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I Wrote a Guest Post for Emerge Tools!

Jacob’s Tech Tavern • 576 implied HN points • 26 Feb 24
đź•ą Technology Apps Tools iOS Engineering Startups
  1. The blog post compares the Twitter and X iOS app binaries, revealing insights like extra app icons and heavy use of dynamic libraries.
  2. Emerge Tools offers valuable solutions for mobile engineers to monitor their app's size and performance.
  3. The author recommends subscribing to Jacob's Tech Tavern for more insightful posts and to show support for the work.

Le futur de la messagerie instantanée

Venture Prose • 479 implied HN points • 12 Feb 23
đź•ą Technology Messaging Privacy Innovation iOS Communication
  1. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed by notifications, prioritize important connections over others.
  2. Consider using messaging platforms like Roze that prioritize privacy and control over who you chat with.
  3. Focus on quality interactions by selecting a limited number of close contacts for messaging, rather than being bombarded with irrelevant notifications.

How to (consistently) get 4.8* App Ratings [Storytime Saturdays]

Technology Made Simple • 1 HN point • 30 Mar 24
đź•ą Technology App Development User Experience iOS Startup Growth
  1. Consistently achieve high app ratings like 4.8". It's not easy, but it's simple. Understand two key concepts: asking for reviews and identifying 'wow' moments.
  2. Requesting app reviews is crucial. Users rarely leave reviews on their own, so ask for feedback using StoreKit APIs in iOS and strategically place these requests at key points in your app's critical path.
  3. Focus on delivering 'wow' moments in your app, ask for reviews at that peak point. Balancing user satisfaction with review requests on the critical path is essential for maintaining a high app rating.
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Unit Test the Observation Framework

Jacob’s Tech Tavern • 2 HN points • 13 Nov 23
đź•ą Technology iOS Unit Testing Swift
  1. Unit testing @Observable view models is crucial for ensuring reliability and stability in iOS development.
  2. The Observation Framework provides a solution for testing @Observable properties using withObservationTracking, improving the unit testing process.
  3. By leveraging the ObservationTestUtils package, developers can streamline unit testing of @Observable view models with less boilerplate code.

Advanced Swift Actors: Re-entrancy & Interleaving

Jacob’s Tech Tavern • 2 HN points • 10 Oct 23
đź•ą Technology Swift Concurrency Actors Authentication iOS
  1. Understanding Swift actors is crucial for managing re-entrancy and interleaving in your code.
  2. Building an optimal authentication service involves utilizing Swift actors to minimize duplicate work and network overhead.
  3. Swift concurrency model utilizes cooperative threading, executors, and actors to create an illusion of single-threadedness and prevent data races.

Apple Animation Through the Ages: 2014

Jacob’s Tech Tavern • 0 implied HN points • 19 Sep 23
đź•ą Technology Animation Graphics Programming iOS Frameworks
  1. In 2014, Apple introduced Metal as a high-performance graphics API for iOS, catering to graphics-intensive applications like mobile games.
  2. Metal provided low-level access to GPU hardware, aiming to improve performance by reducing bottlenecks caused by OpenGL ES drivers running on the CPU.
  3. Developers using Metal had to work more closely with the hardware, writing shaders and managing rendering pipelines for efficient graphics processing.