Tag: Animation

Sunny and hot days are taking over Bay Area. I'm sure it would be harder to find some time to go through interesting articles, but let's try. We've got couple of really good reads today.

• Bruno Rocha provides great advise on saving during builds – Reducing iOS Build Times by using Interface Modules;
  
  
• Makwan Barzan reminds of jailbreak detection importance – The reason why you should keep maintaining Jailbreak detection in your iOS apps;
  
  
• And also provides a glance on new access modifier in Swift – Meet An Upcoming Swift Access Modifier: package;
  
  
• How to identify parts of speech and names in a text with Swift by Natascha Fadeeva is a great guide on Natural Language processing framework provided by Apple;
  
  
• Emanuele Agosta shares interesting article on designing interactions – Designing Micro-interactions to Create Seamless User Experiences (may require free registration);
  
  
• In our previous episode we already covered import and export in SwiftUI, here is another take by Keith Harrison – SwiftUI Importing And Exporting Files;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee provides great code examples for ranges in Swift – Ranges in Swift explained with code examples;
  
  
• Two important articles on how to use new Swift and iOS features with previous releases – Conditional Compilation for Apple’s Yearly Updates by Douglas Hill and API availability in Swift by Majid Jabrayilov;
  
  
• Let's finish with important topic of work-life balance by Krzysztof Zabłocki – Work-Life Balance for Sustainable Success.

And let's keep our work and life in balance – have some rest, read some interesting stuff and get back next week for new great topics!

It's already April... Apple announced WWDC23 and we have great reads for you this weekend.

• Natascha Fadeeva shares great guide on Create ML usage – Get started with Create ML to train a machine learning model in iOS;
  
  
• Great article by Chris Eidhof on transition animations in SwiftUI – When Matched Geometry Effect Doesn't Work;
  
  
• Network Extension Debugging on macOS by Antoine van der Lee gets us into networking specifics;
  
  
• Great hint by Jesse Squires on how to get better understanding of how new app works – Exploring a new iOS codebase;
  
  
• Drag and drop transferable data in SwiftUI byMajid Jabrayilov covers drag and drop implementation in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese returns to Combine framework – Merge, CombineLatest, and Zip: Comparing Operators of Combine for iOS;
  
  
• Very great hint by Jordan Morgan on debugging practices when working with JSON payloads – Debugging Codable;
  
  
• Security aspects of macOS are covered in macOS Security Bugs Exposed Safari History and Device Location to Unauthorized Apps by Guilherme Rambo.

And couple of takes on absolutely unrelated article which you can read on your Mac – Apple Has Included Bitcoin Whitepaper in Every Version of macOS Since 2018 (and possible explanation – Here’s why macOS has the Bitcoin whitepaper hidden in its files).

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Thank you and see you next week!

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!

Weekend is here, and so are good reads for Apple developers. Let's go!

• Keith Harrison shares great productivity tips on multi-cursor editing in Xcode – Xcode Multi-Cursor Editing;
  
  
• Article by Marco Eidinger explains some aspects of string case – Transforming the Case of Strings in Swift;
  
  
• Automate your CI/CD pipelines with fastlane – Quick guide on fastlane for iOS development by Natascha Fadeeva;
  
  
• Using User Defaults to store preferences in Swift by Antoine van der Lee goes into one of the persistence option in Swift;
  
  
• Okay, ChatGPT is everywhere, let's build an app for that – Creating a SwiftUI App to interact with the OpenAI ChatGPT API by Moritz Philip Recke;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng covers widget configuration – How to Create Configurable Widgets With Static Options?;
  
  
• And Krzysztof Zabłocki continues his series on widgets too – Widget Architecture - Part 3;
  
  
• Swift Regex Tutorial: Getting Started by Ehab Yosry Amer goes through modern approach to regular expressions in Swift;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on charts – Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Customizations.;
  
  
• DocC is getting more attention lately – How we migrated our SDK docs to DocC at RevenueCat by RevenueCat provides interesting insights on actual migration to it;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese covers animations in SwiftUI – The Art of Sequential Animations in SwiftUI: Tips, Tricks, and Examples;
  
  
• Styling in SwiftUI is covered in Composable Styles in SwiftUI by Kasper Lahti;
  
  
• One important hint by Christian Tietze if you're dealing with files in your apps – PSA: FileManager.trashItem (Maybe) Uses NSFileCoordinator Under the Hood Automatically, So You Shouldn't to Prevent Deadlocks;
  
  
• Reading keyboard modifiers on iPad in SwiftUI by Natalia Panferova helps to make your iPad app more keyboard-friendly.

And that is it for today. See you next week with another pack of great articles!

Wow! It's 50th episode here. Let's get something interesting for today's good reads.

• Let's start with good explanation on how Rosetta 2 translates x86 code into ARM – Why is Rosetta 2 fast? by Dougall J;
  
  
• Swift Concurrency – Things They Don’t Tell You by Wojciech Kulik provides great deep dive into proper concurrent code development;
  
  
• And another article on proper concurrency practices – How Does Swift Concurrency Prevents Thread Explosions? by Lee Kah Seng;
  
  
• Brett Ohland goes into details on data formatting – You can stop writing date format strings like “yyyy-MMM-dd”;
  
  
• Apple Maps are getting better now, learn how to add those to your web site – Using MapKit JS to Embed Apple Maps in Websites by Moritz Philip Recke;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese shares an article on making SwiftUI code modular with SwiftPM – Introduction to SwiftUI Modularisation with SPM;
  
  
• Core Data property mapping to Swift is suboptimal, learn how to better handle those with article by Natascha Fadeeva – How to handle non-optional Core Data properties in Swift;
  
  
• When .animation animates more (or less) than it’s supposed to by Ole Begemann covers interesting aspects of animation behavior in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan explains how to make your collection or table view better compatible with keyboard – Basic Keyboard Navigation for Collection & Tableview.;
  
  
• Widgets and other extensions need access to shared files – Share files between your iOS app, Widget and WatchKit extensions by Marco Eidinger covers exactly that;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee provides good guide on result builders in Swift – Result builders in Swift explained with code examples;
  
  
• Pin a view to the bottom of safe area in SwiftUI by Natalia Panferova solves one of simple things you might need in your app;
  
  
• Craig Hockenberry shares a hint on how to keep your storage free space under control – Managing Xcode Downloads.

Big list for this week. And, as always, more to come next time!