Swift Asynchronous Functions
In September 2021 Swift 5.5 was released, and it introduced a new native concurrency model for writing asynchronous and parallel code. This model provides a new syntax for running …
Hacktoberfest! – Celebrating Open Source Software
A quick introduction – Packages, Libraries, and Repos Before we begin, if you’re familiar with these terms, you can skip to the next section. As software developers, we often bring other …
Swift Essentials: Generics
Software developers have long understood the many benefits of code reuse. These benefits include an increase in productivity and code quality, and a decrease in testing and maintenance costs. The idea …
Swift Essentials: Protocols
A protocol is an interface that defines a set of properties and methods which are necessary for a particular piece of functionality. The protocol can then be adopted by a class or structure to provide …
Is Your Android App Ready For Google’s Oreo Mandate?
Almost a year ago Google announced a new policy that has big implications for the Android ecosystem: in order to continue publishing to the Play Store, apps must target a recent version of the SDK. …
Swift Essentials: Extensions
Retroactive modeling is the practice of using existing types to represent new concepts, without modifying those types. This technique is important for reusing existing structures, while maintaining …
Swift Essentials: Closures
Most, if not all, programming languages have a construct for defining reusable sets of instructions. In Swift that construct is a closure. A closure is a self-contained chunk of code that is used to …
Exploring Progressive Web Applications
Over the past few years, the web applications I’ve worked on have increasingly taken a mobile-first design approach. This is great from a presentation standpoint, providing the users with a …
Swift Essentials: Optionals
Swift is designed to be safer than C-based programming languages. For example, Swift is a type safe language, that uses compile-time type checking to help catch errors early in the development …
Swimming in the deep end with RxJava and Android
At E-gineering, we’ve been using RxJava to help us handle networking (with Retrofit) and threading in Android apps due to the ease with which it handles these tasks. As a learning exercise, Nate …
Bringing new life to a Sales application suite. And DevOps!
A little over a year ago, one of our clients came to us and asked if we would take over a project that had fallen into disrepair. Much effort had been expended to get the project off the ground …
Android Data Binding Subtleties
One of the things I love about being an Android developer is the amount of resources available at my fingertips on the Internet. There’s a strong community of developers sharing open source libraries, …
Android UI Testing with Espresso
Android UI testing is often overlooked, although most developers know it’s something that they should be doing. It’s like eating your vegetables – it’s not a pleasant experience for some, but it …