Tag: Reading

Tough week for IT engineers, but let's try to spend weekend improving our technical skills. There are many articles to go through today, so choose wisely.

• David Smith continues his design-related series: DND 16: Building Custom Controls and DND 17: Kind, Friendly Designs;
  
  
• You can make files of your app visible in system Files app – Make your app's files user-visible on the iPhone by Marco Eidinger covers exactly this topic;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains working with task groups in Swift – Task Groups in Swift explained with code examples;
  
  
• The Difference between Entity and Value Object, and How They Relate to Swift's Identifiable and Equatable Protocols by Christian Tietze explains value and reference types and their differences;
  
  
• Point-Free Pointers share their view on SwiftUI development – Modern SwiftUI;
  
  
• Couple of articles dedicated to animations start with Understanding basic animations in SwiftUI by Natascha Fadeeva;
  
  
• Then How to create Sound Wave Animation with TimelineView and Canvas in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese;
  
  
• Good tip on UIKit interoperability by Sarun W. – How to use SwiftUI as UIViewController in Storyboard;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on Charts in SwiftUI – Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Mark styling.;
  
  
• SwiftUI Toolbar Title Menus by Keith Harrison explains how to make navigation title interactive in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng guides on how to refresh widgets – How to Update or Refresh a Widget?;
  
  
• And the last piece for today – great reverse engineering article by Alin Panaitiu – Reverse engineering the MacBook clamshell mode.

That is it for today. Have a great weekend and come back next Friday for another pack of great reads!

Weekend is already here. And it will be a long weekend in US, so buckle up and get ready for a long list of truly good reads.

• David Smith keeps his Design Notes Diary cycle – DND 13: Checking the Weather, DND 14: Building an Accessible Chart, DND 15: Ruthlessly Limiting Scope, and comes with another article which might be interesting for indie developers – The Tyranny of the Churn Equation;
  
  
• Great take on AsyncStream by Donny Wals – Understanding Swift Concurrency’s AsyncStream;
  
  
• We all use UserDefaults, Natascha Fadeeva shares good tips on improving its experience – How to store a Swift struct in UserDefaults;
  
  
• Point-Free Pointers share their new dependency management library – A new library to control dependencies and avoid letting them control you (and a review of it by Alejandro Martinez – On the new Point-Free swift-dependencies library);
  
  
• Renaming Toolbar Navigation Title by Keith Harrison helps implementing new UI element – renaming current document from navigation bar;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan shares his thoughts on role of small things in overall user experience – Just a Little Nicer;
  
  
• Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Basics. by Majid Jabrayilov explores Charts library in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese shares great tips of interoperability between UIKit and SwiftUI – 5 Techniques to Effortlessly Send Data from UIKit to SwiftUI;
  
  
• Text modifiers in SwiftUI by Natalia Panferova guides through usage of modifiers for Text SwiftUI element;
  
  
• Emanuele Agosta describes good approach on prototyping process – Creating App Prototypes from Low to High-Fidelity;
  
  
• Enhance your Map experience with annotations by Elina Semenko covers MapKit usage including important topic on clustering.

And finishing up with one video on Swift memory ownership model:

And that is a wrap. Have a great weekend, have some rest, read some good news and come back next Friday for another pack of good articles!

2023 is here! And it's time for next edition of good reads. There is a bunch of interesting articles this time.

• Let's start with article by Peter Friese on SwiftUI previews – Previewing Stateful SwiftUI Views;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee shares his approach on being better engineer – Engineering goals: How to become a more successful developer;
  
  
• If you plan to find new job – Preparing for a technical iOS job interview with questions and answers by Natascha Fadeeva might help you get prepared;
  
  
• How to Support Multiple Widgets When Using WidgetKit? by Lee Kah Seng continues topic of WidgetKit exploration;
  
  
• Working with keyboard in SwiftUI sometimes needs some tricks – How to disable custom keyboards in iOS SwiftUI-based applications by Marco Eidinger covers that;
  
  
• Magnus Jensen made a good guide on raw strings in Swift – Overview: Raw Strings;
  
  
• What’s New With PhotosPicker in iOS 16 by Felipe Laso-Marsetti guides through ways of accessing photos by your app;
  
  
• Great tutorial on long tap gestures by Leonardo Maia Pugliese – Mastering Long Press Gestures in SwiftUI: A Mini-Game Tutorial;
  
  
• Alejandro Martinez explains cooperative pool in Swift's structured concurrency model – Limit Swift Concurrency's cooperative pool;
  
  
• UIKit and SwiftUI interoperability is covered by Sarun W. – Using SwiftUI in UIKit as UIViewController.

