Tag: Concurrency

Fall is here, another nice weekend is here too. Let's go through great articles.

• Point-free pointers advertise their new tool to test Swift Macros – A new tool for testing macros in Swift;
  
  
• Apple added new lifecycle method to UIView, Keith Harrison covers it in UIKit View Lifecycle - viewIsAppearing;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on charts – Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Pie and Donut charts.;
  
  
• The Future of Accessing User Location in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is covering location tracking aspects in modern apps;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee goes through parameter packs in Swift – Value and Type parameter packs in Swift explained with examples;
  
  
• Bruno Rocha goes deep into implementation details of Swift structured concurrency – How async/await works internally in Swift;
  
  
• Craig Hockenberry explores design changes in watchOS – The Timer in watchOS 10.

And that is it. Come back next week for more great articles!

iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro are arriving to first customers. Hopefully, you've got the model you wanted and now you have some time to go through interesting reads.

• Michael Tsai got list of all interesting changes in Swift 5.9;
  
  
• How to intercept and edit a server response with Proxyman for iOS by Natascha Fadeeva is nice overview of network traffic debugging techniques;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese goes through keyboard support in iOS – Discovering All SwiftUI TextField Keyboard Types;
  
  
• With new iPhones being delivered iPhone 15 Screen Sizes by Keith Harrison will help you build pixel-perfect graphics for your apps;
  
  
• WeatherKit Tutorial: Getting Started by Saleh Albuga will guide you through Apple's framework for weather data access;
  
  
• David Smith explores interactive widgets in Widgetsmith 5: Interactive Widgets for iOS 17;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov covers actors in Thread safety in Swift with actors;
  
  
• App Intent driven development in Swift and SwiftUI by Antoine van der Lee goes through new framework triggering integrations with Siri, Shortcuts and other system features;
  
  
• Jon Reid covers interesting aspects of code refactoring in See the Magic of Iterative Refactoring: A Swift Case Study;
  
  
• DocC: Project documentation structure by Marin Todorov (who also worked on DocC) guides through documentation structure;
  
  
• Domenico De Luca explains adoption of Dynamic Type in Supporting Dynamic Type and Larger Text in your app to enhance Accessibility.

And this is it for today. Have some fun over the weekend (especially if you got your new iPhone) and get back next Friday for another pack of great reads!

Well, Wonderlust event brought us new iPhones and Apple Watches. We've made our first pre-orders and now we could enjoy the weekend with some great articles to read.

• Stefan Kieleithner explores custom text elements with UITextInteraction protocol – Adopting UITextInteraction;
  
  
• How to present a local html file in SwiftUI by Natascha Fadeeva solves problem of showing predefined styled content to users;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese covers SwiftUI view lifecycle – SwiftUI Guide: Triggering Actions Solely on First View Appearance;
  
  
• Keith Harrison helps you to prepare for Swift 6 with Strict Concurrency Checking in Swift Packages;
  
  
• Mark Szymczyk provides a guide to add help menu for your SwiftUI app – Adding a Help Menu to a SwiftUI App;
  
  
• If and switch expressions in Swift by Antoine van der Lee uncovers recent Swift syntax changes;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng guides us through adapting your widgets for Standby mode – Understanding Container Background for Widget in iOS 17;
  
  
• Working With UIViewRepresentable by Chris Eidhof helps improving UIKit and SwiftUI cooperation;
  
  
• Point-Free Pointers blog post helps with testing approaches – Inline Snapshot Testing;
  
  
• Christian Tietze reminds on UserDefaults default value registration – UserDefaults.register(defaults:) Is a Bit Like Nil-Coalescing;
  
  
• Generated Asset Catalog Symbols in Objective-C by Jordan Morgan goes through Objective-C support for Asset Catalogs;
  
  
• SwiftDataKit: Unleashing Advanced Core Data Features in SwiftData by 东坡肘子 goes through feature parity between Core Data and SwiftData.

And that is it for this weekend. Come back next week for more great articles!

Next week we'll see how new iPhone is better than previous one, so, we have weekend to read about development topics.

