Tag: Layout

Lucky episode of good reads today! And we've got a lot to cover on last day of March.

• Marcel Voss explains how to deal with new Swift features conditionally – Enabling Upcoming Swift Language Features;
  
  
• And good tip on source code checks for Swift features – SDK conditional code with canImport(module, _version: "1.2.3.4") by Marco Eidinger;
  
  
• How the relative size modifier interacts with stack views by Ole Begemann continues topic of complex layouts in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Keith Harrison explains sort options on SwiftUI tables – Custom Sort Comparators;
  
  
• How to change JSON keys by using Swift's CodingKey protocol by Natascha Fadeeva is covering Codable customizations;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov goes into details on new approaches of sharing content in SwiftUI – Sharing content in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Morphology in Swift by Jordan Morgan goes deep into Swift number localization techniques;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng continues his series on Widgets – How to Hide Sensitive Widget Data When Device Is Locked?;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains location debugging practices in simulator – Location Simulation in Xcode’s Simulator;
  
  
• How to fix "You are not authorized to make purchases of this InApp in Sandbox at this time" error by Sarun W. helps to fix development issues with in-app purchases;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese provides extensive guide on persistence solutions for iOS apps – SQLite vs Core Data in iOS Development: Which One Should You Choose?

We're finishing with video by David Smith on design.

With this – have a great weekend and see you in April!

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 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!

iPhone 14 Plus is now available, more bigger screens will fill the streets. And yes, bigger screens are better for reading.

• Brett Ohland gives deep dive into Measurement type in Swift – Over 3,000 Words On What The Measurement Type Is And Why You Should Be Using It;
  
  
• Creating your own custom RawRepresentable Enum in Swift is a great article on powerful enum features in Swift by Leonardo Maia Pugliese, and another one on SwiftUI – Accordion in SwiftUI – DisclosureGroup Explorations;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva provides overview of memory management in new Swift concurrency – Memory management for async/await and tasks in Swift;
  
  
• Sarun W. shares three interesting articles on SwiftUI – How to create Rounded Corners View in SwiftUI, How to change SwiftUI Font Width and How to add Keyboard Shortcuts in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Great take on new layouts in SwiftUI – SwiftUI View That Fits by Keith Harrison;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains meaning of Never in Swift – Never keyword in Swift: return type explained with code examples;
  
  
• State Restoration in SwiftUI by Tom Elliott will help to make your app a little more magical;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov provides great overview of new navigation approaches in SwiftUI – Mastering NavigationStack in SwiftUI. NavigationPath.;
  
  
• Using the dismiss action from the SwiftUI environment by Natalia Panferova explains new ways of dismissing the views.

And that is it for today, have a great weekend!

Yes, iPhone 14 preorders are live! And you-know-what Ultra is already backordered for two months. So, let's read something good over the weekend.

• Rens Breur shares couple of great articles on SwiftUI internals – SwiftUI's diffing algorithm, The SwiftUI render loop and Don't use escaping closures in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese also writes on SwiftUI redraw investigations – Exploring SwiftUI Redraw Behavior with Instruments;
  
  
• Three UIKit Protips by Steve Landey explores great tips for almost forgotten framework;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues series on SwiftUI controls – Customizing toolbars in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Accessibility in SwiftUI explained for UIKit developers by Antoine van der Lee is a must read for every developer to bring apps to more people;
  
  
• Great guide on WidgetKit by Natascha Fadeeva – How to build a configurable widget with WidgetKit and SwiftUI;
  
  
• The SwiftUI Lab starts series of articles on SwiftUI Layout protocol – The SwiftUI Layout Protocol – Part 1;
  
  
• Getting Started with Swift Regex by Keith Harrison is a great piece on brand new regular expression framework;
  
  
• Sarun W. shared great articles on SwiftUI and specifically fonts – How to make SwiftUI button with buttonStyle expand to full width, How to use UIFont in SwiftUI Font and SF Font Expanded, Condensed, and Compressed: Three New font width styles in iOS 16.

And that is it for this wallet-endangering weekend. See you next week!

Maximilian Mackh developed a library that provides SwiftUI-like DSL to construct view layouts in UIKit – InterfaceBuilder.swift. Currently in beta, project is available on GitHub.

InterfaceBuilder.swift provides simple layout primitives – Split and Scroll which could be customized to build many layout variations. Tool might not solve every issue with layouts, however, it could significantly speed up the development of UIKit applications.

Blog post: InterfaceBuilder.swift

GitHub: mmackh/BaseComponents

Reference: InterfaceBuilder.swift