And finishing up with conference talk – "TBC" by Marcin Krzyzanowski.

And this is how we start New Year. Come back next week for more great reads!

It's almost 2023. This good reads list come a little early, so you'll have time to celebrate New Year :)

• ChatGPT makes another appearance in our good reads – Static vs Dynamic Frameworks on iOS — a discussion with ChatGPT by Trevor Elkins and Max Topolsky;
  
  
• Improving your publication automation scripts – Authorizing App Store Connect API requests by Natascha Fadeeva;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov shares his review of 2022 – iOS development trends in review;
  
  
• Enum explained in-depth with code examples in Swift by Antoine van der Lee covers multiple enum use cases in Swift;
  
  
• RevenueCat shares upcoming updates for App Store receipt validation – App Store receipt signing certificate changes in 2023;
  
  
• Another great hint on accessibility in SwiftUI by Natalia Panferova – Image accessibility labels from Localizable.strings files;
  
  
• And an interesting article on macOS Gatekeeper – Gatekeeper’s Achilles heel: Unearthing a macOS vulnerability by Jonathan Bar Or.

We'd like to finish this issue with our Holiday Special podcast episode.

Happy New Year!

It's Christmas weekend, and to give you time to celebrate, we've made slightly smaller list of articles. But those are really good.

• Peter Tretyakov is back with Code Signing Hell with XCFramework (by the way, he hinted that ChatGPT actually helped him to improve readability of the article);
  
  
• David Smith continues his design notes diary – DND 11: Better Dynamic Type Designs and DND 12: Sparkle Magic;
  
  
• How to Create an iOS Lock Screen Widget? by Lee Kah Seng explores use of WidgetKit for Lock Screen widgets;
  
  
• Moritz Philip Recke provides a guide on DocC usage on GitHub Pages – Configuring the Hosting Base Path in Xcode to Publish DocC Documentation on GitHub Pages;
  
  
• How to perform a lightweight migration in Core Data by Natascha Fadeeva guides through simple but important process working with Core Data;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explains new concurrency usage in SwiftUI – Efficiently Managing Multiple Async Tasks in SwiftUI.

And that is it for today. Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

It is last weekend before Christmas, so we have a bit more time to read something interesting.

• Starting with good article on Apple Pencil features in Apple Developer blog – Spotlight on: Apple Pencil hover;
  
  
• Good take by Natascha Fadeeva on code signing in iOS – Developer guide on iOS code signing & provisioning (yes, we still need to understand that properly);
  
  
• Couple more design notes by David Smith – Design Notes Diary #7, Design Notes Diary #8 and Design Notes Diary #9;
  
  
• Jesse Squires writes on issues with iOS Simulator – Workaround: simctrl status_bar broken for iOS 16 simulators;
  
  
• Quick reminder on how to make enum's easier to read by Marco Eidinger – Swift Enum With Labeled Associated Values;
  
  
• And another guide on stride function – Swift Stride Quick Guide by Keith Harrison;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains OptionSet – OptionSet in Swift explained with code examples;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov keeps his series on SwiftUI layouts – Building custom layout in SwiftUI. LayoutValueKey.;
  
  
• Creating a HomeKit-enabled App with SwiftUI by Moritz Philip Recke guides us through smart home app development process;
  
  
• Ole Begemann creates great example app to demonstrate SwiftUI view lifecycle – Understanding SwiftUI view lifecycles;
  
  
• Dynamically Change App Icons for a Unique User Experience with SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese explains the process of changing app icon in iOS;
  
  
• Couple of Swift articles by Sarun W. – What is the difference between #available and @available and How to make Swift Enum conforms to Identifiable protocol.

And returning with video section! Great talk on JavaScriptCore usage – Make your app securely extensive with JavaScriptCore.

And that is for today! Have a great weekend!

We're almost at the end of the year, so each weekend will have more and more interesting topics to go through.

