Articles by Julian Hays

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Using Rx vs Delegates with CoreBluetooth

By: Julian Hays

Reactive (or “Rx”) style programming is quickly becoming a popular design pattern in mobile development. What is it, and how does it compare to the tried-and-true delegation pattern? Should you be using Rx on your next mobile project? Follow along with me, and we’ll walk through a comparison of Rx vs. Delegates in the context of Bluetooth on iOS. First, let’s review Delegation. If you’ve done some iOS development, you’re…

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Mobile Developer’s Advice for Implementing Device Firmware Updates

By: Julian Hays

When developing mobile apps for connected devices, handling device firmware updates (DFU) is a common task we need to tackle. Device firmware updating is the process of installing new programming onto an embedded device. By leveraging BLE…

engineers sitting discussing Apple's Swift Package Manager

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How to Use Apple’s Swift Package Manager

By: Julian Hays

A package manager, also sometimes referred to as a dependency manager, is a tool that facilitates installing, updating, and configuring other code packages to make them available within your software. Many iOS developers will already be very…

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How to Use Node.js to Speed Up BLE App Development

By: Julian Hays

Imagine you are a mobile software developer that’s been tasked with implementing support for a new BLE device. But there’s one catch: The device doesn't exist yet. Not a problem! You can use bleno, a Node.js module, to mock out a BLE…

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