Tag: Packages

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

Swift team presented new Swift package for algorithms created on top of AsyncSequence.

This packages provides cross-platform open source time-based algorithms to be applied in various applications.

AsyncAlgorithms is a package for algorithms that work with values over time. That includes those primarily about time, like debounce and throttle, but also algorithms about order like combineLatest and merge. Operations that work with multiple inputs (like zip does on Sequence) can be surprisingly complex to implement, with subtle behaviors and many edge cases to consider. A shared package can get these details correct, with extensive testing and documentation, for the benefit of all Swift apps.

Swift Blog

GitHub: swift-async-algorithms

Swift Blog: Introducing Swift Async Algorithms

Flame is a modular Flutter game engine that provides a complete set of solutions for games. Provides you with a simple implementation of the game cycle and the necessary functions that you may need in the game, like input, images, sprites, animation, collision detection, and a component system, which is called Flame Component System (abbreviated FCS).