iOS engineering, tutorials, open source work, and writing by Alok Choudhary.https://alokchoudhary.com/en-ushttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/ai-native-ios-features-roadmap-2026/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/ai-native-ios-features-roadmap-2026/A practical roadmap for AI-native iOS features in 2026: assistant workflows, trust UX, and operational reliability.Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/reading-notes-meditations-one-thing-and-focus/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/reading-notes-meditations-one-thing-and-focus/How my 2023 reading in stoicism, focus, and self-regulation improved engineering execution and leadership discipline.Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/reading-notes-21-lessons-and-random-walk/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/reading-notes-21-lessons-and-random-walk/How books from my 2023 reading list shaped my approach to AI features, iOS product execution, and engineering leadership.Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/reading-notes-sapiens-and-ai-product-thinking-2025/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/reading-notes-sapiens-and-ai-product-thinking-2025/How reading Sapiens in 2025 sharpened my approach to AI product design, user trust, and long-term engineering decisions.Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/evaluating-ai-features-in-mobile-apps/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/evaluating-ai-features-in-mobile-apps/A practical evaluation stack for mobile AI features, from offline rubrics to production telemetry and rollback rules.Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/building-an-ai-unit-inside-ios-team/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/building-an-ai-unit-inside-ios-team/How I would structure a practical AI unit inside a product engineering team: scope, roles, cadence, and quality gates.Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-6-concurrency-migration-notes/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-6-concurrency-migration-notes/What helped during Swift 6 concurrency readiness work: actor boundaries, Sendable cleanup, and safer async ownership.Sun, 24 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/on-device-vs-cloud-ai-mobile-product-decisions/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/on-device-vs-cloud-ai-mobile-product-decisions/A practical framework I use to decide when AI should run on-device, in the cloud, or in a hybrid architecture.Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/wwdc-2024-apple-intelligence-notes/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/wwdc-2024-apple-intelligence-notes/My practical takeaways from WWDC 2024 announcements around Apple Intelligence and what they imply for iOS product teams.Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/using-ai-assistants-for-swift-development/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/using-ai-assistants-for-swift-development/How I integrated AI coding assistants into Swift workflows while keeping architecture, tests, and review quality intact.Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/reading-notes-q1-2024-rethinking-risk-and-meaning/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/reading-notes-q1-2024-rethinking-risk-and-meaning/Notes from my Q1 2024 reading list and how these books influenced iOS product thinking, AI evaluation, and leadership decisions.Sun, 31 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/ios-reliability-playbook-2024/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/ios-reliability-playbook-2024/Practical reliability patterns I leaned on in 2024 to ship iOS features with fewer regressions and faster recovery.Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/late-2023-reading-sprint-and-what-it-changed/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/late-2023-reading-sprint-and-what-it-changed/Notes from my Nov-Dec 2023 reading sprint and how those books changed my approach to iOS reliability, AI product thinking, and team execution.Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/quiet-discovering-the-hidden-gem-of-introversion/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/quiet-discovering-the-hidden-gem-of-introversion/Reader's review for "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" In a world that often values extroversion and chatter, the mantra "Know thyself" should e...Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-everyday-ep-4/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-everyday-ep-4/How to use full signature init() for VStack, HStack, ZStackSun, 29 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-everyday-ep-3/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-everyday-ep-3/How to handle trailing closures properly and moreSat, 28 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-everyday-ep-2/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-everyday-ep-2/Ditch rawValue use callAsFunction on enumFri, 27 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-everyday-ep-1/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-everyday-ep-1/How to add AppDelegate in SwiftUI AppThu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-tips-declarations/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-tips-declarations/Use final on properties and methods when you know that a declaration does not need to be overridden. This allows the compiler to replace these dynamically dispatched calls with...Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-tips-nil-coalescing/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-tips-nil-coalescing/A post migrated from alokchoudhary.com.Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-tips-for-loops/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-tips-for-loops/Please find Swift playground at github.com Please find Swift playground at github.comSat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-tips-switch/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-tips-switch/Please find Swift playground at github.com This post shares from simple to advance the use of in swift. These can be enhanced and some time shorthand of more lines of code. I ho...Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-13-plumbing/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-13-plumbing/In Rewriting History, I talked about the internal representation of a Git repository. I may have misled you a bit. While the reflog, interactive rebasing, and resetting may be m...Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-tips-for-loops-2/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-tips-for-loops-2/This post shares from simple to advance the use of \ in swift. These can be enhanced and some time shorthand of more lines of code. I hope you would enjoy them and try to use in...Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-12-tips-tricks/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-12-tips-tricks/This module presents a broad survey of useful Git utilities. We’ll take a step back from the theoretical aspects of Git and focus on common tasks like preparing a project for re...Sat, 25 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-tips-how-to-use-enumerated-in-array/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-tips-how-to-use-enumerated-in-array/This is very useful if you are trying to manipulate in old school C, C++ way. Here's an example: That will print "Found Hulk at position 0", "Found Thor at position 1", and "Fou...Wed, 22 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-11-patch-workflows/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-11-patch-workflows/Thus far, all of the collaboration workflows we’ve seen rely heavily on branches. For example, in the last module, a contributor had to publish an entire branch for us to merge...Mon, 20 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-10-distributed-workflows/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-10-distributed-workflows/Now that we know how to share information via a centralized workflow, we can appreciate some of the drawbacks of this collaboration model. While it may be convenient, allowing e...Sat, 18 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-9-centralized-workflows/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-9-centralized-workflows/In the previous module, we shared information directly between two developers’ repositories: my git repo and marys repo. This works for very small teams developing simple progra...Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-8-remotes/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-8-remotes/Simply put, a remote repository is one that is not your own. It can be another Git repository that’s on your company’s network, the internet, or even your local filesystem, but...Sat, 11 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-7-rewriting-history/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-7-rewriting-history/The previous module on rebasing taught us how to move commits around and perform some basic edits while doing so, but now we’re going to really get our hands dirty. We’ll learn...Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-6-rebasing/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-6-rebasing/Let’s start this module by taking an in depth look at our history. The six commits asterisked below are part of the same train of thought. We even developed them in their own fe...Mon, 06 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-5-branches-part-2/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-5-branches-part-2/We’ve covered the mechanics behind Git branches, we can discuss the practical impact that they have on the software development process. Instead of introducing new commands, thi...Sun, 29 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-4-branches/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-4-branches/Branches are the final component of Git version control. This gives us four core elements to work with throughout the rest of this tutorial: The Working Directory The Staged Sna...Sat, 28 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-3-undoing-changes/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-3-undoing-changes/In the last module, we learned how to record versions of a project into a Git repository. The whole point of maintaining these “safe” copies is peace of mind: should our project...Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-2-the-basics/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git-chapter-2-the-basics/Now that you have a basic understanding of version control systems in general, we can start experimenting with Git. Using Git as a VCS is a lot like working with a normal softwa...Thu, 26 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/how-to-check-whether-a-module-is-available-using-canimport/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/how-to-check-whether-a-module-is-available-using-canimport/Writing multi platform code has its own challenges, but if you use the compiler test then one big challenge is solved for you: you can write one chunk code to run if a specific...Thu, 26 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/git/Introduction Git is a version control system (VCS) created for a single task: managing changes to your files. It lets you track every change a software project goes through, as...Sat, 21 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/enumerate-items-array/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/enumerate-items-array/There several ways to loop through an array in Swift, but using the enumerated() method is one of my favorites because it iterates over each of the items while also telling you...Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/simple-trick-put-end-empty-tableview-cells/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/simple-trick-put-end-empty-tableview-cells/Just like me, I am sure you all have been annoyed by those empty table view cell after your data is loaded.Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/make-use-of-try-keyword/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/make-use-of-try-keyword/Beside Swift being powerful, expressive language with a flexible, elegant syntax. There is one of the features I appreciate most is native support for error handling with try ke...Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/understanding-more-about-mvvm-swift-design-pattern/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/understanding-more-about-mvvm-swift-design-pattern/We all know about MVC and it’s shortcomings. I would love to explain MVVM that make developer’s life as well as testing quite easy Creating a View Model Before we take a look at...Sat, 28 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/setting-up-sia-on-synology-via-docker/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/setting-up-sia-on-synology-via-docker/Very first step is to getting docker installed to your Synology NAS. Open package manager and search for docker. Click install. https://mtlynch.io/sia via docker/ Get latest rel...Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/why-i-have-started-liking-storj-over-sia/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/why-i-have-started-liking-storj-over-sia/Few reasons I like Storj over Sia It has been less than a day that I am able to run StorjShare (aka Storj) and I have started liking it already. Here are the few reasons that'sa...Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/litecoin-to-ledger-nano-s/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/litecoin-to-ledger-nano-s/If you are already here you know what is ledger nano s. if you don’t, Click above image or visit https://www.ledgerwallet.com/ to see their products. LTC uses the same app as BT...Sun, 24 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-protocol-delegate-error/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-protocol-delegate-error/Just like anyone else you have encounter this error too. Writing a pure swift protocol and declaring the weak delegate you must have encountered error mentioned below. \[swift\]...Sat, 04 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-closure-syntax/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/swift-closure-syntax/We all have a bad memory when it comes to specific syntax of Closure. At least this post is going to help me, throwing out there if someone else can be benefited by it. Happy Sw...Sat, 27 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/time-machine-backup-awfully-slow/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/time-machine-backup-awfully-slow/Well if you find yourself in situation like where there is no existing Time Machine backup and you are taking it first time. Let me tell you it's going to be very slow as it is...Tue, 02 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/working-session-wearable-fitness-athos/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/working-session-wearable-fitness-athos/Athos Wearable Technology for Fitness As we all know how tech is moving into our life in form of wearables. we have watches and fitness trackers telling us steps taken, calories...Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/cocoapod-swift-making-pod-with-swift/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/cocoapod-swift-making-pod-with-swift/With this post I would be guiding you to make your own cocoapod with swift, that you can use in your project and help other developer save hours by using your code that being te...Mon, 13 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/creating-a-small-web-app-firelinks-with-newly-googlified-firebase-part-1/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/creating-a-small-web-app-firelinks-with-newly-googlified-firebase-part-1/So I am on to firebase. The time I thought to setup my journey towards firebase. This river thought to change its course. Its now googlified completly. For its journey from Fire...Thu, 09 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/development-tools-boost-dev-speed/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/development-tools-boost-dev-speed/As Xcode has visual debugger for interface many don't go for any other tools. In my experience I have tried two different tools one is totally awesome, other seemed to have pote...Tue, 24 May 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/xcode-plugins-that-can-be-super-handy/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/xcode-plugins-that-can-be-super-handy/First at the foremost I think I should talk about the plugin manager that can be built (Yes, Built) because if you are not building on the same Xcode that you are planning to us...Tue, 26 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/adify-your-ios-app-cause-iad-alone-is-not-enough-its-all-about-cost-of-effort/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/adify-your-ios-app-cause-iad-alone-is-not-enough-its-all-about-cost-of-effort/If you are a indie or pro developer like me and you have some apps on the app store. More I am reading about this Ad stuff more I am getting hooked into. I can clearly see how o...Tue, 12 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/cracking-the-wifi-networks-wepwep2wps/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/cracking-the-wifi-networks-wepwep2wps/Disclaimer : This info is shared for education purpose only. I dont take any responsibility if any person/org uses it intentionally harm any one. This less like a tutorial but m...Sun, 02 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/how-do-i-declare-a-block-in-objective-c/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/how-do-i-declare-a-block-in-objective-c/I thought to share here. so that along with me it would be helpful to others too. As a local variable : As a property : As a method parameter : As an argument to a method call :...Sun, 17 May 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/staruml-is-star-one-more-time/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/staruml-is-star-one-more-time/I have been looking around for tool for UML diagramming for very long time. I never found any good tool. StarUML on windows platform really raise my expectation. I used it to de...Sat, 29 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/mac-apps-that-can-really-increase-your-productivity/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/mac-apps-that-can-really-increase-your-productivity/Fluid App – Web applications like Gmail, Facebook, Campfire and Pandora are becoming more and more like desktop applications every day. Running each of these web apps in an indi...Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/cheat-sheet-of-command-from-hacking-and-securing-ios-applications/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/cheat-sheet-of-command-from-hacking-and-securing-ios-applications/Note : hello is binary filename is following example. Replace it with your binary filename. Basic disassembly \[shell\]$otool tV hello p \ main\[/shell\] Listing dynamic depende...Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/compiling-c-programs-for-arm-architectureios/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/compiling-c-programs-for-arm-architectureios/Lets start with C language compiler. xcrun is good command to find out the specific about the system and what sdk version is install, platform and other good stuff that you woul...Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/setting-up-your-mac-for-hacking-ios-apps/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/setting-up-your-mac-for-hacking-ios-apps/Content will be here soonFri, 10 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/installing-alcatraz-package-manager-in-xcode-for-plugins/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/installing-alcatraz-package-manager-in-xcode-for-plugins/In recent versions of Xcode. Apple is stingy about any plug in is being used by xcode. So I am updating this blog with two methods of installations. Method 1: (super easy) copy...Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/how-to-tag-a-release-on-command-line/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/how-to-tag-a-release-on-command-line/git remote (displays the name of your remote, for example YourRemote) git tag a 0.1.0 m 'tagging Version 0.1.0' (creates tag 0.1.0 from current branch) git push origin tags (pus...Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/step-to-publish-to-cocoapods/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/step-to-publish-to-cocoapods/edit podspec push branch to remote on terminal : add same tag as podspec git remote git tag a 0.1.1 m"tag 0.1.1 added" git push origin tags on terminal now push push pod to trun...Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://alokchoudhary.com/blog/convert-a-drawing-into-vector-artwork-in-adobe-illustrator/https://alokchoudhary.com/blog/convert-a-drawing-into-vector-artwork-in-adobe-illustrator/\[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXGY9Q7VmU8&w=420&h=315\] Might be useful one day.Sat, 02 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT