All posts tagged with 'swift'
Switching to Swift: The iOS Migration
Apple released the SwiftUI framework at their Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2019. The new framework was a significant shift in iOS app development, promising faster development and more reactive user interfaces (UI). At the time, the FreeAgent iOS codebase was in much the same state as other iOS apps - using UIKit, an entirely different framework that had been in existence since 2008. Whilst UIKit was, and still is, a… Continue reading
Replatforming the iOS mobile app
It has been just over a year since we shipped our replatformed iOS app to great reviews and many happy customers. In this post I would like to take a look back at where we came from and how the FreeAgent mobile app is shaping up for the future. We started developing the mobile app way back in 2014. At the time the entire engineering team was ~20 people and… Continue reading