Tag: Objective-C

It's already February... Well, we still have couple of interesting reads for you.

• Setup a 3D Chessboard With SwiftUI and RealityKit by Mark Lucking – nice intro into AR apps in modern era;
  
  
• Andrew Barba shares guide on Vercel, new solution allowing deployment of server-side Swift apps – Deploy server side Swift applications on Vercel;
  
  
• How to import Objective-C types as optionals or non-optionals into Swift by Natascha Fadeeva reminds developers on how to improve interoperability between Swift and Objective-C;
  
  
• Automatically run Swift code when your framework gets initialized by Marco Eidinger also finds good use of Objective-C in modern projects;
  
  
• John Sundell explains how to use scrollable views in SwiftUI – Observing the content offset of a SwiftUI ScrollView;
  
  
• Kasper Lahti covers styling in SwiftUI – Styling Components in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Xcode Simulator Directories Exploration by Antoine van der Lee is a great guide on iOS Simulator directory structure;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng provides hints on keeping widgets up to date – How to Fetch and Show Remote Data on a Widget?;
  
  
• Mastering Error Handling in SwiftUI: A Guide to Presenting Errors by Leonardo Maia Pugliese guides developers on ways to respond to errors in SwiftUI application;
  
  
• Did you ever wanted to print incoming JSON in nice formatted way – Jordan Morgan got you covered in Converting Data into a Formatted JSON Swift String;
  
  
• David Smith continues his design notes diary series – Reasons for a Staycation Greycation and DND 21: Byte Compression for Watch Connectivity;
  
  
• Peter Meinertzhagen provides great hints on monetization – What’s the Best Way to Monetize Kids Apps?;
  
  
• We all get and give feedbacks, good article on how to make those better – How to Write Impactful Peer Feedback by Michael Katz.

And, in case you missed it – couple of books are available for free, maybe you'll find something useful there. See you next week!

Jordan Morgan has negotiated open-sourcing of his Spend Stack app. Source code of this app might be used for multiple features – CloudKit integration, animations and transitions.

There are several restrictions on reusing Spend Stack source code and naming, check the blog post for possible usages.

Code is mostly Objective-C, however, could be still relevant.

GitHub: Spend-Stack-Public

Reference: Spend Stack is Now Open Source

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!

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!