Tag: AppKit

Great weekend for another big pack of great articles to go through.

• Jamf Threat Labs share interesting article on making user believe that iPhone is on Airplane mode while it's not – Fake Airplane Mode: A mobile tampering technique to maintain connectivity;
  
  
• How NSHostingView determines its sizing by Brian Webster explorers sizing in SwiftUI and AppKit;
  
  
• Geor Kasapidi explains SwiftPM usage for data protection – Crafting a Swift Package Plugin for App Data Protection;
  
  
• Attempting to connect a tvOS app to an iOS app with DeviceDiscoveryUI by Ben Dodson explores cross-device communication options for Apple TV;
  
  
• Jon Reid has two articles on unit testing – iOS Unit Testing Champion: What Are My Roots, My Focus, My Passion? and Simplify Your iOS Test Writing: Introducing a Streamlined File Template;
  
  
• Continuing with Async XCTest Assertion Helpers by Christian Tietze on XCTest helpers;
  
  
• Dan Torres provides options on using tests to look for memory leaks – How to Automate Memory Leak Detection in Your Swift Code with XCTest;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explores adaptive views in SwiftUI – Adaptative Views That Fit Anywhere in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Keith Harrison goes through SwiftData tasks – SwiftData Background Tasks;
  
  
• Making your SwiftData models Codable by Donny Wals covers important aspect of SwiftData code generation;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva goes through Kotlin features – Introduction to Kotlin for Swift developers - variables, functions & control flow;
  
  
• Christian Tietze also shares an approach on making app extensible with Java Script – Making Your App Extensible with JavaScriptCore: Annotated Presentation with Full Transcript;
  
  
• Build performance analysis for speeding up Xcode builds by Antoine van der Lee goes through build performance optimizations;
  
  
• Great collection of SwiftUI tips and tricks – SwiftUI Cookbook by Kodeco team;
  
  
• iOS app setup for remote push notifications by Natalia Panferova gets you ready to support push notifications in your app;
  
  
• Swift URL absoluteString versus path by Jesse Squires reminds on URL and file paths in Apple platforms;
  
  
• Peter Tretyakov goes on Metal code optimization – Optimizing Metal: Stitch several Metal functions into a single shader using MTLFunctionStitchingGraph;
  
  
• Michael Tsai covers Core Data configuration – Turning Off Core Data Persistent History Tracking;
  
  
• And couple of guides by AppleInsider – Getting started with WidgetKit: Making your first macOS Widget and Understanding MetalKit: Getting started with Apple's graphics framework.

And one video on SwiftData:

That's a lot. Weekend will be packed.

Summer closer and closer here in California. Days become longer, so there is slightly more time to spend reading interesting articles.

• Michal Tynior shares his story of accommodating notch on MacBook – Notch Player;
  
  
• Cheatsheet for the JSON payload of an iOS push notification by Natascha Fadeeva provides all important details on push notification contents;
  
  
• Daniel Jalkut explains another interesting use of property wrappers in UIKit and AppKit – Magic Loading Property Wrappers;
  
  
• ImageRenderer in SwiftUI by Majid Jabrayilov guides you through view rendering process in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Simple, yet very effective trick by Marco Eidinger – Efficient Data Transfer in iOS Apps: Exploring HTTP Compression;
  
  
• Deeplink URL handling in SwiftUI by Antoine van der Lee explains SwiftUI's way of dealing with deeplinks;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese covers approach on dealing with application icon's badge in SwiftUI – How to Programmatically Add App Icon Badge in SwiftUI?;
  
  
• On Apple’s Guidance for StateObject Initialization by Jordan Morgan explores @StateObject property wrapper initialization details;
  
  
• And small recap of conditional compilation options in Swift 5.8 – Conditional compilation for Attributes in Swift 5.8.

This is it for today. Have a great weekend and come back next week for new pack of awesome reads!

Good reads for Apple developers is back! This would be a long weekend – we have some much to catch up with.

• Cascading Environment actions in SwiftUI by Magnus Jensen shows how to use Environment to pass actions to views;
  
  
• Interesting take on Java Script injection in Web Views by Lee Kah Seng – Injecting JavaScript Into Web View In iOS;
  
  
• How to customize automatic synthesizing Codable for enums with associated values by Sarun W. digs into customization points for Codable;
  
  
• Continuing Codable improvements with Encoding and decoding references to other types with Codable by Guilherme Rambo;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov digs into SwiftUI architecture approaches – Microapps architecture in Swift. SPM basics.;
  
  
• Unobtrusive runtime warnings for libraries by Point-Free covers interesting aspect of showing runtime warnings;
  
  
• Noah Martin covers performance implications of protocol checking via as? – The Surprising Cost of Protocol Conformances in Swift;
  
  
• A guide to NSButton styles by Kuba Suder is VERY detailed guide on macOS buttons;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva publishes Public-key cryptography with CryptoKit for iOS with basics on cryptography using CryptoKit;
  
  
• John Sundell covers great API design tips in Creating Combine-compatible versions of async/await-based APIs;
  
  
• Vision Tutorial for iOS: What’s New With Face Detection? by Tom Elliott digs into iOS computer vision framework.

Have a nice weekend!