Weekend good reads for Apple developers #2023/12

Weekend is here, so is another list of great reads.

• Starting with good NSPredicate guide by Natascha Fadeeva – Get started with NSPredicate to filter NSFetchRequest in Core Data;
  
  
• Activities and attachments in the XCTest framework by Majid Jabrayilov covers good practices to make your tests more understandable by other developers;
  
  
• Marco Eidinger covers important topic of debugging of authentication flow – Debugging ASWebAuthenticationSession;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explores proper error handling approaches in Swift – The operation couldn’t be completed: solving errors in Swift;
  
  
• From Concept to Code: Strategies for Planning Animations in SwiftUI is truly nice guide by Leonardo Maia Pugliese on animations in SwiftUI;
  
  
• A little bit of pixel hunting from David Smith – Spot the Difference;
  
  
• SwiftUI layout technique is covered in Working with percentages in SwiftUI layout by Ole Begemann;
  
  
• Using foregroundColor(), foregroundStyle() or tint() to set text color in SwiftUI by Natalia Panferova explores several ways of setting element color in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Couple of hints by Jesse Squires – Improving multiplatform SwiftUI code and Xcode Tip: filter to show modified files only;
  
  
• Enabling the Inspection of Web Content in Apps by Patrick Angle provides invaluable help on debugging of web content;
  
  
• And nice guide on attributed strings in iOS 15 and up – AttributedString in iOS 15 by Sarun W.

And that is it for today. See you next week!