Tag: Interoperability

Another weekend comes with great pack of articles.

• Doug Gregor started a series of articles on Swift for those who previously coded in C++ – Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 1: Intro & Value Types, Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 2: Reference Types & Optionals, Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 3: Extensions and Access Control, Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 4: Generics, Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 5: Type erasure & metatypes;
  
  
• Run-time Polymorphism in Swift by Jordan Rose covers aspects of polymorphism in Swift;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva shares productivity tips on Xcode – Quick tip on how to learn Xcode keyboard shortcuts efficiently;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese goes through text animation in SwiftUI – Number Text Animation in SwiftUI with contentTransition;
  
  
• Fetching OSLog Messages in Swift by Keith Harrison covers logging practices in Swift;
  
  
• Mark Szymczyk guides through launching command-line utilities from Mac app – Running a Command-Line Program from a Mac App;
  
  
• Deep linking for local notifications in SwiftUI by Majid Jabrayilov covers typical patterns of using deep links in notifications;
  
  
• Matt Massicotte provides some explanation on property wrapper actor isolation changes coming to Swift – Concurrency in Swift 6: SE-401;
  
  
• Display empty states with ContentUnavailableView in SwiftUI by Pasquale Vittoriosi is another guide on how to display empty lists;
  
  
• And another one on SVG usage in SwiftUI – Creating Shapes from SVG in a SwiftUI app;
  
  
• Donny Wals explains actor reentrancy – Actor reentrancy in Swift explained;
  
  
• Embracing Imaginary Spatial User Experience in visionOS by Francesco Perchiazzi explores design considerations with visionOS;
  
  
• WebKit team goes through their efforts to improve Safari performance – Optimizing WebKit & Safari for Speedometer 3.0.

This is it for today. Come back next week – we'll prepare more interesting reads.

It's winter here in Bay Area today (it even snows somewhere here), so let's grab some warm beverage and get going.

• Let's start with some old articles on C++ interoperability – How to create a Swift Package from a C++ library and Getting started with Swift-C++ interop by Konstantin Semianov;
  
  
• And couple articles on how to make use of layout system in SwiftUI by the same author – Building a wrapping HStack with the SwiftUI Layout protocol and Building a hexagonal grid with the SwiftUI Layout protocol;
  
  
• Ricky Mondello shares security considerations on Twitter's 2FA changes – Twitter’s Decision to Limit SMS 2FA is Dangerous;
  
  
• Show chart annotations on hover in Swift Charts by Natalia Panferova covers adding interactions to charts;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on charts – Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Legends.;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese provides guide on view mask usage in SwiftUI – Creating Animations with SwiftUI’s Mask View Modifier;
  
  
• The Composable Architecture best practices by Krzysztof Zabłocki – The Composable Architecture - Best Practices;
  
  
• Arbitrary SwiftUI Linear Gradient Rotation by David Smith goes through gradients in SwiftUI;
  
  
• And another take by him on how to use randomness in the apps – Finding Beauty in Randomness and Nature;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan covers important aspects of accessibility – Building For Voice Control;
  
  
• Speeding Up Scanner in Swift by Michael Tsai collects information on text parsing improvements in Swift;
  
  
• And couple of articles by Jesse Squires – How to find and fix premature view controller loading on iOS and Xcode tip: sharing breakpoints across projects.

Let's finish with interesting video on design process by David Smith.

And that is it for today. See you next week!

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!