Tag: Concurrency

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!

Weekend is coming with several great reads this time. Let's dive in!

• Point-Free Pointers finish their SwiftUI cycle – Modern SwiftUI: Parent-child communication, Modern SwiftUI: Identified arrays, Modern SwiftUI: State-driven navigation, Modern SwiftUI: Dependencies, Modern SwiftUI: Testing;
  
  
• Jaanus Kase covers aspects of iCloud encryption in CloudKit – What Advanced Data Protection for iCloud means for Tact and other apps that use CloudKit;
  
  
• David Smith is continuing his design series – DND 18: Creating Custom SF Symbols and DND 19: Designing for Smaller Dynamic Type Sizes;
  
  
• SwiftUI View's internals covered by Chris Eidhof – Variadic Views;
  
  
• Natalia Panferova covers ShareLink customizations in SwiftUI – Customize ShareLink appearance with view modifiers;
  
  
• Krzysztof Zabłocki continues his article on widget architecture – Widget Architecture - Part 2;
  
  
• A Less Evil NotificationCenter? by Jordan Morgan proposes an approach on better usage of NotificationCenter in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva provides good guide on keychain – Developer guide on keychain for iOS;
  
  
• How To Speed Up Swift By Ordering Conformances by Noah Martin explains how Swift protocol conformances impact app launch time;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on charts – Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Custom Marks.;
  
  
• Swift Package String Localization by Keith Harrison guides through details of providing localized resources in Swift packages;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explains how to deal with nested ObservableObject's in SwiftUI – The Nested Observables Problem in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Iterating over web socket messages with async / await in Swift by Donny Wals guides through structured concurrency usage with sockets;
  
  
• Two great articles by Marco Eidinger: minimizing device backup size – Prevent your app's files from being included in iCloud Backup and money-saving advice for GitHub Actions – Save money when using GitHub Actions for iOS CI/CD;
  
  
• New Scanning and Text Capabilities with VisionKit by Warren Burton covers on-device image recognition tools in VisionKit framework;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee advices on how to simplify testing of push notifications – Testing push notifications on the iOS simulator;
  
  
• And finishing with two articles by Douglas Hill – NSPredicate: an old API with new surprises and Using JavaScript in a Swift app.

This is a lot for a weekend, so choose wisely. :)

Tough week for IT engineers, but let's try to spend weekend improving our technical skills. There are many articles to go through today, so choose wisely.

• David Smith continues his design-related series: DND 16: Building Custom Controls and DND 17: Kind, Friendly Designs;
  
  
• You can make files of your app visible in system Files app – Make your app's files user-visible on the iPhone by Marco Eidinger covers exactly this topic;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains working with task groups in Swift – Task Groups in Swift explained with code examples;
  
  
• The Difference between Entity and Value Object, and How They Relate to Swift's Identifiable and Equatable Protocols by Christian Tietze explains value and reference types and their differences;
  
  
• Point-Free Pointers share their view on SwiftUI development – Modern SwiftUI;
  
  
• Couple of articles dedicated to animations start with Understanding basic animations in SwiftUI by Natascha Fadeeva;
  
  
• Then How to create Sound Wave Animation with TimelineView and Canvas in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese;
  
  
• Good tip on UIKit interoperability by Sarun W. – How to use SwiftUI as UIViewController in Storyboard;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on Charts in SwiftUI – Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Mark styling.;
  
  
• SwiftUI Toolbar Title Menus by Keith Harrison explains how to make navigation title interactive in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng guides on how to refresh widgets – How to Update or Refresh a Widget?;
  
  
• And the last piece for today – great reverse engineering article by Alin Panaitiu – Reverse engineering the MacBook clamshell mode.

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

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!

2023 is here! And it's time for next edition of good reads. There is a bunch of interesting articles this time.

