Tag: Chart

Weekend is already here. And it will be a long weekend in US, so buckle up and get ready for a long list of truly good reads.

• David Smith keeps his Design Notes Diary cycle – DND 13: Checking the Weather, DND 14: Building an Accessible Chart, DND 15: Ruthlessly Limiting Scope, and comes with another article which might be interesting for indie developers – The Tyranny of the Churn Equation;
  
  
• Great take on AsyncStream by Donny Wals – Understanding Swift Concurrency’s AsyncStream;
  
  
• We all use UserDefaults, Natascha Fadeeva shares good tips on improving its experience – How to store a Swift struct in UserDefaults;
  
  
• Point-Free Pointers share their new dependency management library – A new library to control dependencies and avoid letting them control you (and a review of it by Alejandro Martinez – On the new Point-Free swift-dependencies library);
  
  
• Renaming Toolbar Navigation Title by Keith Harrison helps implementing new UI element – renaming current document from navigation bar;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan shares his thoughts on role of small things in overall user experience – Just a Little Nicer;
  
  
• Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Basics. by Majid Jabrayilov explores Charts library in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese shares great tips of interoperability between UIKit and SwiftUI – 5 Techniques to Effortlessly Send Data from UIKit to SwiftUI;
  
  
• Text modifiers in SwiftUI by Natalia Panferova guides through usage of modifiers for Text SwiftUI element;
  
  
• Emanuele Agosta describes good approach on prototyping process – Creating App Prototypes from Low to High-Fidelity;
  
  
• Enhance your Map experience with annotations by Elina Semenko covers MapKit usage including important topic on clustering.

And finishing up with one video on Swift memory ownership model:

And that is a wrap. Have a great weekend, have some rest, read some good news and come back next Friday for another pack of good articles!

This week is a little bit shorter in US, so weekend good reads come a little earlier. Let's find some good reads for this long weekend.

• Let's start with a pitch to introduce Reflection API to Swift – [Pitch] Reflection by Alejandro Alonso;
  
  
• Natalia Panferova shows how to make graphs similar to Weather app – Area chart with a dimming layer up to the current point in time;
  
  
• And if you want a refresher on Swift Charts – Swift Charts Tutorial: Getting Started by Vidhur Voora will get you covered;
  
  
• Peter Tretyakov continues his set of articles on Metal – Shaders Explained: Dithering;
  
  
• Developing Apps with the HomeKit Accessory Simulator by Moritz Philip Recke explains on how to develop smart home applications for HomeKit ecosystem without actual smart devices present;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese guides us on how to work with Objective-C code in Swift – Swift and Objective-C Interoperability With @objc and @objcMembers;
  
  
• Point-Free Pointers share their approach to SwiftUI navigation – Better SwiftUI navigation APIs;
  
  
• Nested reusability in SwiftUI by Magnus Jensen covers interesting design pattern for SwiftUI applications;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng explains how to properly use concurrency in Swift – A Deep Dive Into the Swift Concurrency Bottleneck;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan shares his experience developing SwiftUI apps – My Real Challenge with SwiftUI;
  
  
• @dynamicCallable in Swift explained with code examples by Antoine van der Lee covers dynamic features in Swift and their potential uses;
  
  
• Two great articles by Marco Eidinger – A critical look at Swift Snippets (Swift 5.7) and Test Your Command-Line Tool In Xcode;
  
  
• If you're still using Combine Cheat sheet on Combine operators for iOS development by Natascha Fadeeva is good to have handy;
  
  
• Sometimes you need to remove onscreen keyboard, SwiftUI Dismissing The Keyboard by Keith Harrison explains exactly this case.

And to wrap up this issue, here is a great video for those who are interested in security – Using A Magic Wand To Break The IPhone's Last Security Barrier by Tihmstar | hardwear.io NL 2022.

Happy holidays and see you next week!

Hey there! This week we have many great reads for the developers, so – buckle up!

This week we'd like to pay our respects to Ray Wenderlich and his portal. Now it has new name – Kodeco. It is still great source of useful content for developers and we'll even share couple of articles today.

• But, we'll start with great article on secure memory management from Apple Security Engineering and Architecture team – Towards the next generation of XNU memory safety: kalloc_type;
  
  
• And another great read is Apple Developer article with great usages of Dynamic Island – Spotlight on: The Dynamic Island;
  
  
• Moritz Philip Recke explores video preparation for streaming – Converting video files for HLS streaming;
  
  
• Create a Card with an Image Outside its Bounds in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is a great walkthrough on SwiftUI with out-of-bounds drawing;
  
  
• Magnus Jensen shows good example of placing button for different device types – Better placements of bottom buttons in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Natalia Panferova shares two articles on different aspects of development – Fill bar marks with gradient in Swift Charts to make your bar charts nicer and good hint on app localization review – Check localizable strings with the accented pseudolanguage in Xcode;
  
  
• Great review of recent Bluetooth audio vulnerability in iOS by Guilherme Rambo – SiriSpy - iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri;
  
  
• Another great SwiftUI guide – Create Custom Cell with Placeholder UI Using UIHostingConfiguration by Lee Kah Seng;
  
  
• As promised – couple of great articles on Kodeco – State Restoration in SwiftUI by Tom Elliott will help make your app more magical for users, App Shortcuts: Getting Started by Andrej Vukelic guides on making app better integrated into iOS and Building a Recommendation App With Create ML in SwiftUI Saeed Taheri focused on machine learning practical usages;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan raises important question for those who use SwiftUI – Presenting Sheets: Item, or a Boolean Binding?;
  
  
• Refactoring Swift: Best Practices to succeed by Antoine van der Lee gives good tips on refactoring;
  
  
• Two articles from Marco Eidinger – How to handle popups and alerts in WKWebView on web content navigation cases in iOS apps and good unit conversion guide with new Swift Measurement API – Convert Celsius to Fahrenheit and back in Swift.

That's a lot for this week. Have time for rest and some time to read something interesting!

Jannik Arndt published project comparing multiple charting libraries for SwiftUI. Project displays charts using various third-party libraries and compares carnalities of those.

Conclusions are mentioned in readme document.

Comparison of Chart Libraries for SwiftUI: SwiftUI-Charts-Playground