iOS Learning Resources

A comprehensive collection of the best iOS articles and blogs.

Handpicked articles

App Architecture

• Krush iOS architecture - Teehan+Lax
• Viper - objc.io
• Clean architecture - 8th Light
• Aspect-Oriented Programming
• Clean Swift iOS Architecture

Design Patterns

• 8 Patterns to Help You Destroy Massive View Controller
• Protocol oriented architecture for networking stack

Swift

• Advanced & Practical Enum usage in Swift

GCD

• GCD: Summary, Syntax & Best Practices - Matt Nunogawa
• Using GCD and Blocks effectively - Mike Nachbaur
• Asynchronous Operations in iOS with Grand Central Dispatch - Jeffrey Sambells

Memory Management

• Memory Management with Objective C / Cocoa / iPhone - Memo Akten
• Memory Management - RyPress
• An In-depth Look At Manual Memory Management In Objective-C - Tom Dalling
• @autoreleasepool in ARC

Stack and Heap

• Friday Q&A 2010-01-15: Stack and Heap Objects in Objective-C

Blocks

• Understanding Objective-C Blocks - Intertech
• Blocks in Objective-C (Without Tears) - Tim Duckett
• Blocks - RyPress
• http://goshdarnblocksyntax.com/
• Objective-C Blocks Under the Hood

Core Data

• Introducing the Big Nerd Ranch Core Data Stack
• New in core data and iOS8 batch updating
• Exploring all the different core data concurrency configurations
• Maintaing a silky smooth UI with core data

Autolayout

• How to use updateConstraints

Debugging

• Symbolic breakpoints and watchpoints
• Exception breakpoints

How not to crash

• http://inessential.com/hownottocrash

Understanding UI and Touch Events

• Hit-Testing in iOS
• Understanding scrollviews

UIKit

• Understanding fonts and UIFont

Frameworks

• Creating and distributing embedded frameworks

Understanding the build process

• Build pipeline

Reactive programming

• What is reactive programming and why should I use it?
• Hello Reactive Swift World

Awesomeness beyond iOS

• Tell, don't ask
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets

Tutorial sites

• Ray Wenderlich
• Cocoa Dev Central
• Big Nerd Ranch
• Cocoa is my girlfriend
• AppCoda
• Tuts Plus iOS
• iOS-blog
• Cocoa with love
• objc
• Mike Ash
• NSHipster
• Natasha the robot
• ASCII WWDC
• A Better Way to Learn Swift
• Use Your Loaf
• Code with Chris
• Tutorials Point
• http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/objective-c/
• Little bites of cocoa
• James Quave
• iOS Dev Tips
• Think and Build
• http://www.figure.ink/
• That Thing in Swift
• Clean Swift
• http://krakendev.io/
• https://oleb.net/blog/
• Khanlou
• Andrew Bancroft
• https://www.calayer.com/

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