Sharing the MongoDB Realm Roadmap
After reading Realm's "The Future is Bright" post as they were acquired by MongoDB followed by silence for almost 6 months, I was starting to get a little nervous that the next post might be an "Our Incredible Journey". This is certainly not that though, and I'm hopeful that Realm will be around for many more years to come.
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Like last year, I'll not be taking my normal week off next week. Instead, there will be another "Best of the year in And Finally..." for you all to enjoy, so keep an eye out for that.
I hope you all have a fantastic break for the holidays, and once again, as always thank you for your attention and support this year. Happy Holidays! 🎄
My gut feeling still says that Apple may have a more SwiftUI friendly data persistence story for us at some point in the next couple of years, but until that happens we are where we are and Core Data is very much still a thing... Here's Toomas Vahter writing on how to make them play nicely together.
Next up is Antoine van der Lee with a new utility for working with the simulator. My favourite feature is how it lets you quickly (and repeatedly) launch an app with from a URL, which is great when you're testing deep links (or any links!) into your app. 👍
For full disclosure, Antoine sent me a copy of the app for me as it launched.
The Case for Lists in UICollectionView
The opening paragraphs to Douglas Hill's latest post were the best thing I read this week. It jokingly says "We used to work with someone who wanted to deprecate UITableView
, and the very next thing they did was to get a job with Apple and deprecate UITableView
!" 😂 Amazing. It's also a great post about the new collection view list APIs. 👍
Ultimate Guide To App Monetization💰
Making money from apps is one of the biggest questions indie developers face – so what are our options? This extremely comprehensive resource talks about almost every single tool we have to make money. Listing the pros and cons of each method, as well as effective ways of utilizing them, check out this post next time you're thinking about increasing revenue.
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Hacking my shell prompt so I make less mistakes
Nice tip from Marc Palmer on including various information in your terminal prompt. I don't go as far as the Xcode version (which is something I hadn't seen before) but I do find it essential to include my git branch and clean/dirty status next to the path.