Adam Borek

Thinking in RxSwift

Thinking in RxSwift

It has been a long time since my last post. I wanted to prepare an article which will cover the theory which stands behind Observable and show the usage on real, not dummy example. It has turned out it was not trivial task as I thought 😉 The article is split

RxSwift - Start using it today! The practical introduction

RxSwift - Start using it today! The practical introduction

My journey with FRP has started with ReactiveCocoa v2.4 which was the most popular library implementing concepts of Functional Reactive Programming in Objective-C. At the beginning, I had a shallow understanding of ReactiveCocoa so I limited the usage only for listening for UI events (like button taps) or handling

The Single Responsibility Principle in Swift

The Single Responsibility Principle in Swift

Sometimes I have a feeling that not everybody cares about where to put a piece of code which we’re writing. Sometimes, the “does it work?” question is sufficient requirement to mark a task as done. Especially, when it comes to adding new code into existing project. Recently, we had

Rules for better Swift code

Rules for better Swift code

For nearly last 6 months I’ve been writing code only in Swift. I can say it was a “love at first use”. Now I cannot imagine that I can start a new project with Objective-C. During these 6 months, I’ve read a lot of stuff about good practices

Keep your hats on! - Typhoon - The Dependency Injection Framework

Keep your hats on! - Typhoon - The Dependency Injection Framework

What is the Dependency Injection (DI)? When I heard about DI for the first time it sounded very difficult to understand. Luckily, I was wrong ;). Dependency injection is a simple principle. To summarize it in on sentence „The object should rely on it’s dependencies, but it shouldn’t instantiate

I can be whatever you want - Mocks and stubs

I can be whatever you want - Mocks and stubs

Probably when you read some articles about unit tests you can find a sentence like „Keep the unit small” or „For such reason there is a unit word before in „unit test” phrase ” But… what does it mean? My UIViewController has 1000 lines of code! Is it possible to create

Choose your unit test tool! - Specta

Choose your unit test tool! - Specta

What I love in my job is a community of people with common interests. Our society really likes to share with knowledge which we have learned. That is awesome! Thanks to it we can constantly increase a quality of our code and don’t repeat unnecessary mistakes. That brings us