Tag: Reading

It's December already. And we're getting our last installments of good reads in this year.

• Francesco Perchiazzi explores spatial computing development patterns in Embracing Extended Reality: visionOS challenges;
  
  
• Create an AsyncStream from withObservationTracking() function by Natalia Panferova is about merging new observation framework with structured concurrency;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva continues his series on SwiftData – How to store images in SwiftData;
  
  
• Mastering MapKit in SwiftUI. Basics is Majid Jabrayilov another good take on using maps in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee gives overview of Swift language development process – Swift Evolution: Reading and learning from proposals;
  
  
• Matteo Altobello explores SwiftUI app lifecycle in Accessing the app life cycle within a SwiftUI app;
  
  
• Create Your Own Step Counter SwiftUI App in 5 Minutes by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is a great guide on how to build full app on SwiftUI;
  
  
• And another take by Matteo Altobello on animations in RealityKit – Play an animation in RealityKit.

And this is it for today. Next week we'll have more great articles to read.

This week is quite short in US. So, good reads come early this time.

• How to migrate to a new schema with SwiftData in iOS by Natascha Fadeeva is a good start for those who want to adopt new persistence framework;
  
  
• Small development perspective on Assistive Access by Jordan Morgan – Checking Out Assistive Access;
  
  
• Optimizing paywall placement: The key to unlocking more app subscribers by Peter Meinertzhagen goes through monetization approach for mobile apps;
  
  
• Keith Harrison explores SwiftUI Split View implementations – SwiftUI SplitView Compact Column Control;
  
  
• Mark Szymczyk covers Core Data code generation issues and how to deal with some of those – Dealing with Core Data Duplicate Class Errors;
  
  
• Scoped animations in SwiftUI by Majid Jabrayilov covers animation techniques in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee goes through testing techniques for modern Swift concurrency – Unit testing async/await Swift code;
  
  
• How to Generate a Useful Xcode Gitignore to Avoid Noise in Git by Jon Reid will help to make better project handling with git;
  
  
• Using Observation framework outside of SwiftUI by Natalia Panferova explains use of new observation macros;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese goes through algorithms in Conquering the Climbing Stairs Challenge with Swift: A Dynamic Programming Approach.

And with this, we're wrapping up. See you next week for another pack of good reads!

It's Friday. Actually it is rainy Friday here in Bay Area, so it's a perfect weather to read through some of great reads for developers.

• Natascha Fadeeva guides on how to adopt new localization workflow – How to migrate from Localizable.strings to String Catalogs;
  
  
• If you like to try working in other text editors – The complete guide to iOS & macOS development in Neovim by Wojciech Kulik will be just for you;
  
  
• Another great take by Natascha Fadeeva, this time on subscriptions – How to implemet a free trial period for StoreKit 2 subscriptions in iOS;
  
  
• David Smith experiments with watchOS designs – Matching the Modular Ultra watch face with SF Font Alternatives;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee will help you debug your SwiftUI app – Debugging SwiftUI views: what caused that change?
  
  
• TDD in a SwiftUI World: Let’s Begin! by Jon Reid is a great start into TDD approach;
  
  
• Matteo Altobello continues series on accessibility – Preparing your App for Voice Over: Accessibility Value;
  
  
• Unit Test Expected Failures in Swift by Leonardo Maia Pugliese covers aspect of testing errors that are expected;
  
  
• Emanuele Agosta covers spatial computing concepts in Understanding spatial awareness: immersive experiences;
  
  
• Tiago Gomes Pereira guides through new transitions for numeric values in SwiftUI – Animating numeric text in SwiftUI with the Content Transition modifier.

And this is it for today. We'll be back with new articles next week (probably, a little bit earlier due to Thanksgiving).

Weekend good reads is here with another pack of interesting articles to go over this weekend.

• Natalia Panferova covers SwiftUI hierarchical colors support for backgrounds in iOS 17 – Hierarchical background styles in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Structural type system in Swift is explored by Alex Ozun – Greater type safety with Structural Typing in Swift;
  
  
• Custom Traits and SwiftUI by Keith Harrison is about updates to traits system in iOS 17 and its use in SwiftUI and UIKit;
  
  
• David Smith shares nice approach to make smooth animations for analog clocks – Calculating a Smooth Clock Hands Animation;
  
  
• Visual effects in SwiftUI by Majid Jabrayilov is all about applying transformations to views in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Pasquale Vittorosi provides hints on how to better support VoiceOver in your app – Preparing your App for VoiceOver: customizing the Sort Priority;
  
  
• Domenico De Luca continues topic of accessibility focusing on visual elements – Ensure Visual Accessibility: Glyphs, Icons and Shapes;
  
  
• Adding custom gestures to an AR application with SwiftUI by Matteo Altobello covers augmented reality gestures in SwiftUI.

And that is it for this week. See you next time!

It's November already! Most stores already started their holiday preparations.. but we're developers, so let's focus on some technical topics on this weekend.

• Natascha Fadeeva gives some hints on SwiftData usage with SwiftUI – How to get a SwiftData model container and context in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Registering For Trait Changes by Keith Harrison provides a hint on how to update your UIKit code working with traits to iOS 17;
  
  
• Javier continues his series on SwiftUI animations – Advanced SwiftUI Animations – Part 7: PhaseAnimator;
  
  
• Mastering ContentUnavailableView in SwiftUI by Majid Jabrayilov covers important minor things to make your "empty" views nicer;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee covers promotions in Promotional offers: Increase App Revenue using discounts;
  
  
• Matteo Altobello explores gesture implementation with RealityKit views – Using RealityKit gestures in an AR application with SwiftUI;
  
  
• Animatable Dual Axis Graph by David Smith is another great take on making nicely looking UI for graphs;
  
  
• And another installment of his visionOS series – visionOS Friday: Tinting a Glassy Ornament.

