Weekend good reads for Apple developers #2024/7

Yet another great installment of good reads for Apple developers. With quite a lot of really interesting articles.

• Anton Begehr shares hints on how to test schema migrations in SwiftData – Testing SwiftData Migrations;
  
  
• Getting started with Apollo iOS for GraphQL with Swift by Natascha Fadeeva goes through basics of GraphQL in iOS apps;
  
  
• Keith Harrison covers use of system unified logging support in Xcode – Xcode Console and Unified Logging;
  
  
• Wade Tregaskis explores controversial design choice in macOS – Proactive Peek & Reveal on Edge Hover and covers various ways of hiding views in SwiftUI – Hiding SwiftUI views;
  
  
• Discovering Swift Algorithms package by Majid Jabrayilov is dedicated to Swift package for collection algorithms;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee provides great guide on making your images respecting Dynamic Type scaling – How to use @ScaledMetric in SwiftUI for Dynamic Type support;
  
  
• Giovanni Monaco goes through window management in visionOS – Configuring default window and volume size in visionOS;
  
  
• Understanding Once and For All SwiftUI Alignment Guides by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is a comprehensive review of layout techniques in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Christian Tietze shares his impressions on web site created by Chris Eidhof and the team –  SwiftUI Field Guide;
  
  
• How to determine where tasks and async functions run in Swift? by Donny Wals helps to navigate developers on actual threads running async functions;
  
  
• Chip Loder guides through String Catalogs in Xcode – How to use Xcode String catalogs to localize your app;
  
  
• How to use Media Source Extensions with AirPlay by WebKit team provides hints on how to implement efficient media streaming on the web;
  
  
• Michael Tsai shares several interesting tips and tricks in Swift – Swift Tricks;
  
  
• If you play with Quartz in macOS, you might want to check your settings as per Wade Tregaskis – Secret Sonoma design lead: Barbie;
  
  
• Garrett Barker creates quick overview on new Observation framework – Understanding Observation in Swift: Simplifying SwiftUI Development.

And that’s it for this week. See you next Friday with another great pack of interesting articles!