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When Swift introduced actors in Swift 5.5, many developers breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, a language-level construct that would protect us from data races! But here's the uncomfortable truth: actors don't eliminate data races—they just change wh...
The safest way is to keep your API keys server side. But if you have a library that's useable offline and it requires a license key to unlock, you will need a way to securely store that license key at runtime, without access to a server. Strap your h...
Someone asked me that question earlier. Well, as with everything else, it depends. First, if your module/library will need to be distributed with assets, you should go with a .xcframework as it can include additional files. Manually distributing a ...
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When creating a Swift class or actor, if you don't intend to override any of the functions in that class you should use the final keyword. Here's an example of why this is important: Notice that the attacker did not even need to match the function n...
We have been drilled that we should strip debugging symbols before releasing our app on the App Store. Apple even does this automatically for us in the build settings when we create a new project. However when we are using Swift as our programming la...
I've been aware of typealias for a long time. It's only recently that I really started to understand just how powerful this keyword can be. Let me share why I think they are the underestimated champion for unit tests and dependency injection. Referen...
