Tag: Testing

Spring is officially here. And we've got a good pack of articles to go through for this weekend.

• Swift blog announces Benchmark package to simplify performance testing – Introducing the Benchmark Package: Complementing Unit Tests with Performance Checks;
  
  
• WebKit team shares two articles: Implementing Vertical Form Controls on localization and internationalization approaches and Introducing Natural Input for WebXR in Apple Vision Pro helping to adapt WebXR apps for Vision Pro;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva guides on dark mode support in SwiftUI – How to support dark mode in SwiftUI programmatically;
  
  
• SwiftUI Inverting A Boolean Binding by Keith Harrison is a nice hint on how to use Boolean bindings in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Two interesting pieces by Wade Tregaskis – Including Services in contextual menus in SwiftUI which helps in making SwiftUI app a better citizen on macOS and getBitmapDataPlanes can break NSImages & NSBitmapImageReps outlining image issue and possible workaround;
  
  
• Sending trial notifications with provisional authorization on iOS by Natalia Panferova is about simple way of sending unobtrusive notifications without explicit request to user;
  
  
• Pasquale Vittoriosi navigates through user interface choices that will help making app more accessible – Preparing your App for VoiceOver: Headers and Heading Level;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov explains task contexts in Swift cooperative concurrency model – Where Swift Concurrency will run your function?;
  
  
• Jacob Eiting will help you answer new App Store Connect question properly – Am I a trader? And other existential questions for developers;
  
  
• Swift Isolation Intuition by Matt Massicotte covers data isolation in Swift concurrency model;
  
  
• Tiago Gomes Pereira guides through widgets in SwiftUI apps – Adding a Widget to a SwiftUI app.

And that is it for today. Come back next week for more interesting topics!

Great pack of reads for this weekend.

• Keith Harrison talks about concurrency in Swift – SwiftUI Tasks Blocking the MainActor;
  
  
• How to build a draggable bottom sheet with a scroll view in SwiftUI by Natascha Fadeeva is a great guide on how to build typical UI element for mobile app;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov talks about global actors in Swift – Global actors in Swift;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains ideas of TDD in relations to Swift – Test-Driven Development (TDD) for bug fixes in Swift;
  
  
• Making a view accessible using the Accessibility Representation modifier by Pasquale Vittoriosi explains the process of making complex view more accessible;
  
  
• Wade Tregaskis shares two articles – Codable protocol hints – The privileges & challenges of being a primitive type for Codable in Swift and some investigation on linker errors in Xcode 15 – no platform load command found in ‘libxyz.a’, assuming: macOS;
  
  
• Using @_silgen_name to forward declare functions in Swift and improve build times by Bruno Rocha is about making your build process faster;
  
  
• Giusi Di Paola explains how to show 360 video in Vision Pro – Create an Immersive Experience with a 360-degree video in visionOS;
  
  
• The Power of Particle Emitters in Digital Creation by Domenico De Luca goes through use of particle emitters using various tools;
  
  
• Rauhul Varma publishes Byte-sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate – great guide on use of Swift Embedded.

And one video to watch... Apple Treats has new episode – now on Vision Pro.

And this is it for this weekend. Come back next Friday for more!

Yet another great installment of good reads for Apple developers. With quite a lot of really interesting articles.

• Anton Begehr shares hints on how to test schema migrations in SwiftData – Testing SwiftData Migrations;
  
  
• Getting started with Apollo iOS for GraphQL with Swift by Natascha Fadeeva goes through basics of GraphQL in iOS apps;
  
  
• Keith Harrison covers use of system unified logging support in Xcode – Xcode Console and Unified Logging;
  
  
• Wade Tregaskis explores controversial design choice in macOS – Proactive Peek & Reveal on Edge Hover and covers various ways of hiding views in SwiftUI – Hiding SwiftUI views;
  
  
• Discovering Swift Algorithms package by Majid Jabrayilov is dedicated to Swift package for collection algorithms;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee provides great guide on making your images respecting Dynamic Type scaling – How to use @ScaledMetric in SwiftUI for Dynamic Type support;
  
  
• Giovanni Monaco goes through window management in visionOS – Configuring default window and volume size in visionOS;
  
  
• Understanding Once and For All SwiftUI Alignment Guides by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is a comprehensive review of layout techniques in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Christian Tietze shares his impressions on web site created by Chris Eidhof and the team –  SwiftUI Field Guide;
  
  
• How to determine where tasks and async functions run in Swift? by Donny Wals helps to navigate developers on actual threads running async functions;
  
  
• Chip Loder guides through String Catalogs in Xcode – How to use Xcode String catalogs to localize your app;
  
  
• How to use Media Source Extensions with AirPlay by WebKit team provides hints on how to implement efficient media streaming on the web;
  
  
• Michael Tsai shares several interesting tips and tricks in Swift – Swift Tricks;
  
  
• If you play with Quartz in macOS, you might want to check your settings as per Wade Tregaskis – Secret Sonoma design lead: Barbie;
  
  
• Garrett Barker creates quick overview on new Observation framework – Understanding Observation in Swift: Simplifying SwiftUI Development.

