Feedback Reporter – Indie Spark

Choosing a crash reporting system for Cocoa

Are you writing a Cocoa application for Mac OS X? Then you’ll need a crash reporting back-end for your app. If you’re thinking of hosting your own crash reporting system, here are a few open-source libraries that you can consider.

How to structure SwiftUI navigation with NavigationSplitView and a router

You moved your SwiftUI app to a router pattern with a top-level NavigationPath, added a NavigationSplitView for iPad and Mac, and now pushing a view from the router replaces the entire content column instead of stacking inside the sidebar. You reach for .isDetailLink(false) — the old escape hatch — and find it does nothing once…

How to keep craft and signal in an AI-flooded iOS dev community

Two of the most-upvoted threads on r/iOSProgramming this month say the same thing in different words: “I miss the programming aspect of iOS programming” and “Why would anyone start a new app today?”. The complaint underneath both is not really about LLMs. It is about signal. The phrase “iOS developer” used to mean someone who…

How to plan for the iOS 27 SDK cliff: Liquid Glass, size classes, and Reality Composer Pro migrations

Apple’s annual SDK cycle keeps shipping silent breaking changes. The UIDesignRequiresCompatibility plist key is honored on Xcode 26 builds and ignored on Xcode 27 builds. iOS 27 collapses iPhone horizontal size classes to compact, breaking ten years of storyboard constraint variations with no runtime warning. Reality Composer Pro 3 imports projects from RCP 2 with…

How to survive Xcode 26 and 27 regressions: IB gutters, beta-OS crashes, AI pane, and orphaned simulators

Xcode 26.4 silently broke Interface Builder for Objective-C projects. Xcode 26 crashes with EXC_BAD_ACCESS the moment you launch onto an iOS 27 beta device. Xcode 27’s new Coding Assistant opens conversations in a floating window instead of next to your code. And nobody’s Mac can delete the 9–85 GB of orphaned simulator runtime sitting under…

How to launch an indie iOS app when discovery is broken and Apple can Sherlock you

There are roughly 2,000 new apps released on the App Store every day. Apple Ads charges $10–20 per paying user in competitive categories. And Apple just demoed on-device food recognition in iOS 27’s camera app, wiping out the differentiation of every calorie photo app in one keynote slide. The follow-up Reddit thread, “Why would anyone…

How to structure an ARKit/SceneKit game

A practical guide to separating game logic, scene management, and entities in an ARKit/SceneKit iOS game using GameplayKit's entity-component system.

How to defend a shipping app against iOS 26 and 27 beta regressions

Your HealthKit completion handler reports success = YES, but no permission was ever granted. UserDefaults.standard.integer(forKey:) crashes inside App.init(). A system extension that worked all last year now fails with errno 13 for half your customers. These are not edge cases — they are real regressions that shipped in iOS 26.5 and iOS 27 beta 1,…

How to load local HTML files in WKWebView on iOS and macOS

Since iOS 13, loading local HTML via WKWebView requires the purpose-built loadFileURL(_:allowingReadAccessTo:) API. This post covers the correct approach, how to handle inter-page navigation including the /nextPage sandbox trap, and when to use WKURLSchemeHandler for same-origin-sensitive apps.

Interview at Best Business Coach Podcast.

I had the incredible opportunity to be featured on the Best Business Coach Podcast with Daryl Urbanski. In this conversation, we delved into a journey of becoming a software engineer, launching digital products, and how one gets started on programming. It was an honor to share my perspective alongside such an esteemed company and dive…

The Blast Door Design Pattern: A Secure Software Architecture

Real-life blast doors keeps fire, explosion, and radiation at bay. Designing blast doors into your system can also make it more secure, more resilient, and serves as a protective barrier from attacks.

Native vs Web: Technologies Available to Native Apps but not Web Apps

Progressive web applications have access to many features previously available only to native applications. However, there are still platform capabilities available exclusively to native applications. This article summarizes what are those.

How to Define Your Own Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)

Uniform Type Identifiers (UTIs) are a standardized way for macOS and iOS applications to identify data types. UTIs are used to identify a wide range of data types, from images and audio files to text documents. UTIs are hierarchical, allowing applications to recognize and work with related data types. Developers can define their own UTIs in their applications to provide better integration with other applications in the ecosystem.

Pricing Source Code for Sale

Pricing source code for sale involves understanding your product, target audience, and market landscape. This article explores various factors to consider when pricing source code for sale and provides a comprehensive guide to assist you in the process.

How to Get Started with FMDB using Swift

My latest guest post for Waldo shows you how to use SQLite databases using Swift through Gus Muller’s FMDB library. Head to Waldo for the article: Getting Started with FMDB and Swift: A Guide.

SwiftUI vs. Storyboard: Which Is the Best?

Comparing SwiftUI with storyboards for iOS development - which one is better when.

How to Create an App ID

Check out my latest guest post at Waldo: How to Create an iOS App ID: 2 Quick and Easy Methods. You will learn: What an App ID is in Apple’s ecosystems. How to create App IDs. What is an App Store ID and how it relates to an App ID. How to find an App…

How to Configure Developer ID Signing in Xcode Bot

By default, Xcode Server signs binaries using a development certificate, not a distribution one. Unfortunately there is no built-in option to make it use a Developer ID certificate. What's the solution?

Introducing macOS Notarization Automation Book

Notarization is a fully automated process, unlike going through the App Store which involves manual human review. At least it's automated in Apple's side. However it could consume a non-negligible amount of brain bandwidth in your side. How about automating it?

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