At the beginning of March I had the pleasure of attending try!Swift Tokyo 2018 in Japan ⛩. If you have never attended a try!Swift, they are an immersive community gathering with curated talks by the organizer and top of the line workshops the days before and after the conferences.
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On 29th of January, the entire Novoda iOS team attended the dotSwift conference in Paris, France. We came from Berlin, London, Liverpool and Barcelona to spend a weekend there, both to learn and meet other developers, and to spend some much needed bonding time together. dotSwift is the IOS part
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In our last blogpost we deep-dived into Kotlin’s multiplatform project feature and discussed how we can use it to build backend, Android and web applications written in Kotlin. Today we will investigate how we can add an iOS client to such a setup using Kotlin/Native and how easy
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Apple’s newest API, ARKit, makes the exciting world of Augmented Reality available to every iOS developer, but where do you get started? Come with us on an Augmented Reality journey to build an AR solar system and learn how to make your first ARKit application. This post is one
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In this blogpost we will deep dive into JetBrains multiplatform projects feature, why you should consider using it and how you can do so to level up your product development. With Kotlin 1.2 JetBrains introduced a new experimental feature called multiplatform projects. This allows you, as things stand today,
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With software becoming evermore present in our private and professional lives it is probably not surprising that software applications, with all their weaknesses, have also become increasingly interesting to hackers. There exist many different ways to hack applications and crack accounts, e.g. eavesdropping or sniffing network traffic, social engineering
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At Novoda we find it extremely important to measure the efficiency of a team and the quality of our work. To do so, we need tools that help us demonstrate our capability and competence in developing trustable and powerful software, as well as analyzing the code we deliver. Code Analysis
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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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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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