Tag: Combine

Small list for this weekend, so – more time to unwind. Let's go.

• Keith Harrison explores SwiftData fetch options – SwiftData Fetching An Existing Object;
  
  
• Learn how to utilize the Scan and Reduce operators in SwiftUI with Combine by Leonardo Maia Pugliese covers differences between scan and reduce in Combine;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva explains how observation works with new @Observable macro – How to manually subscribe to changes of SwiftUI's @Observable objects;
  
  
• Apple recently announced that developers will need to declare reasons to use some of the APIs – How to check if you use a required reason API by Marco Eidinger will help you to prepare for this;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee helps you to prepare to migrate to Swift 6 – Swift 6: Preparing your Xcode projects for the future;
  
  
• The Future is Now: Integrating AI in Software Development  by Beau Nouvelle explores capabilities that AI could bring to your apps;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his saga on StoreKit 2 – Mastering StoreKit 2. SubscriptionStoreView in SwiftUI;
  
  
• And another hot take on subscriptions by Charlie Chapman – How to use StoreKit views to build a subscription app paywall with SwiftUI;
  
  
• Peter Meinertzhagen talks about good onboarding experiences – Why your onboarding experience might be too short;
  
  
• Invisible Details of Interaction Design by Rauno Freiberg goes through big and small details of interactions in Apple platforms.

That is it for today. Have a great weekend and come back next Friday for another pack of great reads!

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!

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!

New iPhones are now arriving and are available in stores. So, you might have slightly less time reading on this weekend. Hopefully, you'll still have some time – we have great pack of articles for this weekend.

• Sarun W. comes up with good articles on common practices in SwiftUI – How to add button to navigation bar in SwiftUI, How to use UIViewController in SwiftUI and SwiftUI List: Basic usage;
  
  
• Editable navigation titles in SwiftUI on iOS 16 by Natalia Panferova goes into details on navigation bar customizations in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explains data structures and algorithms in Linked List Problem – Add Two Numbers in Swift and gets into new background task management in SwiftUI – New BackgroundTask in SwiftUI and How to Test It;
  
  
• Memory management in Combine by Natascha Fadeeva reminds on important aspects of memory management with reactive frameworks;
  
  
• Kevin Ma's Performance-Profiling Swift on Linux: Getting Started covers Swift performance aspects on Linux;
  
  
• The SwiftUI Layout Protocol – Part 2 by Javier is a continuation of Layout protocol exploration;
  
  
• Bruno Rocha does deep dive on existential types in Swift in What's the 'any' keyword? Understanding Type Erasure in Swift;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee covers aspects of WidgetKit in Variable WidgetBundle configuration based on conditions;
  
  
• What are Sendable and @Sendable closures in Swift? by Donny Wals covers structured concurrency aspects in modern Swift (and also small update on how to get more warnings on concurrency – Enabling Concurrency warnings in Xcode 14);
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng explains collection view techniques with SwiftUI cells – How to Refresh Cell’s Content When Using UIHostingConfiguration;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan explores new approach for dependency injection in SwiftUI – Dependency Injection with @State Variables.

And this is it for today. Grab your iPhone 14 Pro Max (in Deep Purple, presumably) and enjoy this new Dynamic Island.

It is time for another pack of great articles to read over the weekend.

• Mahdi Bahrami writes great article on practical use of Swift on Server – Advanced PostgreSQL with Vapor;
  
  
• SwiftUI Button Tutorial: Customization by Andy Pereira explores SwiftUI button customizations;
  
  
• Jesse Squires publishes article covering code sharing approaches – Sharing cross-platform code in SwiftUI apps;
  
  
• Handling Cell Interactions When Using UIHostingConfiguration in iOS 16 by Lee Kah Seng covers simple approaches on mixing UIKit and SwiftUI code in cell views;
  
  
• Keith Harrison's Unit Test Setup And Teardown explains XCTest's lifecycle methods;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva provides good overview on mixing async/await code with Combine in How to bridge async/await functions to Combine's Future type in Swift;
  
  
• And a great take by Sarun W. on SwiftUI gauge view – SwiftUI Gauge.

And that is it for this time. See you next week!

As you could see, there was a delay with good reads for Apple developers. Let's recap most of the good articles for these weeks. This would be long list of reads for the following week, not a weekend.

Let's dive in.

While we might be spending some time trying recent new betas, there still might be some time to read over the weekend.

• Swift Foundation Formatter Improvements by Michael Tsai covers several hints on new formatting APIs;
  
  
• Same topic in more details – Swift Foundation Formatter Improvements by Keith Harrison;
  
  
• Marin Todorov uncovers one new upcoming Swift feature in Yielding accessors in Swift;
  
  
• Automatically retrying an asynchronous Swift Task by John Sundell might help adoption of new Swift concurrency in real projects;
  
  
• Microapps architecture in Swift. Resources and localization. by Majid Jabrayilov gives more details on Swift Package Manager handling of resources;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese goes deep dive on unit conversion in Swift – Using native Swift to make Units Conversions;
  
  
• How to draw custom paths and shapes in SwiftUI by Sarun W. covers SwiftUI drawing capabilities;
  
  
• Combine: switchToLatest by Moritz Philip Recke gives another look on Combine;
  
  
• Mahdi Bahrami covers concurrency usage in server-side Swift – async/await in Server-Side Swift and Vapor;
  
  
• Rudrank Riyam starts tvOS development cycle with first three pieces – Exploring tvOS Development: Introduction, Exploring tvOS Development: CardButtonStyle and Exploring tvOS Development: Navigation.

Have a nice week!

Holiday season is approaching. Let's see what we've got for this weekend.

• Keith Harrison shares an article Editing Multiple Constraints covering one of the important aspects of UI development for UIKit apps;
  
  
• Good take by Donny Wals on Combine internals – What exactly is a Combine AnyCancellable?;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee dives into async/await and Combine usage – Creating an App Update Notifier using Combine and async/await;
  
  
• What role do Tasks play within Swift’s concurrency system? by John Sundell covers another aspect of new Swift concurrency;
  
  
• Interesting hint by Sarunw – How to decode enums ignoring case in Swift Codable;
  
  
• Monitoring HTTP Traffic with Instruments by Vijay Subrahmanian covers good debugging techniques for networking calls;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his overview of SwiftUI – Customizing view content shape in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Introduction to App Modularisation with Swift Package Manager: A tale to be told by Leonardo Maia Pugliese dives into approaches for modularization in modern apps.

And that would be it for this issue, have a nice weekend!