This list is shorter than usual. Hopefully, we'll catch things up next time!

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!

Another weekend is coming, so here are some good reads to spend some free time.

• Nice article from Quentin Zervaas on Action Button support in watchOS apps – Adding Support for Apple Watch Ultra Action Button;
  
  
• Wojciech Kulik explores different IDEs for Apple development – How to develop iOS and macOS apps in IDEs like Neovim or VS Code?;
  
  
• Quick developer guide on SwiftData for iOS by Natascha Fadeeva goes through new persistence framework in iOS 17;
  
  
• RevenueCat publishes payment calendar which would be useful, if you sell apps or have in-app purchases or subscriptions – Apple fiscal calendar year and payment dates;
  
  
• Keith Harrison provides overview of new stub view available in iOS 17 – Content Unavailable Views;
  
  
• Being a good citizen in the land of SwiftSyntax by Point-Free Pointers covers important considerations when working with SwiftSyntax framework;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan promotes an approach to work with third party dependencies – Masking Third Party Dependencies;
  
  
• Mastering Preview macro in Swift by Majid Jabrayilov is great collection of hints on using new #Preview macro;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee goes through thread dispatch mechanisms in modern Swift concurrency – Thread dispatching and Actors: understanding execution;
  
  
• Designing for spatial computing: Understanding spatial awareness by Emanuele Agosta covers aspects of designing Apple Vision Pro apps.

That would be it for this week. Come back next Friday and we'll share more great articles.

We're gearing towards the end of the year. Here is 41st installment of Good Reads in 2023. Let's see what we've got for this week.

• Monitoring App Usage using the Screen Time Framework by Quentin Zervaas explains use of Apple's lightweight MDM framework;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva explains purchase restoration with StoreKit 2 – How to restore in-app purchases with StoreKit 2 for iOS;
  
  
• Using new preview mechanism in UIKit is covered in Replacing IBDesignable with Xcode Previews by Keith Harrison;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov covers haptic feedback APIs in SwiftUI – Sensory feedback in SwiftUI;
  
  
• @preconcurrency: Incremental migration to concurrency checking by Antoine van der Lee is a great guide for gradual adoption of modern Swift concurrency;
  
  
• Tiago Gomes Pereira goes through location tracking with Swift – Updating the User’s Location with Core Location and Swift Concurrency in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Designing for spatial computing: from iOS and iPadOS to visionOS by Emanuele Agosta is a deep dive on spatial computing design;
  
  
• ChatGPT is still a hot topic, here is a take on use of AI in development by Mina H. Gerges – The Do’s and Don’ts of Using AI in Software Development;
  
  
• Peter Meinertzhagen goes through ways of monetizing subscription apps – 9 PR ideas to promote your subscription app;
  
  
• Quinn “The Eskimo!” shares tips on working with Developer ID – The Care and Feeding of Developer ID.

And now, we could get some rest over the weekend. Get back next time – we'll have something interesting. As always :)

This is 40th edition of good reads in this year. Let's go through today's list.

• Swift team publishes Debugging Improvements in Swift 5.9, covering Swift 5.9 updates in aspect of debugging tooling;
  
  
• Simplified Responsive Design Mode by WebKit team covers Safari 17 additions for responsive design;
  
  
• Nikita Prokopov described how Unicode works – The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!);
  
  
• Get started with StoreKit 2 for iOS by Natascha Fadeeva explains improvements in in-app purchase processing in StoreKit;
  
  
• Mark Struzinski explains new App Intents framework usage with shortcuts – Creating Shortcuts with App Intents;
  
  
• SwiftUI custom buttons are explained in Creating a SwiftUI Toolbar Button with an Image and a Label by Mark Szymczyk;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov dives deep into Observation framework – Mastering Observation framework in Swift;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee thinks on best minimum iOS version to support – Picking your minimum iOS version to support;
  
  
• Javier continues his long series on SwiftUI animations – Advanced SwiftUI Animations – Part 6: CustomAnimation;
  
  
• Great analytic tools comparison by Brian Capps – Comparing the Performance of the Top 6 Analytics SDKs for iOS;
  
  
• Daniel Jalkut shares two articles on Xcode build settings and project configuration – Xcode 15 Duplicate Library Linker Warnings and Conditional Xcode Build Settings.

And this is it for today. We'll get back next week with another pack of great reads.

Fall is here, another nice weekend is here too. Let's go through great articles.

• Point-free pointers advertise their new tool to test Swift Macros – A new tool for testing macros in Swift;
  
  
• Apple added new lifecycle method to UIView, Keith Harrison covers it in UIKit View Lifecycle - viewIsAppearing;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on charts – Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Pie and Donut charts.;
  
  
• The Future of Accessing User Location in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is covering location tracking aspects in modern apps;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee goes through parameter packs in Swift – Value and Type parameter packs in Swift explained with examples;
  
  
• Bruno Rocha goes deep into implementation details of Swift structured concurrency – How async/await works internally in Swift;
  
  
• Craig Hockenberry explores design changes in watchOS – The Timer in watchOS 10.

And that is it. Come back next week for more great articles!