While working on a brand new iOS app template for WordPress sites, we encountered the problem of writing an RSS Feed Parser in Swift. It turns out there's a straightforward approach to parsing a WordPress RSS Feed in Swift 3, so we thought to share this on our blog, hoping this will come in handy for a Swift developer working on a similar feature.

By introducing Auto Layout, Apple made a lot of progress in their attempt to help iOS developers in building their iOS app's user interfaces. The Interface Builder got a lot better, the Auto Layout was integrated into it, and more recently UIStackViews are gaining a lot of traction and popularity. Having many different approaches of laying out views with Auto Layout, makes it necessary to decide upfront, on a consistent pattern to be followed when building your iOS app.

Mobile is not the future anymore, it's the present. 65% of the people access the Internet at least as often via smartphone as computer. And this percentage is growing quickly year over year.