Tag: SwiftPM

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!

Great weekend for another big pack of great articles to go through.

• Jamf Threat Labs share interesting article on making user believe that iPhone is on Airplane mode while it's not – Fake Airplane Mode: A mobile tampering technique to maintain connectivity;
  
  
• How NSHostingView determines its sizing by Brian Webster explorers sizing in SwiftUI and AppKit;
  
  
• Geor Kasapidi explains SwiftPM usage for data protection – Crafting a Swift Package Plugin for App Data Protection;
  
  
• Attempting to connect a tvOS app to an iOS app with DeviceDiscoveryUI by Ben Dodson explores cross-device communication options for Apple TV;
  
  
• Jon Reid has two articles on unit testing – iOS Unit Testing Champion: What Are My Roots, My Focus, My Passion? and Simplify Your iOS Test Writing: Introducing a Streamlined File Template;
  
  
• Continuing with Async XCTest Assertion Helpers by Christian Tietze on XCTest helpers;
  
  
• Dan Torres provides options on using tests to look for memory leaks – How to Automate Memory Leak Detection in Your Swift Code with XCTest;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explores adaptive views in SwiftUI – Adaptative Views That Fit Anywhere in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Keith Harrison goes through SwiftData tasks – SwiftData Background Tasks;
  
  
• Making your SwiftData models Codable by Donny Wals covers important aspect of SwiftData code generation;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva goes through Kotlin features – Introduction to Kotlin for Swift developers - variables, functions & control flow;
  
  
• Christian Tietze also shares an approach on making app extensible with Java Script – Making Your App Extensible with JavaScriptCore: Annotated Presentation with Full Transcript;
  
  
• Build performance analysis for speeding up Xcode builds by Antoine van der Lee goes through build performance optimizations;
  
  
• Great collection of SwiftUI tips and tricks – SwiftUI Cookbook by Kodeco team;
  
  
• iOS app setup for remote push notifications by Natalia Panferova gets you ready to support push notifications in your app;
  
  
• Swift URL absoluteString versus path by Jesse Squires reminds on URL and file paths in Apple platforms;
  
  
• Peter Tretyakov goes on Metal code optimization – Optimizing Metal: Stitch several Metal functions into a single shader using MTLFunctionStitchingGraph;
  
  
• Michael Tsai covers Core Data configuration – Turning Off Core Data Persistent History Tracking;
  
  
• And couple of guides by AppleInsider – Getting started with WidgetKit: Making your first macOS Widget and Understanding MetalKit: Getting started with Apple's graphics framework.

And one video on SwiftData:

That's a lot. Weekend will be packed.

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.

July is approaching (and we hope to see news on Developer Labs and Developer Kits for Apple Vision Pro), but so far, here is a fresh list of great articles to read over the weekend.

• Natascha Fadeeva goes through String Catalog feature in Xcode 15 – How to use String Catalogs for localization in Swift;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan goes one SwiftUI modifier at the time – Modifier Monday: .containerRelativeFrame(_ axes:);
  
  
• Generate RESTful APIs with Swift in 2023 by Marco Eidinger is covering OpenAPI code generation package;
  
  
• Keith Harrison continues his series of WWDC23 lab notes with Core Data – WWDC23 Core Data Lab Notes;
  
  
• Mastering ScrollView in SwiftUI. Scroll Position by Majid Jabrayilov covers new features in scroll views;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains usage of #Preview macro – #Preview SwiftUI Views using Macros;
  
  
• Daniel Jalkut reviews view clipping behavior changes in macOS Sonoma – View Clipping Changes in macOS 14 Sonoma;
  
  
• The One Swift 5.9 Feature to Start Using Now by Leonardo Maia Pugliese goes through couple of new Swift features for everybody to try;
  
  
• Scott Grosch explores new tool to send push notifications – Push Notifications Console: Apple’s Game-Changing New Tool ;
  
  
• For those using ETTrace Itay Brenner & Noah Martin cover migration process from CocoaPods to SwiftPM – Moving ETTrace from CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager;
  
  
• Sarun W. covers symbol animations – Built-in symbol animations in UIKit controls.

And that is it for this weekend. Have some rest, stay hydrated (especially, if you're in the areas with heat waves) and come back for next portion of great reads next week!

We're all still processing the WWDC announcements, watching sessions, reading reviews. And here is another pack of good reads.

• Let's start with some fundamental reads – June 2023: What's new in the Swift Community? by Tiago Gomes Pereira goes through important announcements;
  
  
• WWDC 2023 Viewing Guide by Keith Harrison navigates through session structured in sections;
  
  
• Paul Hudson goes through SwiftUI updates in iOS 17 – What’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 17;
  
  
• A Developer's View of Vision Pro by David Smith provides a independent developer's point of view on new Apple device;
  
  
• SwiftData is covered by Josh Steele in SwiftData: Simplifying Persistence in iOS Apps;
  
  
• Charlie Chapman covers monetization news in WWDC 2023 highlights: What’s in store for subscription apps;
  
  
• Xcode productivity tip – See all parameter permutations in code completion in Xcode 15 by Natalia Panferova;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva covers Natural Language Processing framework usage – How to find synonyms with the Natural Language framework for iOS;
  
  
• This one is actually video, but an interesting one – how to bring mixins to Swift with macros – Unlocking Mixins with Swift 5.9 Macros by Alejandro Martinez;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng coves new controller to show "empty" screen – How to Handle Empty States Using UIContentUnavailableConfiguration;
  
  
• Christian Tietze mixes Swift Package Manager with Objective-C – Swift Package Import in Objective-C Might Just Work;
  
  
• Swift Result Builders: Getting Started by Andrew Tetlaw explains use of Result Builders in Swift;
  
  
• New scroll view transitions are explained in Mastering ScrollView in SwiftUI. Transitions by Majid Jabrayilov;
  
  
• Interpolate text with custom foreground style in SwiftUI by Natalia Panferova covers foreground styles added in iOS 17;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee goes through Swift macros – Swift Macros: Extend Swift with New Kinds of Expressions;
  
  
• Everything publishers need to know about app store fees, guidelines, and compliance by Peter Meinertzhagen focuses on App Store monetization questions.

That is a lot. Choose wisely. And.. #ICYMI Apple Treats team reviewed WWDC23. This was really fun episode and we went through important developer announcements and talked about spatial computing too.