It’s all too easy to pass information around in your code as strings or ints, but this can soon catch up with you. Swift has a powerful set of protocols to avoid this situation, which can ensure your code is still well-modelled, whilst being easy to write. Ensuring your
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Android Things works by creating an Android app and tying it to peripherals using User Drivers. These peripherals come in a variety of forms, this post will explore their differences and commonalities to help you understand where User Driver code fits in your architecture & codebase. When using peripherals, you
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Swift as a programming language focuses on making APIs descriptive and determinate. Completion blocks are less than perfect — but what is wrong with them, and how can we improve their usage? The completion block is a very familiar pattern in both Objective-C and Swift. It is a useful feature that
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Keeping your code clean is no easy task. Clean code allows your project to pass the test of time. It can be broken down into making your code simple to read, write, and understand. This post will explain how you can clean up your class fields to move towards a
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Single Responsibility[1], Beware the Share[1:1], Boyscout Rule[1:2]. These are some conventions that guide good practice in software development and I believe naming can benefit from these ideas and other practices. This blog post will discuss class naming using Model View Presenter as the example and
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I remember one of the first tasks I paired on when I first joined Novoda. We were rewriting an Android legacy application but the rewrite conserved some of the old services. In this post I will describe the journey we took to deep dive, evaluate and craft this code to
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