Weekend good reads for Apple developers, issue #28, catching up

Long time no see. Let’s get back with good reads for the weekend before WWDC22. Monday will give us much more news for the next year, but today let’s take a look on couple of interesting articles.

• Some important thing regarding usage of enumerated() worth repeating – Avoiding Swift’s enumerated() by Michael Tsai;
  
  
• Transitions in SwiftUI by Chris Eidhof digs into transition animations in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Using DocC on GitHub Pages: Pros and Cons by Jesse Squires might help open source developers to adopt DocC for project documentation;
  
  
• Couple of great articles by Ole Begemann – A heterogeneous dictionary with strong types in Swift, AttributedString’s Codable format and what it has to do with Unicode and How @MainActor works;
  
  
• Daniel Jalkut covers interesting topic of menu bar integration in macOS – Designing macOS Menu Bar Extras;
  
  
• Wordle game implementation in two parts by Bill Morefield – How to Make a Game Like Wordle in SwiftUI: Part One and How to Make a Game Like Wordle in SwiftUI: Part Two;
  
  
• Server-side Swift gets more and more attention lately, Jari Koopman gives good introduction in Introduction to Metrics in Server-Side Swift;
  
  
• iOS Accessibility in SwiftUI: Create Accessible Charts using Audio Graphs by David Piper covers new accessibility features in iOS 15 (expect new articles soon for features planned for next release);
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov published several great articles on logging and performance analysis: Logging in Swift, Exporting data from Unified Logging System in Swift, Measuring app performance in Swift, Modeling errors in Swift and SwiftUI-related – Mastering TimelineView in SwiftUI, The power of accessibilityChildren view modifier in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Using private API is prohibited… but… Calling Private APIs in iOS by Jordan Morgan will cover this topic, if that is truly necessary;
  
  
• Also, SwiftUI hints by Jordan Morgan – Send Events from SwiftUI to UIKit and Vice Versa and Handle Keyboard Presses Using SwiftUI in macOS;
  
  
• Some testing hints by Natascha Fadeeva – Testing remote iOS push notifications in a simulator with simctl and Getting started with UI testing for SwiftUI.

That’s it for this weekend. Next week will be quite packed with things to read and watch!