Bogdan Costea 3/12/25 Bogdan Costea 3/12/25

Future-Proofing .a Libraries: The Swift Package Approach

Think integrating a third-party library into your iOS project is a simple drag-and-drop? Think again.

Static libraries, manual header paths, and cryptic linker errors. As an iOS developer, these might give you some headaches, only to see Apple’s ecosystem evolve from .a files to modern Swift Package Manager integrations.

But how did we get here?

Bogdan Costea 3/15/21 Bogdan Costea 3/15/21

Implementing a network filter on an iOS device

With the release of iOS 9 in September 2015, Apple added a new functionality to the Network Extension framework. This feature enables an application to monitor and filter the entire network traffic from all the applications installed on the device.