Tag: Logging

It's almost halloween here, but our regular list of great reads is not spooky at all!

• Quentin Zervaas goes through Focus Filters API to allow all to respond to user's current needs – Showing Relevant Data Using Focus Filters;
  
  
• Introduction to bash scripting for iOS developers by Natascha Fadeeva will make you better shell users;
  
  
• Natalia Panferova navigates through logging changes in Xcode 15 – Filtering logs in Xcode 15;
  
  
• Improving app settings management is covered in User Defaults reading and writing in Swift by Antoine van der Lee;
  
  
• Generating Random Numbers Elegantly in Swift by Jordan Morgan explores random generators in Swift;
  
  
• Pasquale Vittorosi goes through VoiceOver and other accessibility traits in Preparing your App for VoiceOver: use Accessibility Label;
  
  
• Domenico De Luca continues accessibility topic with Ensure Visual Accessibility: supporting the Large Content Viewer;
  
  
• Swift metatypes are not that hard to understand – Leonardo Maia Pugliese covers those in Swift Metatypes: What They Are and Why You Should Care;
  
  
• Holidays are coming soon, learn how to handle special pricing – How to run a holiday sale in App Store Connect for iOS subscription apps by Charlie Chapman;
  
  
• David Smith explains his design decisions in Design Evolution: Offline Map Downloader, and also great new series on visionOS – Introducing visionOS Fridays;
  
  
• Using the ARKit coaching view in a SwiftUI AR application by Matteo Altobello helps navigating users through AR apps.

Wrapping up for this weekend and see you next time in November!

Heat waves are attacking California, so probably more time to be spent under AC or at the beach. Anyway, we still have good list of nice reads for developers.

• Marco Eidinger shares his experience with SwiftPM – Why is it so damn difficult to create a binary framework for your Swift Package;
  
  
• SwiftUI onChange Deprecation by Keith Harrison covers aspects of migration to iOS 17 SwiftUI state management;
  
  
• Jesse Squires shares his simple yet important tip on UserDefaults – Stop prefixing your UserDefaults keys;
  
  
• Good article on mixing SceneKit and SwiftUI by Mark Szymczyk – Scene Editor Development: Showing a SwiftUI View Based on a Selection;
  
  
• Point-free Pointers share their approach on testing asynchronous code – Announcing Concurrency Extras: Useful, testable Swift concurrency., Reliably testing async code in Swift;
  
  
• Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Selection. by Majid Jabrayilov covers interaction aspect in charts;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee covers logging in modern applications – OSLog and Unified logging as recommended by Apple;
  
  
• How to Create Callback-like Behavior Using AsyncStream in Swift by Lee Kah Seng is showing to add completion blocks to asynchronous tasks (like in good old days...);
  
  
• Another article by Jesse Squires on SwiftUI – How to customize NavigationLink accessory views in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan rebuilds Thread's UI in SwiftUI – Thread’s iOS Interface in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Push Notifications Options in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese goes through use of notifications in SwiftUI apps.

And just one site to bookmark collection – Laws of UX is a collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces. by Jon Yablonski. Site brings a lot of user experience hints with examples. Definitely recommend to keep an eye on it.

And with this – let's start this weekend! Come back next Friday for more good reads!

WeTransfer released its diagnostics collecting library as open-source project.

This library does not use backend to collect the diagnostics but relies on user's explicit action to share diagnostic messages with the developer.

Application developers could add their own information to report.

The library allows to easily attach the Diagnostics Report as an attachment to the MFMailComposeViewController.

•  Integrated with the MFMailComposeViewController
• Default reporters include:
  • App metadata
  • System metadata
  • System logs divided per session
  • UserDefaults
•  Possibility to filter out sensitive data using a DiagnosticsReportFilter
•  A custom DiagnosticsLogger to add your own logs
•  Smart insights like "⚠️ User is low on storage" and "✅ User is using the latest app version"
•  Flexible setup to add your own smart insights
•  Flexible setup to add your own custom diagnostics
•  Native cross-platform support, e.g. iOS, iPadOS and macOS

Diagnostics

GitHub: Diagnostics

Long time no see. Let's get back with good reads for the weekend before WWDC22. Monday will give us much more news for the next year, but today let's take a look on couple of interesting articles.

• Some important thing regarding usage of enumerated() worth repeating – Avoiding Swift’s enumerated() by Michael Tsai;
  
  
• Transitions in SwiftUI by Chris Eidhof digs into transition animations in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Using DocC on GitHub Pages: Pros and Cons by Jesse Squires might help open source developers to adopt DocC for project documentation;
  
  
• Couple of great articles by Ole Begemann – A heterogeneous dictionary with strong types in Swift, AttributedString’s Codable format and what it has to do with Unicode and How @MainActor works;
  
  
• Daniel Jalkut covers interesting topic of menu bar integration in macOS – Designing macOS Menu Bar Extras;
  
  
• Wordle game implementation in two parts by Bill Morefield – How to Make a Game Like Wordle in SwiftUI: Part One and How to Make a Game Like Wordle in SwiftUI: Part Two;
  
  
• Server-side Swift gets more and more attention lately, Jari Koopman gives good introduction in Introduction to Metrics in Server-Side Swift;
  
  
• iOS Accessibility in SwiftUI: Create Accessible Charts using Audio Graphs by David Piper covers new accessibility features in iOS 15 (expect new articles soon for features planned for next release);
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov published several great articles on logging and performance analysis: Logging in Swift, Exporting data from Unified Logging System in Swift, Measuring app performance in Swift, Modeling errors in Swift and SwiftUI-related – Mastering TimelineView in SwiftUI, The power of accessibilityChildren view modifier in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Using private API is prohibited... but... Calling Private APIs in iOS by Jordan Morgan will cover this topic, if that is truly necessary;
  
  
• Also, SwiftUI hints by Jordan Morgan – Send Events from SwiftUI to UIKit and Vice Versa and Handle Keyboard Presses Using SwiftUI in macOS;
  
  
• Some testing hints by Natascha Fadeeva – Testing remote iOS push notifications in a simulator with simctl and Getting started with UI testing for SwiftUI.

That's it for this weekend. Next week will be quite packed with things to read and watch!