Have you heard of Wordle? Chances are you have as it really went viral on Twitter the past few weeks. It’s a simple game that’s truly addictive. We were also “infected” with the Wordle hype, played a lot, and realized that it’s the perfect project for getting started with SwiftUI! So in less than two […]
When your iOS (or macOS) app needs to read data from a nearby Bluetooth device – how do you decode the data included in the BLE characteristics? At QuickBird Medical, we often work with medical devices. Our apps need to safely read health data from those devices via BLE, so we’ve had our fair share […]
It’s rare that you juggle with bits and bytes in Swift because of its neat static type system. Most of the time, you don’t care what’s under the hood – you just work with classes, structs, and enums or primitive types like Int, Float or String. But sooner or later, almost every Swift developer gets […]
Facing the Corona virus, many companies around the globe need to switch to remote work right now. While this is required by law in some places, we see it as our social obligation towards society. Doing home office for a couple of weeks or months won’t kill us – but if we refrain from doing […]
“Your code sucks!” – It’s usually not what the reviewer said, but that’s how we perceive it sometimes when our code is being reviewed. We feel challenged or even provoked. Our pride is at stake! So we either begin lengthy discussions to defend ourselves or we blindly adapt the code for the sake of friendship and […]
