Tag: Networking

iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro are arriving to first customers. Hopefully, you've got the model you wanted and now you have some time to go through interesting reads.

• Michael Tsai got list of all interesting changes in Swift 5.9;
  
  
• How to intercept and edit a server response with Proxyman for iOS by Natascha Fadeeva is nice overview of network traffic debugging techniques;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese goes through keyboard support in iOS – Discovering All SwiftUI TextField Keyboard Types;
  
  
• With new iPhones being delivered iPhone 15 Screen Sizes by Keith Harrison will help you build pixel-perfect graphics for your apps;
  
  
• WeatherKit Tutorial: Getting Started by Saleh Albuga will guide you through Apple's framework for weather data access;
  
  
• David Smith explores interactive widgets in Widgetsmith 5: Interactive Widgets for iOS 17;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov covers actors in Thread safety in Swift with actors;
  
  
• App Intent driven development in Swift and SwiftUI by Antoine van der Lee goes through new framework triggering integrations with Siri, Shortcuts and other system features;
  
  
• Jon Reid covers interesting aspects of code refactoring in See the Magic of Iterative Refactoring: A Swift Case Study;
  
  
• DocC: Project documentation structure by Marin Todorov (who also worked on DocC) guides through documentation structure;
  
  
• Domenico De Luca explains adoption of Dynamic Type in Supporting Dynamic Type and Larger Text in your app to enhance Accessibility.

And this is it for today. Have some fun over the weekend (especially if you got your new iPhone) and get back next Friday for another pack of great reads!

Okay, I get it, it's weekend before the show. But why would you drop your routine? Let's go through some great technical and one fun article.

• Let's follow the hype with some ChatGPT related topics from Michal Tynior – Pitfalls of the ChatGPT and Fine-tuning OpenAI models;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva provides review of CI/CD concept – Continuous integration and delivery for iOS;
  
  
• Network Path Monitoring by Keith Harrison provides modern way to monitor network availability;
  
  
• Marco Eidinger shares interesting hints on debugger usage – Skip code during debugging in Xcode;
  
  
• Mastering Swift Foundation Formatter API. Basics by Majid Jabrayilov refreshes knowledge on data formatting in Swift;
  
  
• Point-Free Pointers provide guidance on navigation in Composable Architecture – Navigation tools come to the Composable Architecture;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explores code sharing between server and client code in Swift – Share Swift Code between Swift On Server Vapor and Client App;
  
  
• SwiftUI: Trailing label TextField by Magnus Jensen is great example of making nice task-focused UI control;
  
  
• Natalia Panferova gives hints using compositing groups in SwiftUI – Using compositing group for unifying shapes within buttons in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Tiago Gomes Pereira gives great overview of accessibility in SwiftUI – Preparing your App for Voice Over: Labels, Values and Hints;
  
  
• Amazing post on sophisticated debugging techniques by Bruno Rocha – Performance Trace Profiles in iOS: Debugging performance issues you can't reproduce.

And, as promised, fun one – refresh your Apple history knowledge with WWDC 2023: The Pregame Quiz by Jordan Morgan.

Get ready for WWDC23 – next week will be definitely packed with new stuff we'll be learning the whole summer!

It's the end of April, we are getting closer and closer to WWDC, June will definitely be filled with a lot of process. So, let's catch up with all prior-to-conference good reads.

• Natascha Fadeeva shares detailed guide on App Clips, the great way to attract new users – Developer guide on App Clips for iOS;
  
  
• Speedrun Design: Heart Rate Zone View in SwiftUI by David Smith continues series on how iterate through design ideas;
  
  
• Keith Harrison provides good use cases for Swift Reflection API – Using Swift Reflection;
  
  
• PhotosPicker in SwiftUI by Majid Jabrayilov goes through privacy-preserving photo picking API in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng explains on how to properly mix UIKit with SwiftUI – How to Use UIHostingConfiguration to Integrate SwiftUI Views into UIKit Apps;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee provides networking implementation hints in Optimizing your app for Network Reachability;
  
  
• Using TextKit configuration to optimize text display is explained in How to prevent orphan words in text views on iOS and macOS by Jesse Squires;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese guides through date display in Simplify Time Comparisons in Swift with RelativeDateTimeFormatter;
  
  
• SwiftLint in Depth by Ehab Amer explains important pipelines to keep codebase clean;
  
  
• How to use SFSafariViewController in SwiftUI by Sarun W. explains couple of issues on integrating SFSafariViewController into SwiftUI projects.

And that is it for today. Have a great weekend, go through interesting articles and come back next week!

It's already April... Apple announced WWDC23 and we have great reads for you this weekend.

• Natascha Fadeeva shares great guide on Create ML usage – Get started with Create ML to train a machine learning model in iOS;
  
  
• Great article by Chris Eidhof on transition animations in SwiftUI – When Matched Geometry Effect Doesn't Work;
  
  
• Network Extension Debugging on macOS by Antoine van der Lee gets us into networking specifics;
  
  
• Great hint by Jesse Squires on how to get better understanding of how new app works – Exploring a new iOS codebase;
  
  
• Drag and drop transferable data in SwiftUI byMajid Jabrayilov covers drag and drop implementation in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese returns to Combine framework – Merge, CombineLatest, and Zip: Comparing Operators of Combine for iOS;
  
  
• Very great hint by Jordan Morgan on debugging practices when working with JSON payloads – Debugging Codable;
  
  
• Security aspects of macOS are covered in macOS Security Bugs Exposed Safari History and Device Location to Unauthorized Apps by Guilherme Rambo.

And couple of takes on absolutely unrelated article which you can read on your Mac – Apple Has Included Bitcoin Whitepaper in Every Version of macOS Since 2018 (and possible explanation – Here’s why macOS has the Bitcoin whitepaper hidden in its files).

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Thank you and see you next week!

As you could see, there was a delay with good reads for Apple developers. Let's recap most of the good articles for these weeks. This would be long list of reads for the following week, not a weekend.

Let's dive in.

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!

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!