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2026 11

  1. Why You Should Care About Green Coding
  2. Vibe Coding vs. Engineering
  3. MartianCraft on WWDC26: What Caught Our Eye
  4. WWDC26 Recap: Siri Grows Up, Apple Intelligence Goes Everywhere, and Agents Move into Xcode
  5. What we are looking forward to from WWDC 26
  6. 22 Years and Counting: How Technology Keeps Driving Us Forward
  7. How Senior iOS Engineers Are Using AI in App Development
  8. Xcode 26.3: What are MCP and Agentic Development, and How Do You Get Started?
  9. What is Vibe Coding and Should You Do It?
  10. What Excites Us About 2026: A MartianCraft Perspective on the Future of iOS Development
  11. Inc. Honors MartianCraft as a 2025 Power Partner Award Winner

2025 13

  1. Secrets to a Successful App Launch: Marketing, Monetization, and Beyond
  2. Losing an iPhone: A Horror Story
  3. Big Agencies vs. Boutique Firms: What You’re Really Paying For in App Development
  4. Learning From My Mistakes
  5. MartianCraft on WWDC 2025 - What Caught Our Eye
  6. What We’re Still Talking About from WWDC 2025: Real Tools, Real Problems
  7. WWDC 2025 Recap: A Unified Platform, a New Era of Apple OSs, and Smarter Developer Tools
  8. Nailing Accessibility in Your iOS Apps: Going Beyond Compliance
  9. AI Can Write Code, It Can’t Understand People
  10. Getting Kids Interested in Coding
  11. How We Safeguard Against Remote Job Applicant Fraud
  12. Custom Mobile Solutions: Driving Enterprise Innovation
  13. Revisiting “The True Cost of Mobile Development” a Decade Later

2024 11

  1. MartianCraft Named a Top Veteran-Owned Software Company for 2024
  2. Mobile-First Design Principles
  3. Inc. Names MartianCraft as a 2024 Power Partner Award Winner
  4. Recapping Apple’s "It’s Glowtime” Event and What It Means for Developers
  5. On third-party code and security concerns for iOS
  6. The Art of App Store Optimization
  7. Celebrating LGBTQ Pioneers in Technology
  8. Why We Pay People to Interview
  9. Behind the Name: Why “MartianCraft” Embodies Our Commitment to a Better Future
  10. The Vision Pro Experience: A Dive into Apple's Spatial Computing
  11. MartianCraft & Apple Vision Pro: Pioneering the Future of AR Technology

2023 12

  1. Why Hire a Mobile App Development Agency for Your App? 11 Key Benefits
  2. Accessibility: App Design with Everyone in Mind
  3. The Evolution of VR and AR: Shaping a New Reality
  4. VISION POSSIBLE: A New Paradigm in Computing?
  5. WWDC ’23: What we’re talking about from the keynote
  6. Anticipation and Expectations: MartianCraft Staff Gear Up for WWDC ’23
  7. WWDC ’23: Using AR and VR to broaden your business
  8. Apple Nearby Interactions and the U1 Chip - Part 1
  9. Greening the Mobile World: How Mobile Software Development Can Contribute to Earth Day
  10. Thoughts On Ethics & AI
  11. Happy National Puppy Day
  12. 16 years of the iPhone and what it means for iOS development past and future

2022 21

  1. The Argument for Native Mobile Software Development
  2. How to be a model — and successful — remote team member
  3. Creating a Component & Using Binding in SwiftUI
  4. Top Blogs for Mobile Tech
  5. Rich Wardwells's Remote Work Setup
  6. Apple September 2022 Event: What’s new, what we liked, and what we’re still waiting for
  7. Tyler Sasek's Remote Work Setup
  8. Tyler Browning's Remote Work Setup
  9. Intro to SwiftUI Animation: Creating a Custom Menu
  10. WWDC '22: Sessions we're watching
  11. WWDC ‘22: What’s new and notable
  12. Getting Started with SwiftUI in 30 Minutes or Less
  13. Daniel Sharp’s Work from “Home” Setup
  14. SwiftLint Makes for Clean Code and Happy Clients
  15. Removing Mental Blocks
  16. Cory Bohon’s Work-from-Home Setup
  17. Software Development Lifecycle for a MartianCraft Project Manager
  18. Apple’s Spring Event Brings More Promising Silicon
  19. A Take on iOS Developer Interviews
  20. Richard Turton’s Work from Home Setup
  21. Xcode Through the Years

2021 10

  1. UIKit Developing with Previews
  2. Getting the Most Out of Virtual Conferences
  3. Giving Back
  4. WWDC 2021: What’s notable from the keynote and Platform State of the Union
  5. Apple App Tracking Transparency
  6. iOS 14.6 is a Game Changer for Test and Development Devices
  7. Building a Spreadsheet Using a Compositional Layout
  8. Migrating apps to Apple Silicon
  9. Using Link Presentation in iOS development to make visually-rich links
  10. Lessons Learned from Parler

