Engineer of Impact | Leading with Ownership, Simplicity & Passion | Building Seamless Experiences in the Apple Ecosystem I'm Hardik M.
Trivedi, an iOS developer (Swift / Objective-C). I have 7+ years of experience in iOS development (Client & Product based apps). I have completed almost 35k+ lower, medium as well as higher-level projects. I master in MVVM (Model View ViewModel) Design Pattern with VCS (Bitbucket, GitHub). Platform:-
- iOS development using Swift, Objective-C
- iOS, AppleTv, AppleWatch, Today's Extention, iMessage
App
Design Feature:-
- Apple Standard HumanInterface Guideline wise design
- Auto-layout concept
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- Full Source code (commented if required)
- UX suggestions based on iPhone user
- VCS (Bitbucket, GitHub etc.) Please come on chat so we can discuss the requirement of your project and move forward smoothly.
15/07/2025
🌐 Handling API Failures Gracefully – Because Crashes Aren’t UX
APIs fail. It’s a fact.
What separates great iOS apps is how they respond when things go wrong.
Here’s my go-to strategy:
✅ Show user-friendly error messages — never raw errors
✅ Retry logic for flaky networks (with limits!)
✅ Use fallback UI or cached data where possible
✅ Group technical errors into clean, readable enums
✅ Log detailed errors for devs — not for users
💡 Bonus tip: Always test in airplane mode and simulate timeouts — real users do weird things!
The result? Better trust, better UX, and fewer 1⭐ reviews.
How do you handle API failures in your apps?
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11/07/2025
🧠 Swift Memory Management – ARC, Leaks & Why It Matters
Memory issues don’t always show up during development — but they always show up in production.
Here’s how I keep my iOS apps memory-safe:
✅ Understand ARC (Automatic Reference Counting)
✅ Use weak / unowned wisely to avoid retain cycles
✅ Watch out for closures capturing self
✅ Profile with Instruments > Leaks and Allocations
✅ Clean up observers and timers properly
Pro tip: Always think — “Who owns what?”
One strong where weak should be = memory leak.
One leak in a loop = app crash over time.
Memory management is invisible when done right — but painful when ignored.
How often do you profile your app’s memory?
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07/07/2025
🤝 Mentoring Junior iOS Developers – A Win for Everyone
After 10+ years in iOS development, one of the most rewarding parts of my journey has been mentoring new developers.
✅ It sharpens your own fundamentals
✅ Builds stronger, more confident teams
✅ Reduces onboarding time and technical debt
✅ Keeps knowledge flowing — not locked in silos
Good mentorship isn’t just code reviews — it’s about:
🔹 Sharing real project lessons
🔹 Encouraging questions
🔹 Explaining architecture decisions
🔹 Guiding through Swift best practices
We all started somewhere. Mentoring helps others grow — and keeps you evolving too.
Are you mentoring someone on your team? What’s been your biggest learning from that experience?
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04/07/2025
📺 tvOS Development – It’s a Different World on the Big Screen
Building apps for Apple TV isn’t just scaling up an iOS app — it’s rethinking the entire experience.
Here’s what I’ve learned working on tvOS:
✅ Focus is King – Use focus-based navigation, not touch
✅ Minimalist UI – Big screens amplify clutter
✅ Remote-First Thinking – Design every interaction for the Siri Remote
✅ Leverage TopShelf & App Previews – Extra visibility on the home screen
The biggest shift? Content consumption mindset — users sit back, relax, and expect smooth, immersive experiences.
If you’ve only built for iPhone, tvOS will stretch your UX skills — in a good way.
Are you exploring tvOS development yet?
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01/07/2025
👀 Code Reviews in iOS Teams – More Than Just Finding Bugs
After years in iOS development, I’ve realized — the best teams treat code reviews as a learning opportunity, not just a checklist.
✅ Share knowledge, not criticism
✅ Focus on readability, testability, and maintainability
✅ Ask “why?” before saying “change this”
✅ Celebrate good patterns, not just call out mistakes
A solid review culture builds:
🔸 Cleaner code
🔸 Stronger teams
🔸 Fewer bugs in production
Pro tip: Don’t wait for reviews to improve architecture — set clear standards early.
How does your team approach code reviews? Strict, casual, or somewhere in between?
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30/06/2025
⚡️ SwiftUI Performance Tips – Keeping Your UI Fast & Fluid
SwiftUI makes building interfaces easy — but keeping them performant takes intentional effort.
Here are some of my go-to performance tips:
✅ Use .drawingGroup() carefully — boosts rendering but avoid overusing
✅ Prefer .equatable() for views with stable identity
✅ Keep state minimal — large objects = re-render chaos
✅ Avoid deep view hierarchies for simple layouts
✅ Use Instruments to profile SwiftUI in action
💡 Smooth scrolling, responsive taps, fast animations — performance makes all the difference in user experience.
