How we ran and measured an A/B test as part of our paywall increasing our subscription rates by 10%

A coding challenge is an important part of hiring in engineering, Here's 7 do’s and dont’s for designing coding challenges

Enums and structs are some of Swift's most powerful APIs, and they can greatly improve code comprehension. But how do you decide which one to use?

Knowing where to put business logic is in my opinion one of the most important pieces of software development. When I have the choice of placing it in the backend or frontend, here are the decision…

Here's a few easy tricks to making your SwiftUI and UIKit previews even faster

Over my career, I've had to learn a few frameworks, languages, and technologies. I've been asked a few times how I did it, and whilst there's no silver bullet, there's a set of rules I follow when…

Enums and structs are some of Swift's most powerful APIs, and they can greatly improve code comprehension. But how do you decide which one to use?

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How we used migrated from Dagger to Hilt for our Android app to make dependency injection simpler

How we developed the app with a brand new UI.

How we've started to build our own custom lint rules to enforce code style and easy-to-miss subtle gotchas.

Trying to migrate an iOS app to Mac Catalyst and the issues and benefits along with it.

A few weeks ago, a Freetrade customer reported that the Android app was being slow. This follows our deep-dive into finding and solving the issue.

Foldable devices look to be the next big thing in mobile development. How as a developer do you support them; and as a CTO, should you?

Unit testing is great, isn’t it? Not only can it help you improve your code, but it can ensure that you don’t mess anything up the next time you come to change it. The downside with testing is that it…

Whilst looking innocuous, booleans are often a source of code complexity and can frequently be a code smell. Why is this, and what can you do about it?

I've struggled a lot with stress levels over the last few years. I am aware that I am a naturally uptight person, and highly competitive, so that I believe is as much a product of who I am as the…

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…

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…

In what is probably shocking to anyone who knows me, I’ve recently finished two whole technical books. I’m starting to dig a bit deeper into Swift and iOS at Novoda, and, as at part of one of my…

Pretty much every project you’ll touch will have the concept of time in it. It is a concept that scares developers; makes even the most seasoned engineer doubt themselves; and makes most of us end up…

The Christmas coding conclusion part 1: the web app I set myself a target to write an Android, iOS, and web app over the Christmas period. Here are my learnings from the first one I produced, which…

Want to read the conclusion? Go here! This Christmas, I’ve decided to set myself a coding challenge — develop a simple app across Android, iOS, and the responsive web. I’m going to be developing a…