2020 6

  1. 13 Years of iOS Development
  2. Reflections on Apple’s Intel to Apple Silicon Transition
  3. Work from Home… How am I supposed to do that?
  4. Developer Lingo Every iOS Project Manager Should Know
  5. Remote Crash Course
  6. Going Deep With Decodable

2019 3

  1. Getting Out There
  2. Developing iOS apps with Xcode on iPad
  3. Notes from the margins

2018 16

  1. Where the &$!#% is Localizable.strings?!?
  2. Data plays in the middle
  3. Automatic, for the machines
  4. Implementing a custom key strategy for Coding types
  5. Migrating from iOS to Mac — Part II: Build an macOS app in Swift
  6. A Shift In Tech: Machine Learning and AI
  7. Creating a Corporate Directory App with SAP's Cloud Platform SDK for iOS - Part 3
  8. Creating a Corporate Directory App with SAP's Cloud Platform SDK for iOS - Part 2
  9. Creating a Corporate Directory App with SAP's Cloud Platform SDK for iOS
  10. Technical Interview Protips
  11. Dealing with Dates
  12. Designing Better Notifications
  13. More keys, more problems
  14. Handling Storyboard Merge Conflicts
  15. Notification Handling on WatchKit
  16. How to prepare to work successfully with a software developer

2017 25

  1. The top reasons apps get rejected on the App Store
  2. Seven Deadly Signs That Your Software Project is in Hell
  3. Mistakes New Developers Make
  4. Introduction to HEIF Image File Format
  5. How to get started developing iOS apps
  6. Using SpriteKit to create custom watchOS loading animations
  7. The Importance of Routine
  8. Demystifying iOS Provisioning Part 2: Creating and assigning certificates and profiles
  9. Xcode 9's Manual Provisioning Changes
  10. The Future of Teaching With Swift Playgrounds
  11. Asset Catalog Changes in Xcode 9
  12. Exploration Day — Solutions for Blind and Visually Impaired
  13. Demystifying iOS Provisioning Part 1: Profiles, Certificates, and Xcode (oh my!)
  14. Going Without the Flow - Exploring Collection View Layouts
  15. Express Yourself Swift Style
  16. Exploration Day — Words Can't Explain
  17. Announcing Second Stage
  18. The Good, the Bad, and the Clients
  19. Staying Competitive with App Updates
  20. Analyzing Third Party Libraries
  21. The Geometry of Stars
  22. Nutrition for Remote Workers
  23. Creating Enterprise iOS App Download Pages
  24. MartianCraft Smart Mirror Project—Part 2: Software
  25. MartianCraft Smart Mirror Project—Part 1: Hardware

2016 13

  1. iOS Interview Preparation
  2. A Remote Litmus Test
  3. The Minimal Viable Product Conundrum
  4. What We Carry
  5. Tips for being a better developer
  6. Introducing the new TouchPad and NumPad
  7. Why porting an iOS design to Android will not work
  8. Migrating from iOS to Mac — Part I: App Anatomy
  9. What is the Apple Watch good for?
  10. Using the Apple TV Siri Remote with Xcode tvOS Simulator
  11. The Force Quit Fallacy
  12. Taking Focus Time As a Manager
  13. MartianCraft Announces Executive Promotions

2015 22

  1. Why Swift is the most satisfying language for using Core Data
  2. Working Far From Home
  3. Arriving at San Francisco
  4. Why San Francisco
  5. Pushing the Boundaries of Touch Control
  6. Living the Live Photos Dream
  7. The Developer's MacBook
  8. Working From Home
  9. An Unexpected Journey of Passion (Part 1)
  10. Moving from Objective-C to Swift with Core Data
  11. Shared Core Data
  12. Welcome to Re:quest
  13. Understanding the Android Support Library
  14. Managing Across Time
  15. Swimming Past the Standing Desk
  16. My Core Data Stack
  17. Briefs 1.3 Now Available
  18. Designing for the Apple Watch with Briefs
  19. The Dangers of Misinformation
  20. Disintegrating Baddies: Dissolve Effects in UE4
  21. Improving NSCalendar
  22. Modern Login Items

2014 14

  1. Professional App Pricing
  2. MartianCraft acquires Zarra Studios Software
  3. MartianCraft acquires Dragon Forged Software
  4. Using Vector Images in Xcode 6
  5. The New  World According to Developers
  6. An Apple Watch
  7. An Unreal Decision
  8. Using Blueprints in Unreal Engine 4
  9. Writing Better Bug Reports
  10. Inspecting Yosemite's Icons
  11. Establishing Priority
  12. The Cost of Mobile Development
  13. MartianCraft acquires BitBQ LLC
  14. MartianCraft Merges with Empirical Development

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