A Passionate Technologists' Journal

This is kinda a note based on the learning I've had working with the Free Hand Drawing(FHD in short) on all the major Maps(Google, Mapbox & Apple Maps) on the market. So, If you'd like to have an in-depth technical understanding, please refer this  post which was my first experience with FHD on Google Maps that delves deep into the Google Maps SDK explaining the FHD functionality & its implementation. And to get a context on the Mapbox based FHD solution, please do refer this blog. What I learned with Apple Maps: Apple Maps iOS SDK doesn't differ much from Mapbox iOS SDK, most of the API's has almost the same signatures/pattern, it almost looks like a copy-paste from a developer(API User)'s perspective, Not sure if Apple Copied from Mapbox or vice-versa(I pick this), but the mapping system works totally different internally especially w.r.t the FHD features like polylines, polygons etc. The FHD works smoother on Apple Maps and there are some major di...

This is only a note on the Blog post I wrote on Medium (that's getting garnered with a huge view counts & some claps, which I see it as a gratitude from the community) on the stuff I learned while developing the Noisli clone app in React Native. I think there's no such tutorial/blog that explains the Pros & Cons and the different ways of developing the React Native apps, hence I think the blog post serves several kinds of people starting from a Fresher to even an Experienced developer who hasn't developed/tried all the approaches. I consider this article as a unique one as some of the people have conveyed/thanked me personally the same way that I had thought of and wrote it initially. I always feel it's better to have multiple touch points to some great posts/articles, hence adding a note here as well for those who haven't seen & would be interested to take a look at. Enjoy!

Recently, I got to know few facts on how exactly Static Library(SL), Fat Frameworks(FF), Static/Dynamic Frameworks(SDF) actually works while I was working on a legacy code base which had a ton of all of the above stuff working altogether. This article is to log the few notes on the struggles we faced with having all these above things mixed up altogether with both Swift & Objective-C mixed up. Static Library(SL): Static Libraries was the initial(Way too Older now) way of code distribution where any project integrating the library would include .a file(Which contains the implementation classes) and all the header '.h' files separately along with the .a file in order for them to work in conjunction. Fat Frameworks(FF): Fat Frameworks are nothing but just the Static Library compressed as a framework, which was a means of distributing the code before Xcode6 when Apple introduced Static/Dynamic Frameworks(SDF). Static/Dynamic Frameworks(SDF): In Frameworks world,...

Recently, I got to work on the MapBox SDK for iOS. So, this is a short journal of my experience with it. Basically, it's a MapBox SDK based freehand drawing article. For those who are here for Google Maps based solution, then please refer this blog  which is again based on  this lib . This is not a Google Maps Vs MapBox debate as well, please make up your mind before starting up. [Note: Am not aware of the updates to the Google Maps SDK since 2015] So, let's start with what I've got to say. I've already created a Freehand Drawing(FHD, in short) tool, implemented way back in 2015, which was based on the Google Maps SDK, hence for MapBox based FHD solution, I was already 50% done. In the existing implementation, I have the touch detection and coordinates collection, polyline drawing & polygon drawing logics already implemented and in place, but all of them were using the GoogleMaps API's. So, the 2 main parts/API's that I'll need to look in M...

Note/ Warning: Am not going to go deeper/step-by-step into the deployment process and I'm not going to go deeper into the Pros & Cons by comparing them against each other, as well.  I just wanted to share my learnings/difficulties faced in the process of deploying my server app to Heroku, Amazon-AWS & Docker-Cloud. Heroku: This is very straight-forward where you have different options: Deploying with Git: Just like how you use Git to push code to your Git repo, you can push your Heroku app onto their server using the very similar commands. This is easiest/simplest way to deploy apps on Heroku. GitHub Integration: If your repo is hosted on GitHub, then this is like a piece of cake, you can simply automate your whole deployment process. Dropbox Sync: If you're not hosting your repo for any reason and just saving them into your Dropbox folder, then also you're covered with the Heroku's easiest Deployment process. You can simply connect your Heroku ac...

This article is just a short overview of this WWDC session. Here are the few things that were discussed as part of the session: 1.) Private variables are now accessible to all the extensions of the class in the same file. 2.) Composing a class with any number of protocols. Example :   protocol  Shakeable {      func  shake() } extension   UIButton :  Shakeable  {} extension   UISlider :  Shakeable  {} func  shakeControls(controls: [ UIControl  &  Shakeable ] ) {      for  control  in  controls  where  control.state.isEnabled {          control.shake()      } } 3.) Swift Versions: Swift 4 is source-compatible with Swift3. Swift3.2 introduced that contains most of the Swift4 syntax changes. So, there will be 2 Swift versions in Xcode9: Swift3.2   & Swift4. The end r...

Hey Guys, Recently the  Functional Reactive Programming(FRP) is getting a lot of traction, hence i started doing it and ended up getting addicted to it so much that Now i’m unable to go back and do the imperative programming at all. So i ended up creating a MOOC course on it, because i saw none of the course on this topic at all. Also, i’ve made sure to cover the best practices (Like VIPER, TDD, POP) followed in the industry to have an added bonus for those who enrol into this course. I’m pretty sure that it will help many people to adopt this awe-somatic way of writing the code. Here’s the link to my course.  For those who prefer to enrol, i can provide offer codes to take it up for a better/lesser price. I would basically like to trade it off for a rating/review on Udemy’s course page. I hope that you’d also share it with your friends and everyone around. Please get the word out. Even if they’re new to iOS programming, i’m pretty sure that it wil...