SwiftGen on iOS – automatic content localization. How to make your work with languages easier?

Thanks to CoreSpotlight, users can easily access particular places. It also increases the visibility of apps. Luckily, the implementation of this framework is quite simple.

When bringing to the smartphone market iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, Apple presented to the world 3D Touch. Thanks to the option of checking touch pressure, this function facilitates diversification of interaction of users with their phones at the moment of contact. This allows, for example, implementing application behaviour varying on how you touch a screen.

When getting into the subject of dependency injection, we need to understand numerous new techniques that enable us to control created objects. Dagger allows developers to declare interfaces that will handle that. We can create an interface that will be a component or a subcomponent. What is the difference?

Recently, while browsing through news from Android world I came across the concept of ConstraintLayout. It is a new layout delivered by Android and Google, supporting Android versions from API 9 on. Digging into possibilities it is to give, I decided to check how the new Layout Builder behaves and what is ConstraintLayout like in use.

Each application requires user’s permission to use network, access sensors and memory of the device. API-23, that is Android 6.0, introduced a new model of permissions system. So far, before an installation, a user had to absolutely approve a list of permissions requested by application. Currently applications can push at runtime requests only for the specific permissions needed at a given moment.

As it turns out, many young developers have never created applications in the iOS Developer Center. Showing how to do it seems like a good idea, so I decided to prepare presentation about CloudKit and kill two birds with one stone.

You have to perform operations on images and Java is too slow for that? You want to avoid playing with compiling code using dk? There is a solution! Renderscript will help you with this task. With it you can use parallel operations, executing them both on the CPU and GPU. Everything is available in a very accessible form, so you don’t even have to wonder how to divide the work.

Sooner or later every programmer encounters the problem of synchronous execution of certain actions. For example: get user information from the API, parse server response, save data to the database, update the view, and many others. To make it even more, at some of these stages you still need to deal with error handling. What should you do exactly?

Swift 2.2 is the first official release of this programming language since the time it was made open source. On one hand, there are a few updates interesting to users. On the other hand, the creators decided to withdraw some previously used solutions. Here are some of the most important changes introduced in the new version of Swift.