Tag: Packages

Apple promotes notable Swift packages on a special section on swift.org website. Packages are structured into following sections:

• Community Showcase
• Packages with Macros
• Server
• Networking
• Testing
• Debug logging

Site also referenced Swift Package Index as a source of Swift packages.

Swift: Packages

Swift Blog: Introducing Packages on Swift.org

New version of Swift OpenAPI Generator package is released. This update has many new features, but most importantly, it lowers OS version requirements:

• macOS: 13 → 10.15
• iOS: 16 → 13
• tvOS: 16 → 13
• watchOS: 9 → 6

Also, OpenAPI 3.1 is now supported.

GitHub: swift-openapi-generator

Swift Forums: Swift OpenAPI Generator 0.2.0 Released (OpenAPI 3.1, multiple content types)

It's September already! Time flies... School year is started. And we have something new to learn today.

• Natascha Fadeeva gives useful hints on pagination implementation in SwiftUI – How to implement pagination with SwiftUI's List view;
  
  
• Where did we go wrong with testing? by Wojciech Kulik is a great take on testing your code;
  
  
• Sarun W. has a great explanation on issue some developers see – How to fix "libobjc.A.dylib is being read from process memory" error;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov covers SwiftUI integration of StoreKit 2 – Mastering StoreKit 2. SwiftUI view modifiers.;
  
  
• SwiftSyntax: Parse and Generate Swift source code by Antoine van der Lee explains Swift language parsing and will help you writing efficient macros;
  
  
• Chris Eidhof has two great articles on SwiftUI – How To Visualize The Safe Area and Running Code When Your View Appears;
  
  
• Mark Szymczyk also covers SwiftUI – now on Mac – Showing a SwiftUI sheet from a Mac Menu;
  
  
• Improve the build times of your SPM Packages and your apps by Manu Herrera is a great build optimization guide.

And this is it for this week. We will be back next Friday with another great pack of articles!

July is almost over, we've got second beta for visionOS and here comes the weekend. Let's spend it reading some interesting topics for developers.

• Marco Eidinger explains URL parsing in URL extraction for hostname, domain, subdomain and tld in Swift;
  
  
• SwiftData Saving Changes by Keith Harrison goes through some tips on new Swift framework;
  
  
• Wojciech Kulik guides through dependency management using Swift Package Manager – SPM – Sharing Dependencies;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on Swift Charts – Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Scrolling.;
  
  
• The Machine Learning Landscape on iOS by Jordan Morgan lists modern machine learning technologies available for iOS developers;
  
  
• Fixing one of the typical build errors is covered in How to fix "dyld: Library not loaded @rpath" error by Sarun W.;
  
  
• David Smith helps developers to get ready for Vision Pro Developer Labs – Tips for Vision Pro Labs;
  
  
• DocC Tutorial for Swift: Automating Publishing With GitHub Actions by Natan Rolnik explains documentation practices for Swift projects;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese covers SwiftUI transitions in Animating Carrousel Transitions in SwiftUI.

And that is a wrap, come back in August for more.

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!

Swift team introduces Swift HTTP Types package. This package simplifies HTTP request and response creation and parsing.

Package provides strongly typed access to HTTP methods, headers, status codes.

HTTP types work with Foundation and SwiftNIO environments.

GitHub: swift-http-types

Swift Blog: Introducing Swift HTTP Types

While we wait for next beta of visionOS SDK there are still a lot of interesting topics to get familiar with.

• Jordan Morgan covers WidgetKit and AppIntents – Create an Interactive Widget Using App Intents;
  
  
• How to create a custom reusable toolbar in SwiftUI by Natascha Fadeeva goes through some hints to build reusable views in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Marco Eidinger explains complicated uses of Xcode Cloud – Using Swift packages with authentication in Xcode Cloud;
  
  
• Sarah Reichelt goes through modern SwiftUI data flow – SwiftUI Data Flow 2023;
  
  
• And following with Migrating to Observable by Keith Harrison on migration to @Observable macro;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov covers formatting in Mastering Swift Foundation Formatter API. Custom Format Styles;
  
  
• Inspect Web Content on iOS 16.4+ by Marco Eidinger helps making web content inspectable;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explains animations in SwiftUI – Difference Between Implicit and Explicit Animations in SwiftUI;
  
  
• App Intents Spotlight integration using Shortcuts by Antoine van der Lee explains use of App Intents with Shortcuts;
  
  
• Embracing CloudKit by Stuart Wheelwrigh is a cycle of articles covering CloudKit integration.

And that a wrap for this week. Come back next Friday for another big pack of interesting reads.

Sun is back here in Bay Area, weekend is probably going to be quite hot. And we've a lot to read – even couple of not-so-technical articles. Let's dive in.

• How to implement a UIViewController delegate when working with SwiftUI by Natascha Fadeeva covers Coordinator use in SwiftUI UIViewControllerRepresentable;
  
  
• Keith Harrison explains technical aspects of file access in Accessing Security Scoped Files;
  
  
• Christian Tietze shares a hint on how to open Safari on Mac regardless of default browser settings – Safari (for Mac) URL Scheme;
  
  
• How to Define Custom URL Actions for SwiftUI Text Views by Lee Kah Seng covers customization of URL opening handlers in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains Universal Links in iOS – Universal Links implementation on iOS;
  
  
• David Smith shares his design findings in Changing Corners and Designing a Step Goal Live Activity;
  
  
• Exploring Circular Paths: How to Create a Circular Text View in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese covers interesting use of Path with Text in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan provides a beginner's guide to SwiftPM – Creating a Swift Package: Quick Start Gotchas;
  
  
• How to use AttributedString in UIKit by Sarun W. helps to simplify use of attributed strings in SwiftUI and UIKit;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov explains how to easily export and import data via files in SwiftUI – File importing and exporting in SwiftUI;
  
  
• And finishing up with couple of general engineering articles: Dive into People-First Leadership: A Key to Successful Dev Teams, The Hidden Costs of Not Upskilling: Why Developer Training Matters and Going Indie: building a foundation, finding clients, and negotiating rates.

Hope you have time to read these great articles and we'll meet again next Friday!

Homebrew is popular Mac package manager and software distribution platform. Project team updates it to 4.0.0 focusing on performance gains.

Developers are welcome to contribute into Homebrew development by testing beta features or by directly contributing to sources.

GitHub: brew

Homebrew: 4.0.0

Reference: Mac package installer Homebrew updated with speed enhancements & more

Swift FormatStyle was introduced recently. It simplifies display and parsing (via ParseableFormatStyle) of various content.

Third party developer provides support for multiple data types used by developers and could be quite useful for various applications.

GitHub: SwiftFormats

Reference: Example Custom FormatStyles