Remember: A beautiful app that lags… isn’t beautiful for long.
How are you optimizing SwiftUI in your apps?
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27/06/2025
🧩 SOLID Principles in iOS – Building Maintainable Apps That Last
Over the years, I’ve learned that clean architecture isn’t luck — it’s discipline. That’s where SOLID shines:
✅ S – Single Responsibility (every class does one thing well)
✅ O – Open/Closed (extend without modifying existing code)
✅ L – Liskov Substitution (replace base types safely)
✅ I – Interface Segregation (smaller, focused protocols)
✅ D – Dependency Inversion (high-level modules shouldn’t depend on low-level ones)
In real projects, I see SOLID in action when:
🔹 ViewModels stay focused
🔹 Coordinators manage navigation cleanly
🔹 Protocols define clear, testable contracts
🔹 Features scale without major refactors
Messy code grows fast, but clean code grows strong.
How do you apply SOLID in your Swift projects?
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26/06/2025
⚠️ Error Handling in iOS – Because Crashes Are Not an Option
Building reliable apps means expecting things to go wrong — and handling them gracefully.
In my iOS projects, I follow:
✅ do-catch for expected errors
✅ Result type for clear success/failure flows
✅ Custom error enums for better debugging
✅ User-friendly messages for known issues (network, auth, etc.)
Silent failures = Frustrated users
Good error handling = Trust in your app
Bonus tip: Always log unexpected errors — future you will thank you during production debugging.
How do you handle errors in your Swift projects? Are you using Result or still relying on callbacks?
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24/06/2025
⌚️ watchOS Development — It’s Not Just a Mini iPhone App
Building for Apple Watch comes with unique challenges — and opportunities to create real impact.
Here’s what I’ve learned developing watchOS apps:
✅ Design for glanceable interactions — users spend seconds, not minutes
✅ Optimize for performance — limited resources demand efficient code
✅ Take advantage of haptics and complications for better engagement
✅ Sync with iOS seamlessly, but let the Watch be useful on its own
Whether it’s fitness tracking, quick notifications, or health data — good watchOS apps respect the small screen, but think big for user experience.
Have you worked on watchOS yet? It’s a great way to sharpen your mobile skills.
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23/06/2025
🛠 Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift – Underrated, Yet Powerful
If there’s one Swift feature I lean on daily — it’s protocol-oriented programming.
✅ Decouples code for better testability
✅ Encourages reusable, flexible designs
✅ Helps avoid messy inheritance trees
In real-world projects, I use protocols to:
🔸 Mock dependencies for unit tests
🔸 Define contracts for Coordinators
🔸 Standardize reusable UI components
🔸 Abstract services like API or storage layers
Once you get comfortable thinking in protocols, your architecture feels lighter, more modular, and easier to maintain.
Are protocols a core part of your Swift codebase?
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20/06/2025
🧭 Coordinator Pattern in iOS – Because Navigation Deserves Structure Too
As apps grow, view controllers shouldn’t juggle business logic and navigation.
That’s where the Coordinator Pattern shines:
✅ Moves navigation logic out of view controllers
✅ Makes flows modular, testable, and reusable
✅ Great for onboarding, deep linking, and multi-step flows
I often combine it with MVVM or VIPER to keep responsibilities clean and logic decoupled.
Example?
From splash to dashboard, each flow has its own coordinator — and adding a new flow just means wiring one more module, not refactoring half the app.
How do you manage navigation in large-scale iOS apps?
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18/06/2025
🚀 App Launch Time in iOS – Don’t Make Users Wait
First impressions count — and in mobile, your app’s launch speed is the handshake.
Over the years, I’ve optimized launch performance using:
✅ Lightweight AppDelegate / SceneDelegate
✅ Lazy loading heavy modules
✅ Async loading of config & services
✅ Measuring cold vs warm launches with Instruments
📉 If your app takes more than 2 seconds to launch, you risk losing users before they even see the UI.
Pro tip: Move non-critical setup out of the launch path — users care more about speed than your internal bootstrapping logic.
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About my work related details check following:
Development Platform :-
iOS development using Objective-C
iOS development using Swift (latest version)
Apple Watch
Today's Extension
iMessage Application
Sticker-pack Application
Design Feature :-
Apple Standard HumanInterface Guideline wise design
Latest concept of storyboard interface
Auto-layout concept
Regular-Compact design concept
Development Feature :-
Best coding & folder structure
Database Structure (SQLite, Firebase, iCloud, Core Data etc.)
Social Integration (Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, LinkedIn etc.)