And that's it for this week. See you next Friday with another great pack of interesting articles!

It's Friday and that means that we have some great reads for this weekend.

• Wade Tregaskis shares interesting article – SwiftUI drag & drop does not support file promises on SwiftUI implementation of drag and drop;
  
  
• Disabling Core Data CloudKit Logging by Keith Harrison is a great hint on clearing out your debug console;
  
  
• Mark Szymczyk shares guides on how to start macOS development with SwiftUI – How to Learn SwiftUI to Develop Mac Apps;
  
  
• Two interesting articles by Tiago Gomes Pereira – Extra Large Title text styles in visionOS on content sizing in visionOS and Create an animated transition with Matched Geometry Effect in SwiftUI on animations in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Donny Wals does great job comparing ObservableObject protocol with new @Observable macro – Comparing @Observable to ObservableObjects;
  
  
• What is @testable Annotation in Swift? by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is uncovering keyword simplifying test creation;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan goes through tricks with SwiftUI layout engine – Fun Alignment Guide Tricks;
  
  
• Emanuele Agosta goes through design considerations on visionOS user interface – Ensuring interface legibility and contrast in visionOS.

And while we're here... Our podcast Apple Treats is starting new season on February 15 at 10am PT. We'll talk on how to become better developer with some help from Apple.

See you on the podcast and then – next Friday for more good reads.

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).

Apple makes some changes to TestFlight service improving test team management. New interfaces will allow to quickly navigate through testers and check their engagement.

Client apps update to target inability to accept invitation codes.

Specifically, an issue preventing users from accepting an invitation to test a beta app via redemption code was resolved. Testers on iOS 17.1, iPadOS 17.1, or later will need to use this latest version of TestFlight in order to accept an invitation via redemption code.

Apple Developer

Apple Developer:

• TestFlight makes it even simpler to manage testers
• TestFlight 3.4.3
• App Store Connect API 3.1

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!

Well, Wonderlust event brought us new iPhones and Apple Watches. We've made our first pre-orders and now we could enjoy the weekend with some great articles to read.

• Stefan Kieleithner explores custom text elements with UITextInteraction protocol – Adopting UITextInteraction;
  
  
• How to present a local html file in SwiftUI by Natascha Fadeeva solves problem of showing predefined styled content to users;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese covers SwiftUI view lifecycle – SwiftUI Guide: Triggering Actions Solely on First View Appearance;
  
  
• Keith Harrison helps you to prepare for Swift 6 with Strict Concurrency Checking in Swift Packages;
  
  
• Mark Szymczyk provides a guide to add help menu for your SwiftUI app – Adding a Help Menu to a SwiftUI App;
  
  
• If and switch expressions in Swift by Antoine van der Lee uncovers recent Swift syntax changes;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng guides us through adapting your widgets for Standby mode – Understanding Container Background for Widget in iOS 17;
  
  
• Working With UIViewRepresentable by Chris Eidhof helps improving UIKit and SwiftUI cooperation;
  
  
• Point-Free Pointers blog post helps with testing approaches – Inline Snapshot Testing;
  
  
• Christian Tietze reminds on UserDefaults default value registration – UserDefaults.register(defaults:) Is a Bit Like Nil-Coalescing;
  
  
• Generated Asset Catalog Symbols in Objective-C by Jordan Morgan goes through Objective-C support for Asset Catalogs;
  
  
• SwiftDataKit: Unleashing Advanced Core Data Features in SwiftData by 东坡肘子 goes through feature parity between Core Data and SwiftData.

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

Next week we'll see how new iPhone is better than previous one, so, we have weekend to read about development topics.

• Jordan Morgan talks data management in SwiftUI – Vending Non-Mutating Data in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Get started with StoreKit Testing in Xcode by Natascha Fadeeva explains testing approaches for in-app purchases;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explores new #Preview macro – Exploring the new Preview Macro with SwiftUI and UIKit;
  
  
• And, speaking of macros, Antoine van der Lee goes on #Predicate – Predicate Macro in Swift for filtering and searching;
  
  
• Haptic feedback gets its first-class API support in SwiftUI, Keith Harrison explains those in SwiftUI Sensory Feedback;
  
  
• Marco Eidinger explains how existing API applies for Optic ID in Vision Pro – Develop and test OpticID for Vision Pro;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov starts new topic – thread safety in Swift – Thread safety in Swift with locks;
  
  
• Symbolicating SwiftUI (and any Apple Framework) by Itay Brenner will go through debugging techniques for builds in App Store and TestFlight;
  
  
• Christian Tietze goes into details with arrays and other collections – The Missing Array.appending(contentsOf:);
  
  
• Michael Tsai shares personal experience debugging universal links – Debugging Universal Links;
  
  
• Brian T. Kelley has great series on Objective-C – Objective-C Internals;
  
  
• App Intents for Widgets by Alex Logan goes through new approach configuring widgets.

And that is it for today. See you after the event (and, after our next podcast episode).