• Jordan Morgan talks data management in SwiftUI – Vending Non-Mutating Data in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Get started with StoreKit Testing in Xcode by Natascha Fadeeva explains testing approaches for in-app purchases;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explores new #Preview macro – Exploring the new Preview Macro with SwiftUI and UIKit;
  
  
• And, speaking of macros, Antoine van der Lee goes on #Predicate – Predicate Macro in Swift for filtering and searching;
  
  
• Haptic feedback gets its first-class API support in SwiftUI, Keith Harrison explains those in SwiftUI Sensory Feedback;
  
  
• Marco Eidinger explains how existing API applies for Optic ID in Vision Pro – Develop and test OpticID for Vision Pro;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov starts new topic – thread safety in Swift – Thread safety in Swift with locks;
  
  
• Symbolicating SwiftUI (and any Apple Framework) by Itay Brenner will go through debugging techniques for builds in App Store and TestFlight;
  
  
• Christian Tietze goes into details with arrays and other collections – The Missing Array.appending(contentsOf:);
  
  
• Michael Tsai shares personal experience debugging universal links – Debugging Universal Links;
  
  
• Brian T. Kelley has great series on Objective-C – Objective-C Internals;
  
  
• App Intents for Widgets by Alex Logan goes through new approach configuring widgets.

And that is it for today. See you after the event (and, after our next podcast episode).

Heat waves are attacking California, so probably more time to be spent under AC or at the beach. Anyway, we still have good list of nice reads for developers.

• Marco Eidinger shares his experience with SwiftPM – Why is it so damn difficult to create a binary framework for your Swift Package;
  
  
• SwiftUI onChange Deprecation by Keith Harrison covers aspects of migration to iOS 17 SwiftUI state management;
  
  
• Jesse Squires shares his simple yet important tip on UserDefaults – Stop prefixing your UserDefaults keys;
  
  
• Good article on mixing SceneKit and SwiftUI by Mark Szymczyk – Scene Editor Development: Showing a SwiftUI View Based on a Selection;
  
  
• Point-free Pointers share their approach on testing asynchronous code – Announcing Concurrency Extras: Useful, testable Swift concurrency., Reliably testing async code in Swift;
  
  
• Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Selection. by Majid Jabrayilov covers interaction aspect in charts;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee covers logging in modern applications – OSLog and Unified logging as recommended by Apple;
  
  
• How to Create Callback-like Behavior Using AsyncStream in Swift by Lee Kah Seng is showing to add completion blocks to asynchronous tasks (like in good old days...);
  
  
• Another article by Jesse Squires on SwiftUI – How to customize NavigationLink accessory views in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan rebuilds Thread's UI in SwiftUI – Thread’s iOS Interface in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Push Notifications Options in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese goes through use of notifications in SwiftUI apps.

And just one site to bookmark collection – Laws of UX is a collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces. by Jon Yablonski. Site brings a lot of user experience hints with examples. Definitely recommend to keep an eye on it.

And with this – let's start this weekend! Come back next Friday for more good reads!

We're almost there for WWDC23. Just a little bit over a week. And we've got good collection of articles for this long weekend.

• Amazing guide on push notifications by Natascha Fadeeva – Developer guide on push notifications for iOS;
  
  
• Natalia Panferova also explains to test remote push notifications with Simulator – Testing remote push notifications on iOS simulator in Xcode 14;
  
  
• And one more her article is about Layout protocol in SwiftUI – Using Layout protocol to align explicitly positioned views in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Back deploy Swift Function by Sarun W. explains how swift functions could be back deployed to previous iOS versions;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee shares his hints on how to get featured on App Store – 10 Tips to Get Your App Featured on the App Store;
  
  
• Handling WebP Images When Using PHPickerViewController by Lee Kah Seng might be useful for those who work with different image formats;
  
  
• Stefan Kieleithner provides a guide on making stylable UI components in UIKit – Customizable UI Components on iOS Using UIKit;
  
  
• Swift Concurrency Continuations: Getting Started by Alessandro Di Nepi gives great advises on mixing legacy and new concurrency models in Swift;
  
  
• Jacob Eiting gives an overview of effective communications – How we communicate at RevenueCat.

