Tag: UIKit

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!

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 :)

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!

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.

WWDC23 edition of weekend good reads is here. Surely, there are still sessions you want to watch or re-watch, but there are already great articles that go well with WWDC content.

• Paul Hudson gives great overview of Swift 5.9 features – What’s new in Swift 5.9?;
  
  
• Article by Majid Jabrayilov continues on new features but for SwiftUI – What is new in SwiftUI after WWDC 23;
  
  
• Marco Eidinger highlights all new frameworks announced – All new frameworks presented at WWDC23;
  
  
• New SwiftUI Support for MapKit in Xcode 15 by Audrey Tam explains MapKit usage in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Natalia Panferova shares several great articles: pattern matching guide – Swift enum pattern matching with extra conditions, new inspector views in SwiftUI – Inspectors in SwiftUI, new static properties for color and images – Access colors and images from asset catalog via static properties in Xcode 15, grouping controls in context menus – ControlGroup in context menus in SwiftUI, keyboard usage in iPadOS – Keyboard driven navigation with focusable() on iPad in SwiftUI, and great hint on Binding usage – How to map a SwiftUI state to a binding of a different type;
  
  
• Christian Tietze explores more uses of pattern matching – Swift Pattern Matching with Extra Conditions, and the Value of Syntax Summaries, SwiftUI introspection practices – How to Inspect SwiftUI.TextField.onSubmit and Figure Out You Can't Programmatically Use It, and highlights one issue that developers could encounter – SwiftUI.List with Menu with Plain Button Style Breaks Event Loop;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng provides great performance debugging tips – 5 Simple Steps to Find Slow Code Using Xcode Time Profiler;
  
  
• Sarun W. goes through couple of WWDC announced features – What's new in SF Symbols 5, How to preview UIViewController in Xcode Previews, How to preview UIView in Xcode Previews, Xcode Previews with UIKit and AppKit in Xcode 15;
  
  
• ContentUnavailableView: Handling Empty States in SwiftUI by Antoine van der Lee explains uses of new dedicated view when no content is available;
  
  
• Great article on App Store rejections by Charlie Chapman – The ultimate guide to App Store rejections;
  
  
• And finishing with great review of Vision Pro by John Gruber – ★ First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS.

And... Apple Treats team reviews WWDC23 announcements in next episode – Spatial Computing! on June 14, 2023 at 9:00am PDT. Join us with your thoughts and impressions! See you on the live stream and come back next week for more great articles!

We're almost there for WWDC23. Just a little bit over a week. And we've got good collection of articles for this long weekend.

• Amazing guide on push notifications by Natascha Fadeeva – Developer guide on push notifications for iOS;
  
  
• Natalia Panferova also explains to test remote push notifications with Simulator – Testing remote push notifications on iOS simulator in Xcode 14;
  
  
• And one more her article is about Layout protocol in SwiftUI – Using Layout protocol to align explicitly positioned views in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Back deploy Swift Function by Sarun W. explains how swift functions could be back deployed to previous iOS versions;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee shares his hints on how to get featured on App Store – 10 Tips to Get Your App Featured on the App Store;
  
  
• Handling WebP Images When Using PHPickerViewController by Lee Kah Seng might be useful for those who work with different image formats;
  
  
• Stefan Kieleithner provides a guide on making stylable UI components in UIKit – Customizable UI Components on iOS Using UIKit;
  
  
• Swift Concurrency Continuations: Getting Started by Alessandro Di Nepi gives great advises on mixing legacy and new concurrency models in Swift;
  
  
• Jacob Eiting gives an overview of effective communications – How we communicate at RevenueCat.

And while you're still here, we'd like to invite you to our pre-WWDC Apple Treats episode – join us live on May 30 at 9:00am PDT. See you there! :)

Sun is back here in Bay Area, weekend is probably going to be quite hot. And we've a lot to read – even couple of not-so-technical articles. Let's dive in.

• How to implement a UIViewController delegate when working with SwiftUI by Natascha Fadeeva covers Coordinator use in SwiftUI UIViewControllerRepresentable;
  
  
• Keith Harrison explains technical aspects of file access in Accessing Security Scoped Files;
  
  
• Christian Tietze shares a hint on how to open Safari on Mac regardless of default browser settings – Safari (for Mac) URL Scheme;
  
  
• How to Define Custom URL Actions for SwiftUI Text Views by Lee Kah Seng covers customization of URL opening handlers in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains Universal Links in iOS – Universal Links implementation on iOS;
  
  
• David Smith shares his design findings in Changing Corners and Designing a Step Goal Live Activity;
  
  
• Exploring Circular Paths: How to Create a Circular Text View in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese covers interesting use of Path with Text in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan provides a beginner's guide to SwiftPM – Creating a Swift Package: Quick Start Gotchas;
  
  
• How to use AttributedString in UIKit by Sarun W. helps to simplify use of attributed strings in SwiftUI and UIKit;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov explains how to easily export and import data via files in SwiftUI – File importing and exporting in SwiftUI;
  
  
• And finishing up with couple of general engineering articles: Dive into People-First Leadership: A Key to Successful Dev Teams, The Hidden Costs of Not Upskilling: Why Developer Training Matters and Going Indie: building a foundation, finding clients, and negotiating rates.

Hope you have time to read these great articles and we'll meet again next Friday!