Three Ways to Get Core Data Multithreading Right

At #Pragma Conference 2015, Marcus Zarra, author of Pragmatic Bookshelf Core Data, described three approaches to using Core Data in a multithreaded environment and tried to clear up how Core Data should be used in 2015.

How Facebook Improved their iOS App Start Time

Facebook engineer Natansh Verma explained how they managed to reduce the launch time of the Facebook app for iOS and shave a few seconds off by streamlining their dependencies and using UDP priming.

Most Common Issues Caused by Mobile Fragmentation

Device fragmentation can be a serious hindrance to providing great mobile user experiences. A review of the most common issues faced by developers.

With Flutter, Google Aims Dart to Mobile App Cross-Development

Flutter is a new open-source framework built by Google that aims to enable cross-platform development using a single Dart codebase on iOS and Android. It aims to provide high performance and 60fps, jitter-free experiences on both platforms.

JetBrains CLion Adds Support for Swift on Linux and OS X

Thanks to Apple open sourcing Swift compiler and libraries earlier this month, JetBrains added support for Swift to its cross-platform IDE, CLion, running both on Linux and OS X.