Legacy of iOS app development This blog provides a brief overview of the importance of choosing the right framework for iOS app development Evolution of iOS App Development Frameworks Legacy of UIKit UIKit has been the go-to framework for developing iOS apps for many years. Its robust features and extensive documentation have made it a popular choice among developers. …

Swift and Kotlin Variable Types — I am an iOS engineer and Swift is my language of choice but lately I started learning Kotlin and while learning I found out the similarities between both the languages. So, I thought of capturing the similarities to help other engineers out there who are planning to learn Kotlin as…

Data densification is a largely undocumented aspect of Tableau that can be useful in many circumstances but can also be confusing when encountered unexpectedly. In this article we will provide information about data densification with the intent of dispelling confusion and providing the Tableau author with sufficient knowledge to use…

Use cases and Implementation — In this article, we’re going to learn about enumerations in Swift or as they’re more commonly known, enums. An enumeration defines a common type for a group of related values and enables you to work with those values in a type-safe way within your code — swift.org Enumerations are used…

A brief introduction to modern-day databases — More than seven of the world’s top 10 retailers use Graph databases. Top retailers like eBay and Walmart rely on Graph databases to drive recommendations, promotions, and streamline logistics. Eight of the top 10 insurance companies, top insurers like die Bayerische, Optum Healthcare, and Allianz, rely on Graph databases to…

Use a self-trained Core ML model for image classification — In a previous article — Build iOS-ready machine learning models using Create ML—we learned how to create and train our own Core ML model using Xcode. Then, we learned how to fine-tune these custom models to provide accurate results. For that, check out the following tutorial: Create ML — Increasing…

Apple’s new state driven declarative UI Framework — Apple rocked the iOS world with WWDC 2019 when it announced its new state-driven, declarative UI framework. It is a change for the better and in this article we will introduce the framework and touch up on some of its new component primitives. Before we get started, many of you…

Solving overfitting — In my previous tutorial—Build iOS-ready machine learning models using Create ML—we discussed how to use our own data and categories to train custom ML models ready for iOS. We used our training dataset (link) to achieve training and validation accuracy of 91% and 89%, respectively. In this article, we’ll discuss…

Anatomy of the Sequence protocol — A sequence is a list of values that you can step through one at a time. Swift sequences are one of the most fundamental concepts present in the language and we can use it to create custom collection types. The biggest advantage of using sequences as foundation blocks for custom…