Best Practices

❌ Ineffective: My code isn't working. Can you help?

✅ Effective: I'm getting a 'Thread 1: Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil' when trying to unwrap an optional UIImage in my custom UICollectionViewCell. Here's my cellForItemAt implementation...

✅ Feature Request: I need to implement a custom tab bar in SwiftUI that shows a circular progress indicator around the selected tab icon. The progress should be animated. Here's my current TabView implementation...

❌ Limited: How do I update this delegate method?

✅ Complete: I need to update this UITableViewDelegate method to handle custom swipe actions. Here's my current implementation (@Files TableViewController.swift) and the custom SwipeActionView (@Files Views/SwipeActionView.swift) I want to integrate.

✅ Framework: I'm building a custom networking layer (@Codebase Networking/*). Can you help me implement proper retry logic with exponential backoff?

❌ Vague: How do I use Core Data?

✅ Specific: I need help implementing NSFetchedResultsController (@Apple Docs NSFetchedResultsController) with multiple sections based on dates. Here's my current Core Data model (@Files Model.xcdatamodeld)...

✅ API Reference: Can you explain how to use URLSession's (@Apple Docs URLSession) background download tasks with proper delegate handling (@Apple Docs URLSessionDownloadDelegate)?

❌ Ambiguous: How do I create a button?

✅ SwiftUI: I'm using SwiftUI (iOS 16+) and need to create a custom button with a gradient background, dynamic shadow, and haptic feedback. Here's my current Button implementation...

✅ UIKit Integration: I need to embed this SwiftUI view (@Files CustomView.swift) into my existing UIKit navigation stack. Here's my current UIHostingController setup...

❌ Unclear: The app crashes sometimes.

✅ Detailed: The app crashes when switching between tabs while a network request is in progress. Here's the crash log and relevant networking code (@Files NetworkManager.swift). The issue started after implementing async/await...

✅ Refactoring: I want to refactor this massive view controller (@Files ProfileViewController.swift) into smaller components using MVVM. Here's my planned architecture diagram...

❌ Too Much: Sharing entire project files for a simple UI fix

✅ Just Right: Continuing from our previous chat about the networking layer (see chat history), I need to add request caching. Here's the specific RequestCaching protocol I want to implement...

✅ Breaking Down: `I need to migrate this UIKit project to SwiftUI. Let’s break it down:

1. First, let’s handle the navigation structure
2. Then, convert each view controller individually
3. Finally, implement the data flow with @StateObject and ObservableObject`

✅ Automatic Fix: Click "Build & Fix Errors" when you see multiple red errors in Xcode. Alex will handle missing imports, protocol conformance, and type issues automatically one by one until the build succeeds.

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