Tag: Core Data

Another round of great articles for Apple developers is here.

• Let's start with device management tips – How to Use Apple Managed Device Attestation to secure networks by Chip Loder;
  
  
• Core Data Reform: Achieving Elegant Concurrency Operations like SwiftData by Fatbobman is covering approach on how to make Core Data compatible with modern concurrency model in Swift;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva guides us through use of GraphQL in Getting started with Apollo iOS for GraphQL in Swift and GraphQL essentials for iOS development;
  
  
• Some scenarios for CloudKit queries based on CKReference fields by Jaanus Kase explains use of queries in CloudKit-enabled apps;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov explains layout tips in SwiftUI – Content margins in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Wade Tregaskis talks about his experience with multiple displays on Macs – Multiple displays on a Mac sucks;
  
  
• Privacy Manifests and Required Reason APIs on iOS by Nishant Desai covers upcoming requirement from Apple;
  
  
• Donny Wals shares multiple articles on Swift and concurrency – Dispatching to the Main thread with MainActor in Swift, What are lazy vars in Swift?, if case let in Swift explained and Deciding between a computed property and a function in Swift;
  
  
• Using @Environment in SwiftUI to link Swift Package dependencies by Antoine van der Lee helps mixing SwiftUI Environment and packages;
  
  
• Charlie Chapman explains errors in StoreKit – What is SKErrorDomain Error 0 and what can I do about it?;
  
  
• Tiago Gomes Pereira explain how to use maps in SwiftUI – Searching for points of interest in MapKit with SwiftUI and another take on displaying 360 images in visionOS – Creating an immersive experience with a 360-degree image in visionOS;
  
  
• How to Mirror Any View in SwiftUI? by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is a good example on how to add view effects in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Luca Palmese explains uses of ML – Applying sentiment analysis using the Natural Language framework.

And finishing up with great video by David Smith – An Inclusive Mindset.

This is it for today. Come back next time for more great topics!

Yet another great installment of good reads for Apple developers. With quite a lot of really interesting articles.

• Anton Begehr shares hints on how to test schema migrations in SwiftData – Testing SwiftData Migrations;
  
  
• Getting started with Apollo iOS for GraphQL with Swift by Natascha Fadeeva goes through basics of GraphQL in iOS apps;
  
  
• Keith Harrison covers use of system unified logging support in Xcode – Xcode Console and Unified Logging;
  
  
• Wade Tregaskis explores controversial design choice in macOS – Proactive Peek & Reveal on Edge Hover and covers various ways of hiding views in SwiftUI – Hiding SwiftUI views;
  
  
• Discovering Swift Algorithms package by Majid Jabrayilov is dedicated to Swift package for collection algorithms;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee provides great guide on making your images respecting Dynamic Type scaling – How to use @ScaledMetric in SwiftUI for Dynamic Type support;
  
  
• Giovanni Monaco goes through window management in visionOS – Configuring default window and volume size in visionOS;
  
  
• Understanding Once and For All SwiftUI Alignment Guides by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is a comprehensive review of layout techniques in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Christian Tietze shares his impressions on web site created by Chris Eidhof and the team –  SwiftUI Field Guide;
  
  
• How to determine where tasks and async functions run in Swift? by Donny Wals helps to navigate developers on actual threads running async functions;
  
  
• Chip Loder guides through String Catalogs in Xcode – How to use Xcode String catalogs to localize your app;
  
  
• How to use Media Source Extensions with AirPlay by WebKit team provides hints on how to implement efficient media streaming on the web;
  
  
• Michael Tsai shares several interesting tips and tricks in Swift – Swift Tricks;
  
  
• If you play with Quartz in macOS, you might want to check your settings as per Wade Tregaskis – Secret Sonoma design lead: Barbie;
  
  
• Garrett Barker creates quick overview on new Observation framework – Understanding Observation in Swift: Simplifying SwiftUI Development.

And that's it for this week. See you next Friday with another great pack of interesting articles!

It's Friday and that means that we have some great reads for this weekend.

• Wade Tregaskis shares interesting article – SwiftUI drag & drop does not support file promises on SwiftUI implementation of drag and drop;
  
  
• Disabling Core Data CloudKit Logging by Keith Harrison is a great hint on clearing out your debug console;
  
  
• Mark Szymczyk shares guides on how to start macOS development with SwiftUI – How to Learn SwiftUI to Develop Mac Apps;
  
  
• Two interesting articles by Tiago Gomes Pereira – Extra Large Title text styles in visionOS on content sizing in visionOS and Create an animated transition with Matched Geometry Effect in SwiftUI on animations in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Donny Wals does great job comparing ObservableObject protocol with new @Observable macro – Comparing @Observable to ObservableObjects;
  
  
• What is @testable Annotation in Swift? by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is uncovering keyword simplifying test creation;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan goes through tricks with SwiftUI layout engine – Fun Alignment Guide Tricks;
  
  
• Emanuele Agosta goes through design considerations on visionOS user interface – Ensuring interface legibility and contrast in visionOS.

And while we're here... Our podcast Apple Treats is starting new season on February 15 at 10am PT. We'll talk on how to become better developer with some help from Apple.

See you on the podcast and then – next Friday for more good reads.

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