• Another design notes by David Smith – Design Notes Diary #5 and Design Notes Diary #6;
  
  
• Moritz Philip Recke uses ChatGPT to make app prototype – Prototyping SwiftUI interfaces with OpenAI's ChatGPT;
  
  
• And another article by Moritz Philip Recke on how to test CarPlay features – Testing Apps with an iPhone and the CarPlay Simulator;
  
  
• Dave DeLong has an interesting story on bugs in standard library – Adventures in Advent of Code;
  
  
• Guide to Unit Testing with Async/Await in Swift by Leonardo Maia Pugliese covers unit testing with structured concurrency;
  
  
• Josh Berlin provides guide on Xcode CI/CD – Getting Started with Xcode Cloud;
  
  
• Introducing the EnvironmentBacked property wrapper by Magnus Jensen provides good simple design pattern implementation for SwiftUI;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on SwiftUI layout implementation – Building custom layout in SwiftUI. Spacing.;
  
  
• How to bridge completions handlers to Swift's async/await by Natascha Fadeeva provides a guide on how to merge two worlds or legacy and structured concurrency in Swift;
  
  
• Data formatters are really great in Swift, How to use FormatStyle to restrict TextField input in SwiftUI by Antoine van der Lee explains how to use those with SwiftUI;
  
  
• Getting Started With WidgetKit by Lee Kah Seng is great guide on how to start making widgets for your apps;
  
  
• Sarun W. recaps role aspect of buttons in SwiftUI – What is Button Role in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Marin Todorov shares two articles on his findings during dataTile development – Custom SwiftUI view modifier for paid app features and Automation tooling using MarkCodable for reports.

And that is it for this week, see you next Friday!

It is officially winter and here is new great pack of good articles for all Apple developers.

• Interesting observation by Christian Tietze on mutating functions that do not actually mutate the structure – Mutating Struct and State Observers: How the Latter Will Be Notified Even for 'No-Ops';
  
  
• Good deep dive into SwiftUI performance – SwiftUI is convenient, but slow by Alin Panaitiu;
  
  
• Series of articles on app design by David Smith – Design Notes Diary #1, Design Notes Diary #2, Design Notes Diary #3 and Design Notes Diary #4;
  
  
• Animated Background in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is a great example of how to use animations to make apps more appealing;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series of articles on SwiftUI layout system – Building custom layout in SwiftUI. Caching.;
  
  
• Provide custom size for UIViews wrapped in UIViewRepresentable by Natalia Panferova helps improving usage of UIKit views in SwiftUI environment;
  
  
• Ole Begemann shares one caveat on view clipping in SwiftUI – clipped() doesn’t affect hit testing;
  
  
• Great tutorial on Shortcuts in iOS by Jordan Morgan – Create a Basic Shortcut using App Intents;
  
  
• Sheets in SwiftUI explained with code examples by Antoine van der Lee gives examples of sheet view presentations in SwiftUI;
  
  
• If you want to build your own build automation scripts, Developer guide on the App Store Connect API by Natascha Fadeeva will be a good start;
  
  
• CloudKit Console Act As iCloud Account by Keith Harrison provides hints on how to work with CloudKit data using specific account in CloudKit Console;
  
  
• Couple of interesting reads by Sarun W. – How to fix "The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time" error and What is Swift If Case.

Have a great first winter weekend and see you soon!

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!

Issue 51 of good reads. And this one has a lot of interesting stuff.

• Let's start with Swift – team shares their vision for 2023 – Swift project in 2023;
  
  
• And since we're talking Swift here – A vision for variadic generics in Swift by Holly Borla will navigate you on future Swift language feature;
  
  
• John Sundell is back with new post on Swift type system details – Combining opaque return types with primary associated types;
  
  
• Dates are hard, especially in JSON – Understanding date decoding strategies when working with JSON in Swift by Natascha Fadeeva proves that;
  
  
• SwiftUI Labeled Content by Keith Harrison covers new views in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Krzysztof Zabłocki shares his tips on debugging – Debugging Tips;
  
  
• Dissect the PKCE Authorization Code Grant Flow on iOS by Alessandro Di Nepi explains authorization flows implementation;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov works with new layout techniques in SwiftUI – Building custom layout in SwiftUI. Basics.;
  
  
• Providing a default value for a SwiftUI Binding by Donny Wals shows that bindings are just structures with some code;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee provides guide on binary targets in SwiftPM – Binary Targets in Swift Package Manager;
  
  
• A Guided Tour for SwiftUI ForEach Structure by Leonardo Maia Pugliese provides good review on how ForEach works in SwiftUI;
  
  
• And couple of articles by Sarun W. that help to solve typical tasks in SwiftUI apps – How to make equal height subviews in HStack, SwiftUI Button: Basic usage and Multiple rows Selection in SwiftUI List.

With that let's conclude this week. See you next time!