And while you're still here, we'd like to invite you to our pre-WWDC Apple Treats episode – join us live on May 30 at 9:00am PDT. See you there! :)

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!

One week closer to WWDC (we're even considering taking a break for good reads on WWDC week). But we still have more than a month for weekends filled with great articles.

• Let's start with nice recap on Swift 5.8 by Sarun W. – What's New in Swift 5.8;
  
  
• And also another one for those who has to use Rosetta during development – How to Open using Rosetta in Xcode 14.3;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva guides on QR code scanning with VisionKit – How to scan QR codes with VisionKit for iOS;
  
  
• Homage to Objective-C approach to Bool type – Converting A Swift String To A Bool by Keith Harrison;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov covers Canvas drawing in SwiftUI – Mastering Canvas in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Auto-updating macOS apps without App Store via Sparkle is explained in Sparkle by Sarah Reichelt;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng deals with sensitive information in widgets – How to Create Custom Redacted Effects on Widgets?;
  
  
• Unit testing async/await Swift code by Antoine van der Lee covers important aspects of unit testing in structured concurrency world;
  
  
• Coincidentally Donny Wals provides good review on Tasks in Swift – Understanding unstructured and detached tasks in Swift;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese covers one of the important aspects of maintainable code – Cyclomatic Complexity in Swift: Understanding How it Affect Your Code Quality;
  
  
• Okay, Copilot is now works in Xcode – Christian Tietze proves in in Copilot for Xcode Works Okay.

And finishing with great book available for free – Make Something Wonderful – Steve Jobs in his own words (also available in Apple Books). Book provides new perspective to Steve Jobs and is very inspirational.

See you next week!

It's middle of March, summer is closer and closer. We've got eleventh pack of great articles for this year.

• Developer guide on machine learning for iOS with Core ML by Natascha Fadeeva gives great start on how to add machine learning capabilities to your app;
  
  
• Interesting trick by Magnus Jensen – Blendmode trick: SwiftUI reverse mask;
  
  
• Keith Harrison continues his series of articles on various SwiftUI elements – Context Menus for Tables;
  
  
• Keep your CoreData store small by vacuuming by Marco Eidinger shows usually unseen side of keeping data in local database;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng talks about making widgets interactive – How to Handle Tap Gestures on Widgets?;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov shows how to use XCTest framework to do performance testing – Performance testing in Swift using the XCTest framework;
  
  
• SwiftUI Toolbar: Everything You Need to Know by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is a great guide on toolbars from SwiftUI perspective;
  
  
• Peter Meinertzhagen discusses importance of localization in the apps – Why localization has been so important for kids app, Pok Pok;
  
  
• Donny Wals goes through structured concurrency in Swift – The basics of structured concurrency in Swift explained.

And that is it for today. Have a great spring weekend!

This weekend brings another digest of interesting articles for Apple developers.

• Starting with great Swift cheatsheet – Swift Cookbook by team Kodeco;
  
  
• Chris Eidhof shares two articles: on SwiftUI environment – SwiftUI Environment Tips and use of colors and styles in SwiftUI – Semantic Colors and Styles;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese continues topic of SwiftUI components styling – A Beginner’s Guide to Styling Components in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Design notes from David Smith – DND 22: Calculating Offline Map Tiles and DND 23: Scaling UI Sizes with Dynamic Type;
  
  
• Applying Gestalt Principles in UI/UX App Design by Emanuele Agosta is a great read on UI/UX which will help all of us to improve our own "sense of beauty";
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee dives deep into Swift concurrency – Detached Tasks in Swift explained with code examples;
  
  
• Jailbreak and its detection is covered in iOS Jailbreak Detection in 2023 by Marco Eidinger;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva covers API version checks with How to use the @available attribute in Swift;
  
  
• Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Interactions. by Majid Jabrayilov guides developers on how to make charts interactive;
  
  
• iPad now has hover gestures, Natalia Panferova explains how to use those in Tracking hover location in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Keith Harrison covers iPad app toolbar customizations – iPad Customizable Toolbars.

And this is it for today. Have a great weekend and come back for the more interesting articles next week!