Short Bio

My name is Marin Todorov and I am an independent developer and publisher. I work exclusively on iOS projects since late 2009. At present I get busy with a healthy mix of contract work, writing, developing open source software, and speaking/workshops or in-house trainings for companies.

Find a showcase of my favorite projects below or head to LinkedIn for a more detailed overview of my professional experience.

Latest Projects

iOS Animations by Emails

My monthly newsletter about animations with Swift. I showcase cool animation techniques, fresh animation libraries on GitHub and interesting blog posts on animation. Get subscribed today :)

Books

iOS Games by Tutorials

Co - Author

The first book on developing games for iOS using Swift. It covers the SpriteKit 2D game framework from Apple.

iOS 7 by Tutorials

Co - Author

Tutorial book covering all newly introduced in iOS 7 APIs.

iOS 6 by Tutorials

Co - Author

Tutorial book covering all newly introduced in iOS 6 APIs.

iOS 5 by Tutorials

Co - Author

A blast from the past :) Tutorial book covering all newly introduced in iOS 5 APIs.

Open Source

Easy Animation (Swift)

Unleash the power of UIView.animateWithDuration:animations:

EasyAnimation extends what UIKit offers in terms of animations and makes your life much easier because you can do much more without learning some perky new syntax.

SwiftSpinner (Swift)

Beautiful vibrancy spinner view

SwiftSpinner shows a beautiful spinner view using the iOS animation effects for vibrancy and blur.

JSONModel (Obj-C)

Magical JSON modelling framework

Automates the hum-drum data mapping for your JSON model class and features extra validation on data types and response structure.

TaskQueue (Swift)

Manage asynchronous tasks like a boss

TaskQueue helps you manage parallel or serial asynchronous tasks with ease.

Speaking / Training

Event Description Link
try! Swift New York City, USA
 September 2016. RxSwift talk. link
SWMobile Bristol, UK
 July 2016. Building reactive apps with Realm. link
NSPresenter Madrid, Spain
 May 2016. Building reactive apps with Realm. link
App Builders Zürich
 Apr 2016. Non-technical ways to be a better developer link
MCE3 Warsaw
 Apr 2016. Building Swift Libraries for iOS link
Mobile Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
 Apr 2016. Building reactive apps with Realm. link
SwiftAveiro, Portugal
 Mar 2016. Non-technical ways to be a better developer link
mdevcon Amsterdam
 Mar 2016. Non-technical ways to be a better developer (slides) link
NSBarcelona, Spain
 Feb 2016. Developing an advanced Swift library on the iOS platform link
do {iOS} Amsterdam
 Nov 2015. Power up your animations! link
Mobilization 5 Lodz
 Oct 2015. What's in it for us after the indiepocalypse? link
Pragma Mark 2015 Florence
 Oct 2015. What’s in it for us after the Indiepocalypse is over? link
  Oct 2015. Animations workshop. link
GOTO Copenhagen 2015
 Oct 2015. Animations with Auto Layout (and Stack views). link
Cocoaheads Copenhagen
 Oct 2015. A tour of EasyAnimation. link
Mobiconf 2015 Krakow
 Oct 2015. Power up your animations! link
Cocoaheads Krakow
 Sep 2015. Animations with Auto Layout (and Stack views). link
NSSpain 2015 Logrono
 Sep 2015. Animations workshop. link
360iDev 2015 Denver
 Aug 2015. Animations workshop & talk. link
AltConf 2015 San Francisco
 Jun 2015. "Power up your animations!" Live code demo link
IronHack iOS Barcelona
 May/June 2015. Trainer for weeks #2 and #3 - covered MVC, view controllers, navigation, views, animations and more. link
mdevcon 2015 Amsterdam Mar 05-06, 2015. "iOS Animations with Auto Layout" Live code demo link
raywenderlich.com hangout Feb 2015. “iOS Animations with Swift” Presentation & Live code demo link
RWDevCon 2015
Washington DC		 Feb 06-07, 2015. “iOS Animations: Animating Auto Layout constraints” Workshop link
  Feb 06-07, 2015. “raywenderlich.com folklore” Talk link
PragmaMark 2014 Milan Oct 03-04, 2014. “Getting Real with Sprite Kit” Workshop link
Dutch Mobile Conference Amsterdam Jun 27-28, 2014. “Creating apps that run on your watch and talk to your cloud” Live code demo link
  Jun 27-28, 2014. “Overcome your fear of implementing offline mode to your apps” Talk link
CodeBits VII Lisbon Apr 10-12, 2014. “Overcome your fear of implementing offline mode to your apps” Talk link
Novabase Mobile Days Lisbon Mar 2014. Novabase Internal company event. Keynote & various workshops link
PragmaMark 2013, Milan Oct 26, 2013. “SpriteKit 101“ Live code demo link
iOSDevCon 2013 Berlin Jun 03-04, 2013. “Passbook is your running start to distributing tickets over the air” Talk link
UIKonf 2013 Berlin May 1, 2013. “JSONModel” Lightning talk link

Apps

I've worked on more than 15 apps - both for clients and own independently published projects.

I have a small studio called Underplot Apps. Me and my graphical artist released about 10 small apps in the first years of the app store. Some got traction and got us started on the App Store.

These days we rarely work on our own ideas, we mostly do contract work for clients if their project feels right.