PFPeter Frieseinpeterfriese.hashnode.dev·Feb 2, 2022 · 9 min readCalling asynchronous Firebase APIs from SwiftMost of Firebase’s APIs are asynchronous. This might be confusing at first: you’re making a call, for example to fetch some data from Firestore, but you don’t get a result back. Why does this happen, what does “asynchronous API” mean, and how do you ...00
PFPeter Frieseinpeterfriese.hashnode.dev·Jan 17, 2022 · 11 min readNetworking with Combine and SwiftUINot keeping the UI up to date across the different parts of an app can result in an infuriatingly bad user experience, and I am sure we all have at least one or two apps in mind that are notorious for this kind of behaviour. Writing apps that keep t...00
PFPeter Frieseinpeterfriese.hashnode.dev·Feb 10, 2021 · 22 min readUsing async/await in SwiftUIA lot of the code we write has to deal with asynchronous behaviour. Fetching data from the disk, sending a request to a remote API, or downloading an image - all these operations take time, even on your super-fast, low-latency working-from-home netwo...00
PFPeter Frieseinpeterfriese.hashnode.dev·Nov 9, 2020 · 16 min readFirebase Authentication: Migrating User DataThis article is part of a series of articles that explores building a real-world application using SwiftUI, Firebase, and a couple of other technologies. Here is an overview of the series and what we're building: In part 1 of the series, we focussed...00
PFPeter Frieseinpeterfriese.hashnode.dev·Oct 19, 2020 · 6 min readFirebase and the new SwiftUI 2 Application Life CycleFor the longest time, iOS developers have used UIApplicationDelegate to handle application startup and other lifecycle events in their apps. At WWDC 2020, Apple made some significant changes to how apps participate in the application lifecycle. In t...00
