Weekend good reads for Apple developers #2023/29

Heat waves are attacking California, so probably more time to be spent under AC or at the beach. Anyway, we still have good list of nice reads for developers.

• Marco Eidinger shares his experience with SwiftPM – Why is it so damn difficult to create a binary framework for your Swift Package;
  
  
• SwiftUI onChange Deprecation by Keith Harrison covers aspects of migration to iOS 17 SwiftUI state management;
  
  
• Jesse Squires shares his simple yet important tip on UserDefaults – Stop prefixing your UserDefaults keys;
  
  
• Good article on mixing SceneKit and SwiftUI by Mark Szymczyk – Scene Editor Development: Showing a SwiftUI View Based on a Selection;
  
  
• Point-free Pointers share their approach on testing asynchronous code – Announcing Concurrency Extras: Useful, testable Swift concurrency., Reliably testing async code in Swift;
  
  
• Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Selection. by Majid Jabrayilov covers interaction aspect in charts;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee covers logging in modern applications – OSLog and Unified logging as recommended by Apple;
  
  
• How to Create Callback-like Behavior Using AsyncStream in Swift by Lee Kah Seng is showing to add completion blocks to asynchronous tasks (like in good old days…);
  
  
• Another article by Jesse Squires on SwiftUI – How to customize NavigationLink accessory views in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan rebuilds Thread’s UI in SwiftUI – Thread’s iOS Interface in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Push Notifications Options in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese goes through use of notifications in SwiftUI apps.

And just one site to bookmark collection – Laws of UX is a collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces. by Jon Yablonski. Site brings a lot of user experience hints with examples. Definitely recommend to keep an eye on it.

And with this – let’s start this weekend! Come back next Friday for more good reads!