Tag: Core Data

This week is quite short in US. So, good reads come early this time.

• How to migrate to a new schema with SwiftData in iOS by Natascha Fadeeva is a good start for those who want to adopt new persistence framework;
  
  
• Small development perspective on Assistive Access by Jordan Morgan – Checking Out Assistive Access;
  
  
• Optimizing paywall placement: The key to unlocking more app subscribers by Peter Meinertzhagen goes through monetization approach for mobile apps;
  
  
• Keith Harrison explores SwiftUI Split View implementations – SwiftUI SplitView Compact Column Control;
  
  
• Mark Szymczyk covers Core Data code generation issues and how to deal with some of those – Dealing with Core Data Duplicate Class Errors;
  
  
• Scoped animations in SwiftUI by Majid Jabrayilov covers animation techniques in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee goes through testing techniques for modern Swift concurrency – Unit testing async/await Swift code;
  
  
• How to Generate a Useful Xcode Gitignore to Avoid Noise in Git by Jon Reid will help to make better project handling with git;
  
  
• Using Observation framework outside of SwiftUI by Natalia Panferova explains use of new observation macros;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese goes through algorithms in Conquering the Climbing Stairs Challenge with Swift: A Dynamic Programming Approach.

And with this, we're wrapping up. See you next week for another pack of good 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!

Great weekend for another big pack of great articles to go through.

• Jamf Threat Labs share interesting article on making user believe that iPhone is on Airplane mode while it's not – Fake Airplane Mode: A mobile tampering technique to maintain connectivity;
  
  
• How NSHostingView determines its sizing by Brian Webster explorers sizing in SwiftUI and AppKit;
  
  
• Geor Kasapidi explains SwiftPM usage for data protection – Crafting a Swift Package Plugin for App Data Protection;
  
  
• Attempting to connect a tvOS app to an iOS app with DeviceDiscoveryUI by Ben Dodson explores cross-device communication options for Apple TV;
  
  
• Jon Reid has two articles on unit testing – iOS Unit Testing Champion: What Are My Roots, My Focus, My Passion? and Simplify Your iOS Test Writing: Introducing a Streamlined File Template;
  
  
• Continuing with Async XCTest Assertion Helpers by Christian Tietze on XCTest helpers;
  
  
• Dan Torres provides options on using tests to look for memory leaks – How to Automate Memory Leak Detection in Your Swift Code with XCTest;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explores adaptive views in SwiftUI – Adaptative Views That Fit Anywhere in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Keith Harrison goes through SwiftData tasks – SwiftData Background Tasks;
  
  
• Making your SwiftData models Codable by Donny Wals covers important aspect of SwiftData code generation;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva goes through Kotlin features – Introduction to Kotlin for Swift developers - variables, functions & control flow;
  
  
• Christian Tietze also shares an approach on making app extensible with Java Script – Making Your App Extensible with JavaScriptCore: Annotated Presentation with Full Transcript;
  
  
• Build performance analysis for speeding up Xcode builds by Antoine van der Lee goes through build performance optimizations;
  
  
• Great collection of SwiftUI tips and tricks – SwiftUI Cookbook by Kodeco team;
  
  
• iOS app setup for remote push notifications by Natalia Panferova gets you ready to support push notifications in your app;
  
  
• Swift URL absoluteString versus path by Jesse Squires reminds on URL and file paths in Apple platforms;
  
  
• Peter Tretyakov goes on Metal code optimization – Optimizing Metal: Stitch several Metal functions into a single shader using MTLFunctionStitchingGraph;
  
  
• Michael Tsai covers Core Data configuration – Turning Off Core Data Persistent History Tracking;
  
  
• And couple of guides by AppleInsider – Getting started with WidgetKit: Making your first macOS Widget and Understanding MetalKit: Getting started with Apple's graphics framework.

And one video on SwiftData:

That's a lot. Weekend will be packed.

July is approaching (and we hope to see news on Developer Labs and Developer Kits for Apple Vision Pro), but so far, here is a fresh list of great articles to read over the weekend.

• Natascha Fadeeva goes through String Catalog feature in Xcode 15 – How to use String Catalogs for localization in Swift;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan goes one SwiftUI modifier at the time – Modifier Monday: .containerRelativeFrame(_ axes:);
  
  
• Generate RESTful APIs with Swift in 2023 by Marco Eidinger is covering OpenAPI code generation package;
  
  
• Keith Harrison continues his series of WWDC23 lab notes with Core Data – WWDC23 Core Data Lab Notes;
  
  
• Mastering ScrollView in SwiftUI. Scroll Position by Majid Jabrayilov covers new features in scroll views;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains usage of #Preview macro – #Preview SwiftUI Views using Macros;
  
  
• Daniel Jalkut reviews view clipping behavior changes in macOS Sonoma – View Clipping Changes in macOS 14 Sonoma;
  
  
• The One Swift 5.9 Feature to Start Using Now by Leonardo Maia Pugliese goes through couple of new Swift features for everybody to try;
  
  
• Scott Grosch explores new tool to send push notifications – Push Notifications Console: Apple’s Game-Changing New Tool ;
  
  
• For those using ETTrace Itay Brenner & Noah Martin cover migration process from CocoaPods to SwiftPM – Moving ETTrace from CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager;
  
  
• Sarun W. covers symbol animations – Built-in symbol animations in UIKit controls.

And that is it for this weekend. Have some rest, stay hydrated (especially, if you're in the areas with heat waves) and come back for next portion of great reads next week!

Weekend is here, so is another list of great reads.

• Starting with good NSPredicate guide by Natascha Fadeeva – Get started with NSPredicate to filter NSFetchRequest in Core Data;
  
  
• Activities and attachments in the XCTest framework by Majid Jabrayilov covers good practices to make your tests more understandable by other developers;
  
  
• Marco Eidinger covers important topic of debugging of authentication flow – Debugging ASWebAuthenticationSession;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explores proper error handling approaches in Swift – The operation couldn’t be completed: solving errors in Swift;
  
  
• From Concept to Code: Strategies for Planning Animations in SwiftUI is truly nice guide by Leonardo Maia Pugliese on animations in SwiftUI;
  
  
• A little bit of pixel hunting from David Smith – Spot the Difference;
  
  
• SwiftUI layout technique is covered in Working with percentages in SwiftUI layout by Ole Begemann;
  
  
• Using foregroundColor(), foregroundStyle() or tint() to set text color in SwiftUI by Natalia Panferova explores several ways of setting element color in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Couple of hints by Jesse Squires – Improving multiplatform SwiftUI code and Xcode Tip: filter to show modified files only;
  
  
• Enabling the Inspection of Web Content in Apps by Patrick Angle provides invaluable help on debugging of web content;
  
  
• And nice guide on attributed strings in iOS 15 and up – AttributedString in iOS 15 by Sarun W.

And that is it for today. 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!

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!