#networking

Dealing with a JSON network response in iOS projects used to be a pain - you would have to manually parse the response, extract the required values, ignore those that weren't needed, and build your model instances 🤮. Then came along `Codable` and all that changed.…

Many of us feel nervous when meeting a group of people for the first time. What are the dynamics of the group, what are the in-jokes, will I find common ground with someone - are just a few questions that can plague you…

Networking is central to how most apps add value to their users which is why significant effort has been put into creating an easy to use networking layer by both Apple and the open-source community…

In the past iOS was always about living in the moment - totally focused on whatever the user was attempting to do. This approach was good news for users as it allowed for a very responsive user experience on performance constrained devices however as app developers it limited what we could do…

Once upon a time, an app was just a stripped-down version of a website. Those days are long gone. Our users now expect to be able to do everything through the app that they can do through the website…

Most iOS apps will have a networking component, in previous posts I've written about treating the network call and parsing as one task [https://williamboles.com/networking-with-nsoperation-as-your-wingman/] or how to cut down on unneeded network calls by coalescing [https://williamboles.com/remo…

In "Coalescing NSOperations" [https://williamboles.com/coalescing-nsoperations/] I wrote about coalescing NSOperations however, during the writing of that article, I began to explore other ways that I could coalesce operations. One solution I discovered has all the benefits of the previous…

> This post is now outdated, please instead check out my newer post on Coalescing Operations [https://williamboles.com/removing-bolierplate-when-coalescing-nsoperations/] for my latest solution to coalescing operations - I'm leaving this here in case anyone needs it. In "Networking wi…

I've been building iOS apps since iOS v3 and most of the apps that I've created have had to connect to APIs to populate their UI. The technologies used to connect to these APIs and consume their content has changed over the years but I keep coming back to the same pattern parsing the respons…