The iOS internationalization basics I keep forgetting

Localizations, locales, timezones, date and currency formatting... it's shocking how easy is to forget how they work and how to use them correctly. In this article, I try to summarize the bare minimum one needs to know to add internationalization support to an iOS app.…

Modular iOS Architecture @ Just Eat

> The journey we took to restructure our mobile apps towards a modular architecture. Originally published on the Just Eat Engineering Blog [https://tech.just-eat.com/2019/12/18/modular-ios-architecture-just-eat/]. Overview Modular mobile architectures have been a hot topic over the past 2 years, counting a plethora of articles and conference…

Lessons learned from handling JWT on mobile

> Implementing Authorization on mobile can be tricky. Here are some recommendations to avoid common issues. Originally published on the Just Eat Engineering Blog [https://tech.just-eat.com/2019/12/04/lessons-learned-from-handling-jwt-on-mobile/] . Overview Modern mobile apps are more complicated than they used to be back in the early days and developers…

Deep Linking at Scale on iOS

> How the iOS team at Just Eat built a scalable architecture to support navigation and deep linking. Originally published on the Just Eat Engineering Blog [https://tech.just-eat.com/2019/04/16/deep-linking-at-scale-on-ios/]. In this article, we propose an architecture to implement a scalable solution to Deep Linking on iOS…

Principal Manifesto

Edit: in 2020, Will Larson published Staff Engineer, the first book that properly reasons about Staff+ roles. I cannot recommend the book, the articles, and the podcast enough. You can find all about them at staffeng.com. To extend the tech career ladder, a number of roles have been introduced…

The easiest State Machine in Swift

Here's another article of the serie "The easiest ". Previous ones on Core Data (The easiest Core Data [https://albertodebortoli.com/2016/08/05/the-easiest-core-data/]) and Future and Promises (The easiest promises in Swift [https://albertodebortoli.com/2018/02/12/the-easiest-promises-in-swift/]). It was a cold Sunday afternoon when I decided to

The template for View Controller unit testing

Hot topics like this one, testing view controllers, often come back from time to time and get some updates. It probably all started with Testing View Controllers [https://www.objc.io/issues/1-view-controllers/testing-view-controllers/] by Daniel Eggert back in 2013. Now quite out-dated as in Objective-C and showing examples of…