Tag: Actors

It is May already. In just a month WWDC23 will give us tons of things to watch, to read and to try. And today we'll go through something interesting too.

• Learn how to detect language of the text with How to detect the language of a text with the Natural Language framework in Swift by Natascha Fadeeva;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains how @MainActor works – MainActor usage in Swift explained to dispatch to the main thread;
  
  
• Developing Mixed-Source Swift Packages by Daniel Langh covers use of different languages in Swift Package Manager;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov explains multiple uses of overlay in SwiftUI – The power of overlays in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Tips and Tricks for Using ContainerRelativeShape in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is a great guide on little less known shape in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan explains how debug apps that use tabular data – Using TabularData to Dump Model Data;
  
  
• Sarun W. covers some aspects of Xcode Previews – Xcode Previews: What is it, and how to use it and Detecting if SwiftUI app is in Xcode Previews.

And that is it for today. Have a great weekend, have some time for self-education. And we'll be counting days til WWDC :) See you next week!

Together with iOS 15 Swift 5.5 is now released. Swift 5.5 contains a lot of changes for the developers, biggest being Structured Concurrency, actors, AsyncSequence and many others.

Starting today we're publishing digest of interesting articles to read over the weekend. This issue covers Swift, SwiftUI and other development topics on Apple platforms.

• One of the important reads which will define Swift development over the years – pitch on Distributed Actors;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng goes publishes Preventing Data Races Using Actors in Swift explaining usage of actors;
  
  
• Federico Zanetello publishes couple of interesting articles – Every SwiftUI Environment Value explained which covers environment values used in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Another Frederico's article is View masking in SwiftUI going from clipping to custom masks over views;
  
  
•  John Sundell publishes review on Codable synthesis for Swift enums. New Swift features allow easy JSON models over enums;
  
  
• Article from Sarun Wongpatcharapakorn goes through JSON data model simplification in How to set custom CodingKey for the convertFromSnakeCase decoding strategy article;
  
  
• Using Variadic Parameters in Swift article from Gabriel Theodoropoulos makes deep dive into Swift feature that is commonly forgotten;
  
  
• Long read on debugging years-old issue – Reverse engineering a 5 year old Xcode issue by Bruno Rocha.