Joel Kingsley
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Migrating to NavigationStack in SwiftUI: A Case Study
SwiftUI’s navigation model underwent a major evolution with the introduction of NavigationStack in iOS 16. Migrating from the old NavigationView / NavigationLink APIs to the new NavigationStack-based approach often requires significant code restructuring — but brings with it powerful new paradigms for managing navigation state. With a recent navigation-related bug in my SwiftUI iOS app Read more
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A Key Difference in Baptist Doctrine: Eternal Security Explained
Although I grew up in a Christian home and was brought up in a Pentecostal church, I only fully understood the gospel when I was about 17 years old (in late 2014). After watching loads of YouTube videos by Wretched TV, Kent Hovind, William Lane Craig, Ravi Zacharias, and mainstream non-denominational Christian movies like God’s Read more
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Go Live System Architecture v1.0: Sound Doctrine Online
A month ago I had released my first personally developed iOS app on the App Store, called Sound Doctrine Online which you can find here: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/sound-doctrine-online/id6443919279. Sound Doctrine Online is a Media player app for iOS that streams Christian Baptist Preaching from around the world. To know more about Sound Doctrine Online you can also Read more
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Implementing Apple Sign-in in a SwiftUI app using the Firebase SDK
In this post, I will show you a clean way to implement “Sign in with Apple” in a SwiftUI app using the Firebase SDK. Read more
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How to use AVPlayerViewController in SwiftUI using UIViewRepresentable
Ever since it’s introduction in 2019, SwiftUI has been a hit amongst iOS/macOS/tvOS/watchOS developers since it has made UI creation so much easier than UIKit. Not only can you make advanced layouts more easily now with SwiftUI, but it allows you to use the same set of tools and APIs to create UIs for all… Read more
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Integrating Hasura GraphQL in your iOS/Mac app (Swift)
REST API is one of the most important application programming interfaces in the computing world since almost every application that uses the internet also uses it today. REST (Representational state transfer) was first introduced and defined in 2000; before that, we used to have SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). REST grew in popularity, became king, Read more
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Implementing Google Sign-In in a SwiftUI app using the Firebase SDK
We all know Firebase. It is the easiest way for someone to get started with the Cloud without spending much time or money. Every developer would have considered or used Firebase at least once in any of their projects. As part of Firebase Auth, Google Sign-In is the easiest login method to implement since it Read more
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Data Binding Techniques in MVVM (Swift, UIKit)
Swift is a powerful and intuitive programming language for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and iPad OS that Apple released to the public in 2014. Since then, Apple and the open-source community have continued contributing to it. At the moment, Swift is the official programming language for Apple devices replacing Objective-C. Through these years, many programmers Read more
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Benefits of Native Mobile Apps
For about 3 years I’ve been a big supporter of Web and Hybrid app development. One of the main reasons for that was that I was firstly a hybrid app developer for these 3 years myself. I say “was” since I recently switched teams, and now I am a full-time iOS developer (native app development). Read more
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German Series #4: Programmiersprachen
Programmiersprachen sind den gesprochenen Sprachen ähnlich. Beide haben Regeln und Syntaxen, die definieren, wie sie verwendet werden sollen. Die erste Programmiersprache, die ich gelernt habe, war C++. In der Programmierwelt wird es als objektorientierte Programmiersprache bezeichnet. Es gibt and Programmiersprachen wie Python und Javascript, die Skriptsprachen sind. Ich lerne jetzt Swift, die Programmiersprache die für Read more
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