Should you use Interface Builder and storyboards or write all your UI in code? This topic has been debated A LOT. There are good arguments on both sides, and every team’s and project’s needs are different. I’m not trying to convince you why one approach is better than the other, but rather share why we…
Over the past year, the Instabug BugSquad has grown rapidly. With a 200% increase in team size, we had to think hard about how to scale an engineering company without added bureaucracy and with improved productivity. In the end, this meant we had to refactor our code base. As with all complex engineering endeavors, things…
Ever since I started developing for iOS, I have been working exclusively on mobile apps. I didn’t have any real experience shipping an SDK, other than HMSegmentedControl, which doesn’t really count as an SDK. I recently became a Product Owner at Instabug, where I also lead the iOS team. We build an SDK for bug…
Having answered the question of why we don’t use Swift at Instabug many times over the past few months while doing interviews (P.S. We’re hiring), I decided to write a blog post. Since Swift’s introduction in 2014, it has matured a lot. We no longer read the stories of how unstable the compiler is, or…
“Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.” – Evelyn Waugh The standard Objective-C introduction usually mentions its Smalltalk heritage along with its strict C dependence. So how can a language running over the hallmark of procedural programming be dynamic? The Objective-C runtime. It’s the only…
Building mobile applications with web technologies greatly speeds up development, as well as the added benefit of shared code between platforms. Sometimes, however, you need capabilities that aren’t available in a web view, or maybe implementing will require too much work. That’s when you break away from your cross-platform heaven back to native development. Here…
While we were working on speeding the run time of our specs, it came to our attention that the Paperclip gem contributes a fair amount to the slowness of the specs, mainly because of its dependency on external software like ImageMagick’s convert and identify; and Unix’s file. Shelling-out may not be this slow, but when…