Tag: Simulator

Lucky episode of good reads today! And we've got a lot to cover on last day of March.

• Marcel Voss explains how to deal with new Swift features conditionally – Enabling Upcoming Swift Language Features;
  
  
• And good tip on source code checks for Swift features – SDK conditional code with canImport(module, _version: "1.2.3.4") by Marco Eidinger;
  
  
• How the relative size modifier interacts with stack views by Ole Begemann continues topic of complex layouts in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Keith Harrison explains sort options on SwiftUI tables – Custom Sort Comparators;
  
  
• How to change JSON keys by using Swift's CodingKey protocol by Natascha Fadeeva is covering Codable customizations;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov goes into details on new approaches of sharing content in SwiftUI – Sharing content in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Morphology in Swift by Jordan Morgan goes deep into Swift number localization techniques;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng continues his series on Widgets – How to Hide Sensitive Widget Data When Device Is Locked?;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains location debugging practices in simulator – Location Simulation in Xcode’s Simulator;
  
  
• How to fix "You are not authorized to make purchases of this InApp in Sandbox at this time" error by Sarun W. helps to fix development issues with in-app purchases;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese provides extensive guide on persistence solutions for iOS apps – SQLite vs Core Data in iOS Development: Which One Should You Choose?

We're finishing with video by David Smith on design.

With this – have a great weekend and see you in April!

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!

Craig Hockenberry posted about open-source utility that simplified some of the typical debugging techniques with Simulator.

You could easily find your app's bundle, documents directory, group containers or preferences. This significantly reduces a need in printing those through debug console.

IconFactory: SimBuddy (zip)

GitHub: SimBuddy (source code)

furbo.org: SimBuddy – Your Simulator’s BFF

Marin Todorov announces public beta of iOS Simulator second screen app called dataTile.

This app provides small additional screen which shows any log events from the app which developer considers relevant. App uses logs produced by Apple logging system, so if your app already uses those, no changes are needed in the app to support dataTile.

App is a good example of macOS SwiftUI app. It requires macOS Ventura though.

Beta sign up: dataTile

Reference: dataTile for Simulator - public beta on TestFlight now!

Welcome to Weekend Good Reads for Apple developers, eighth episode. There is so much to share this week.

But first things first. As you know, Swift team now allows backporting of Swift Concurrency features to previous releases. So, we'll need to recap.

• John Sundell has a collection of articles on concurrency, and newest addition is Making async system APIs backward compatible which will make your code even more backward compatible;
  
  
• Two articles on Core Data – Dynamic Core Data with SwiftUI Tutorial for iOS by Mark Struzinski and Set Up Core Spotlight with Core Data: Getting Started by Warren Burton;
  
  
• More on SwiftUI environment – How to define custom SwiftUI environment values by Federico Zanetello;
  
  
• SwiftUI topic is continued by Majid Jabrayilov in Blur effect and materials in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Tiago Gomes Pereira publishes article Identifying the Language in a Text using the Natural Language Framework;
  
  
• Deleting your app from the iOS simulator during UI tests by Jesse Squires will help you make better tests;
  
  
• Good article on module stability – Enabling Module Stability in Swift Package Manager Projects by Bruno Rocha.

Have a nice weekend! And be ready for Swift Structured Concurrency!