• Let's start with article by Peter Friese on SwiftUI previews – Previewing Stateful SwiftUI Views;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee shares his approach on being better engineer – Engineering goals: How to become a more successful developer;
  
  
• If you plan to find new job – Preparing for a technical iOS job interview with questions and answers by Natascha Fadeeva might help you get prepared;
  
  
• How to Support Multiple Widgets When Using WidgetKit? by Lee Kah Seng continues topic of WidgetKit exploration;
  
  
• Working with keyboard in SwiftUI sometimes needs some tricks – How to disable custom keyboards in iOS SwiftUI-based applications by Marco Eidinger covers that;
  
  
• Magnus Jensen made a good guide on raw strings in Swift – Overview: Raw Strings;
  
  
• What’s New With PhotosPicker in iOS 16 by Felipe Laso-Marsetti guides through ways of accessing photos by your app;
  
  
• Great tutorial on long tap gestures by Leonardo Maia Pugliese – Mastering Long Press Gestures in SwiftUI: A Mini-Game Tutorial;
  
  
• Alejandro Martinez explains cooperative pool in Swift's structured concurrency model – Limit Swift Concurrency's cooperative pool;
  
  
• UIKit and SwiftUI interoperability is covered by Sarun W. – Using SwiftUI in UIKit as UIViewController.

And finishing up with conference talk – "TBC" by Marcin Krzyzanowski.

And this is how we start New Year. Come back next week for more great reads!

It's Christmas weekend, and to give you time to celebrate, we've made slightly smaller list of articles. But those are really good.

• Peter Tretyakov is back with Code Signing Hell with XCFramework (by the way, he hinted that ChatGPT actually helped him to improve readability of the article);
  
  
• David Smith continues his design notes diary – DND 11: Better Dynamic Type Designs and DND 12: Sparkle Magic;
  
  
• How to Create an iOS Lock Screen Widget? by Lee Kah Seng explores use of WidgetKit for Lock Screen widgets;
  
  
• Moritz Philip Recke provides a guide on DocC usage on GitHub Pages – Configuring the Hosting Base Path in Xcode to Publish DocC Documentation on GitHub Pages;
  
  
• How to perform a lightweight migration in Core Data by Natascha Fadeeva guides through simple but important process working with Core Data;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explains new concurrency usage in SwiftUI – Efficiently Managing Multiple Async Tasks in SwiftUI.

And that is it for today. Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

We're almost at the end of the year, so each weekend will have more and more interesting topics to go through.

• Another design notes by David Smith – Design Notes Diary #5 and Design Notes Diary #6;
  
  
• Moritz Philip Recke uses ChatGPT to make app prototype – Prototyping SwiftUI interfaces with OpenAI's ChatGPT;
  
  
• And another article by Moritz Philip Recke on how to test CarPlay features – Testing Apps with an iPhone and the CarPlay Simulator;
  
  
• Dave DeLong has an interesting story on bugs in standard library – Adventures in Advent of Code;
  
  
• Guide to Unit Testing with Async/Await in Swift by Leonardo Maia Pugliese covers unit testing with structured concurrency;
  
  
• Josh Berlin provides guide on Xcode CI/CD – Getting Started with Xcode Cloud;
  
  
• Introducing the EnvironmentBacked property wrapper by Magnus Jensen provides good simple design pattern implementation for SwiftUI;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on SwiftUI layout implementation – Building custom layout in SwiftUI. Spacing.;
  
  
• How to bridge completions handlers to Swift's async/await by Natascha Fadeeva provides a guide on how to merge two worlds or legacy and structured concurrency in Swift;
  
  
• Data formatters are really great in Swift, How to use FormatStyle to restrict TextField input in SwiftUI by Antoine van der Lee explains how to use those with SwiftUI;
  
  
• Getting Started With WidgetKit by Lee Kah Seng is great guide on how to start making widgets for your apps;
  
  
• Sarun W. recaps role aspect of buttons in SwiftUI – What is Button Role in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Marin Todorov shares two articles on his findings during dataTile development – Custom SwiftUI view modifier for paid app features and Automation tooling using MarkCodable for reports.

And that is it for this week, see you next Friday!

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!

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!