Some Kind Of Code

Generating an API SDK

Being tired of writing all the endpoint and model declarations for a new projects, I went down the rabbit hole of generating an SDK based on a swagger documentation

guide:codables

Codables: (De)Serializing - Ch. 2: Coding Keys

CodingKeys are created to map data between your model and the data. These are mostly created as an enum to easily map the data in a custom decoding or encoding logic. If you don't declare the keys yourself, the compiler will do this automatically for you. But as we want

guide:codables

Codables: (De)Serializing - Ch. 1: Coder Options

The first chapter to customize your Codable (de)serialization is about the options of your selected Decoder and Encoder.

guide:codables

Codables: The Basics

Codables are a very useful tool if you need to decode from or to different formats like JSON. Get your introduction into Codables here.

iOS

WatchConnectivity and App Lifetime

I'm currently playing around with watchOS and communicating with the main iOS App. The basic and easiest way since watchOS 2 and iOS 9 is to use the WatchConnectivity Framework provided by Apple. It's very simple by using the WCSession instance you can access by WCSession.default and assign a

Swift

Melting Values

Let a value invalidate x-seconds after it has been set. Usable if information has not to be hold on all the time (like a timeout message or something) class Melt<Element> { var value: Element? { didSet { self.timer?.invalidate() self.timer = Timer.scheduledTimer( timeInterval: self.lifetime, target: self, selector:

Swift

Memory leaks by custom delegate

Working with delegates is a common practice in the coding world of iOS and macOS developers. Many of the core APIs like UITableView have delegates that are called to execute functions so they can get or pass information to another control. It is easy to use as closures don't always

cocoapods

Moving away from CocoaPods

When you develop native in Apples environment, you stumble over CocoaPods to implement 3rd party libraries in your apps. It adds dependencies that can be installed separately and don't have to be stored in your respositories. I used it for a few years now, but it gets worse every week