Tag: Debugging

Craig Hockenberry posted about open-source utility that simplified some of the typical debugging techniques with Simulator.

You could easily find your app's bundle, documents directory, group containers or preferences. This significantly reduces a need in printing those through debug console.

IconFactory: SimBuddy (zip)

GitHub: SimBuddy (source code)

furbo.org: SimBuddy – Your Simulator’s BFF

One beta closer to release of iOS 16 and new weekend brings us new articles to read.

• Peter Tretyakov continues his series on Metal with Shaders Explained: Gradients – really great deep dive;
  
  
• Using UIPasteControl in a UIMenu in iOS 16 by Will Bishop reminds on improvements with pasteboard access in iOS 16;
  
  
• Great tip on debugging main thread stalls by Jesse Squires – Implementing a main thread watchdog on iOS;
  
  
• Sarun W. shares two great articles on SwiftUI layout details – What is the fixedSize modifier in SwiftUI and Responsive layout in SwiftUI with ViewThatFit;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov writes another great article on SwiftUI views, this time it is Grid – Mastering grid layout in SwiftUI;
  
  
• How To Create Custom UICollectionViewListCell Using SwiftUI by Lee Kah Seng navigates on use of both UIKit and SwiftUI efficiently;
  
  
• Great cheat sheet on accessibility – Cheat sheet on VoiceOver gestures for iOS by Natascha Fadeeva;
  
  
• Shared with You implementation and testing explained by Antoine van der Lee goes into details of new iOS 16 feature that helps to share app content between users;
  
  
• Point-Free Pointers share new article on adding structured concurrency to Composable Architecture – Async Composable Architecture;
  
  
• Recreating C++ atoi Function in Swift by Leonardo Maia Pugliese shows interesting exercise on using Swift.

Come back next weekend for more interesting topics!

Holiday season is approaching. Let's see what we've got for this weekend.

• Keith Harrison shares an article Editing Multiple Constraints covering one of the important aspects of UI development for UIKit apps;
  
  
• Good take by Donny Wals on Combine internals – What exactly is a Combine AnyCancellable?;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee dives into async/await and Combine usage – Creating an App Update Notifier using Combine and async/await;
  
  
• What role do Tasks play within Swift’s concurrency system? by John Sundell covers another aspect of new Swift concurrency;
  
  
• Interesting hint by Sarunw – How to decode enums ignoring case in Swift Codable;
  
  
• Monitoring HTTP Traffic with Instruments by Vijay Subrahmanian covers good debugging techniques for networking calls;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his overview of SwiftUI – Customizing view content shape in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Introduction to App Modularisation with Swift Package Manager: A tale to be told by Leonardo Maia Pugliese dives into approaches for modularization in modern apps.

And that would be it for this issue, have a nice weekend!

Episode 9 of weekend good reads for Apple developers is here. Let's get some articles for the weekend!

• Custom SwiftUI Environment Values Cheatsheet by Federico Zanetello provides nice recap on SwiftUI Environment;
  
  
• SwiftUI safe area management is explained in Managing safe area in SwiftUI by Majid Jabrayilov;
  
  
• John Sundell dives into basics of Swift Structured Concurrency – Using Swift’s concurrency system to run multiple tasks in parallel;
  
  
• Good guide on preference engine SwiftUI View Preferences Tutorial for iOS by Andrew Tetlaw;
  
  
• Jesse Squires covers Swift Package testing in How to test an iOS Swift package without an Xcode project and Workaround: Xcode 13 failure after running framework project tests;
  
  
• Daniel Jalkut covers important topic on logging – Dangerous Logging in Swift;
  
  
• Awesome guide on crash debugging by Bruno Rocha – How To Solve Any iOS Crash Ever.

Have a nice weekend!

More interesting topics on development for Apple platforms in sixth weekend good reads.

• Awesome article on testing memory issues by Bruno Rocha – Unit Testing Weak References / Retain Cycles in Swift;
  
  
• Building editable lists with SwiftUI by John Sundell covers SwiftUI lists;
  
  
• Continuing SwiftUI topic with SwiftUI Progressive Disclosures Tutorial by Michael Katz;
  
  
• SwiftUI vs UIKit/AppKit environment is explained in UIKit/AppKit and SwiftUI's Environment propagation by Federico Zanetello;
  
  
• Simplifying Backwards Compatibility in Swift by Dave DeLong explains simple approach for new API usage in older releases;
  
  
• Good refresher on Objective-C – Effective Objective-C: Getting Familiar with Objective-C by Hassan ElDesouky;
  
  
• New networking debugging approaches are covered in Inspecting HTTP Traffic With Instruments by Keith Harrison.

Have a nice weekend!

Starting today we're publishing digest of interesting articles to read over the weekend. This issue covers Swift, SwiftUI and other development topics on Apple platforms.

• One of the important reads which will define Swift development over the years – pitch on Distributed Actors;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng goes publishes Preventing Data Races Using Actors in Swift explaining usage of actors;
  
  
• Federico Zanetello publishes couple of interesting articles – Every SwiftUI Environment Value explained which covers environment values used in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Another Frederico's article is View masking in SwiftUI going from clipping to custom masks over views;
  
  
•  John Sundell publishes review on Codable synthesis for Swift enums. New Swift features allow easy JSON models over enums;
  
  
• Article from Sarun Wongpatcharapakorn goes through JSON data model simplification in How to set custom CodingKey for the convertFromSnakeCase decoding strategy article;
  
  
• Using Variadic Parameters in Swift article from Gabriel Theodoropoulos makes deep dive into Swift feature that is commonly forgotten;
  
  
• Long read on debugging years-old issue – Reverse engineering a 5 year old Xcode issue by Bruno Rocha.