Weekend good reads for Apple developers, issue #31

Let’s spend first July weekend with some good reads.

• SwiftUI new addition – renderers are covered in SwiftUI Renderers and Their Tricks by javier;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov covers power of task modifier in The power of task view modifier in SwiftUI;
  
  
• How to change status bar color in SwiftUI by Sarun W. provides an overview of new and old view modifiers affecting status bar;
  
  
• Another take on Swift existential types Existential any in Swift explained with code examples by Antoine van der Lee;
  
  
• macOS system extension development is now much easier thanks to ExtensionKit, here is an example by Guilherme Rambo – Creating custom extension points for Mac apps with ExtensionKit;
  
  
• Introducing XCTUnimplemented by Point-Free Pointers intends to simplify unit testing for production apps;
  
  
• Easily access system folders in iOS 16 – Get URLs for system folders in iOS 16 by Natalia Panferova got you covered;
  
  
• Couple of good articles on formatting by Brett Ohland – FormatSyle Deep Dive, What’s new with FormatStyles in iOS 16, From Strings to Data using ParsableFormatStyle and Formatting your own types.

And that’s a wrap for today. See you next week with more interesting articles!