOS)
When people talk about modular architecture, they usually mention the same benefits: faster builds, easier testing, clearer ownership. All true. But there's one scenario where modularization quietly proves its worth, and it rarely comes up in architecture discussions: Merging two applications into one.
XcodeGen is a tool for improving the generation of .xcodeproj files and their maintenance over time. By defining a simple YAML manifest you get a whole .xcodeproj in seconds. But that’s not everything! There is one more built-in feature — dependency graphs. In this article, I would like to cover possible use cases of a such graph.
When it comes to modularisation on Apple platforms, development teams point must deal with adding a new module at some point. In this article, I would like to present my approach to automating this work.
A typical iOS project based on the Combine framework at some point defines interfaces that are represented by ‘AnyPublisher’ or ‘AnySubscriber’.
Hey, today I would like to say a few words about my experiences with testing applications. It's a compilation of what I've tried so far with tests through many languages and technologies but especially related to the ones from Apple.
Welcome back to the story of iOS CI at AppUnite company.
It's almost the end of 2019 - exactly 3 years after the U.S. presidential election and maybe America isn't made great again but we all need to admit that it was a pretty good electoral slogan.
Some time ago, when I started working with Reactive Programming concept for developing iOS applications I struggled a lot with testing such products.
A Product Owner doesn’t see any business value in adding automated tests to a project - this problem concerns many projects and software developers.
In this article I want to share my experience with building dependencies by using Carthage. First of all, Carthage shines with simplicity. It's very simple to start using some external dependency in a Xcode project just by adding proper line into Cartfile and running carthage update. But as we all know, life is brutal and sometimes we need to consider more complex examples.