iOS Accessibility Support Within SwiftUI
Accessibility in our iOS applications is something we should all strive for. To be inclusive and have our applications available to all is a massive goal for us at Monstarlab in every project we undertake. To accommodate to each user, whatever their needs...
Code Coverage with SonarQube and Bitrise for Swift
At Monstarlab, we are using SonarQube to gather metrics about the quality of our code. One of the metrics we were interested in is code coverage. However, just running sonar-scanner on the project will not upload the coverage data to our instance of Sonar...
WWDC22 - A first look at Apple's new Augmented Reality features
Over 34 million developers are part of Apple's developers community with access to great frameworks including AR specific ones like ARKit and RealityKit. Here is an overview of what we know so far from this year's WWDC when it comes to augmented reality, ...
ARAnchors - Bringing virtual objects into the real world
At Monstarlab we have some incredible talent when it comes to building AR experiences. Some of the work I have seen my colleagues produce has simply blown me away. Really creative, innovative experiences that can often at times blur the line between augme...
iOS: Automating the upload of DSYM files to Firebase using Fastlane & Bitrise
What was the issue? Crash reporting is something that's hugely important for all our apps. It allows us to easily find issues within our apps and can give us helpful advice on where to fix them. For our crash reporting, we use Firebase Crashlytics. For th...
Gender Equality Detection in Written Text
Gender is a social construct Gender and sex are two different things. From a very young age, we see different roles played by our father and mother. We see society treating a boy and a girl differently. Children are told not to play certain games or wear ...
Predicting Maternal Morbidity using Machine Learning Techniques
Machine learning (ML) is expected to make the hunt for new health care quicker, cheaper, and more effective. It could be taught to identify concerning trends quickly, while also improving its models over time and potentially proposing courses of action. ...
UITableView DataSource Prefetching
Apple has introduced an API for prefetching the data for a UITableView or UICollectionView in iOS 10. This is a short story about how to implement the UITableViewDataSourcePrefetching protocol. Let's learn how to make our apps buttery smooth, richer, and ...
Swift: From Protocol to AssociatedType then Type Erasure
When Swift was made, it had been the first protocol-oriented programming language. Though Swift is great for object-oriented programming, but from the way for-loops and String literals work to the emphasis in the standard library on generics, at its heart...