UI database bindings with Realm & ReactiveKit

UITableView is truly a heart of iOS user interface. It does not matter whether you are changing settings, going through unread emails or sending messages. Provided that you have used your iOS device recently, it is almost certain that you have stumbled upon a table view. Rendering a table with…

To storyboard or not to storyboard?

Storyboards are known to "divide" iOS developers since their introduction in iOS 5. Almost five years have passed and the consensus about when to (not) use them still remains. It is probably because of the fact that using storyboards has as many benefits as drawbacks[1] so it is more…

iDev recipes: managing filesystem chaos

iDev recipes is a series of short articles that present ways of dealing with common problems while developing apps for Apple devices. One of the most frustrating things about Xcode is that project layout does not have to reflect directory structure. It seems like a powerful feature at first, but…