Tag: Core Data

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!

Jordan Morgan has negotiated open-sourcing of his Spend Stack app. Source code of this app might be used for multiple features – CloudKit integration, animations and transitions.

There are several restrictions on reusing Spend Stack source code and naming, check the blog post for possible usages.

Code is mostly Objective-C, however, could be still relevant.

GitHub: Spend-Stack-Public

Reference: Spend Stack is Now Open Source

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!

While we're in the midst between iOS and iPadOS releases, we have couple of things to read during the release.

• Jordan Morgan provides overview of new concurrency model with completion handlers – Use Swift Concurrency with Completion Handlers;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese provides developer productivity tips in Save Time With User Breakpoints in Xcode;
  
  
• iOS developer guide on the main aspects of Core Data by Natascha Fadeeva provides great overview on Core Data;
  
  
• Sarun W. covers SwiftUI view positioning in SwiftUI zIndex: Everything you need to know and also talks about view cycle in viewDidLoad() in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Aspect Fit Layout Guide by Keith Harrison explores UIKit layout engine;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains typical concurrency issues in Deadlocks in Swift explained: detecting and solving;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov explains new Live Activities API in Displaying live activities in iOS 16;
  
  
• DocC Tutorial for Swift : Getting Started by Mina H. Gerges provides great overview of Apple's documentation tool.

And that is it. Have some rest, probably play with new shiny Apple Watch Ultra and come over next weekend for new articles.

Another summer weekend, another pack of interesting articles to go through.

• Reverse Engineering SwiftUI’s NavigationPath Codability by Point-Free Pointers studies implementation of Codable support in new SwiftUI navigation component;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov reviews LabeledContent view in Mastering LabeledContent in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Getting UIKit's UICalendarView from iOS 16 fully functioning in a SwiftUI app by Chris Wu covers usage of new UIKit view in SwiftUI;
  
  
• New way to control number of lines of SwiftUI Text in iOS 16 by Sarun W. covers new usages of .lineLimit modifier;
  
  
• Multiline TextField in SwiftUI by Nikita Ermolenko shows how to make multiline TextField;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee covers App Store Connect API usage in App Store Connect API SDK in Swift: Creating Developer Tools;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva shares two great articles on debugging – Quick guide on Proxyman for iOS development and Understanding LLDB print commands for iOS debugging with Xcode;
  
  
• Keith Harrison collected interesting points from WWDC22 Core Data Labs – WWDC22 Core Data Lab Notes;
  
  
• Superwall: Remote Paywall Configuration on iOS by Yusuf Tör covers monetization aspects of app development;
  
  
• Natalia Panferova shares an article on multi-window support in SwiftUI – Programmatically open a new window in SwiftUI on macOS.

And that's all we've got for this weekend!