Tag: Unit testing

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).

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.

One week closer to WWDC (we're even considering taking a break for good reads on WWDC week). But we still have more than a month for weekends filled with great articles.

• Let's start with nice recap on Swift 5.8 by Sarun W. – What's New in Swift 5.8;
  
  
• And also another one for those who has to use Rosetta during development – How to Open using Rosetta in Xcode 14.3;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva guides on QR code scanning with VisionKit – How to scan QR codes with VisionKit for iOS;
  
  
• Homage to Objective-C approach to Bool type – Converting A Swift String To A Bool by Keith Harrison;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov covers Canvas drawing in SwiftUI – Mastering Canvas in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Auto-updating macOS apps without App Store via Sparkle is explained in Sparkle by Sarah Reichelt;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng deals with sensitive information in widgets – How to Create Custom Redacted Effects on Widgets?;
  
  
• Unit testing async/await Swift code by Antoine van der Lee covers important aspects of unit testing in structured concurrency world;
  
  
• Coincidentally Donny Wals provides good review on Tasks in Swift – Understanding unstructured and detached tasks in Swift;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese covers one of the important aspects of maintainable code – Cyclomatic Complexity in Swift: Understanding How it Affect Your Code Quality;
  
  
• Okay, Copilot is now works in Xcode – Christian Tietze proves in in Copilot for Xcode Works Okay.

And finishing with great book available for free – Make Something Wonderful – Steve Jobs in his own words (also available in Apple Books). Book provides new perspective to Steve Jobs and is very inspirational.

See you next week!

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!

Another weekend is coming with big pack of interesting articles for developers.

• Great article by Elina Semenko Evaluating math expressions with Swift – part 1 and part 2;
  
  
• Couple of good guides from Sarun W. – How to Get Push Notification while iOS App is in Foreground, Should we manually call @StateObject initializer and good list of fonts – Best Free Fonts for iOS;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov explains Window management in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Adjust SwiftUI controls for the Button Shapes accessibility setting by Natalia Panferova provides more info on making apps more accessible;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva provides great guide on caching approaches – Understanding different cache policies when working with URLRequest in Swift;
  
  
• Apple Wallet: supported barcode types and workarounds by Marco Eidinger provides deep dive into Wallet cards and barcodes on those;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains how to start doing unit testing – Getting started with Unit Tests in Swift;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan provides good way of running code once for a view – Running Code Only Once in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Animated Launch Screen in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese could make your app slightly more magical to users.

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

It is time for another pack of great articles to read over the weekend.

• Mahdi Bahrami writes great article on practical use of Swift on Server – Advanced PostgreSQL with Vapor;
  
  
• SwiftUI Button Tutorial: Customization by Andy Pereira explores SwiftUI button customizations;
  
  
• Jesse Squires publishes article covering code sharing approaches – Sharing cross-platform code in SwiftUI apps;
  
  
• Handling Cell Interactions When Using UIHostingConfiguration in iOS 16 by Lee Kah Seng covers simple approaches on mixing UIKit and SwiftUI code in cell views;
  
  
• Keith Harrison's Unit Test Setup And Teardown explains XCTest's lifecycle methods;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva provides good overview on mixing async/await code with Combine in How to bridge async/await functions to Combine's Future type in Swift;
  
  
• And a great take by Sarun W. on SwiftUI gauge view – SwiftUI Gauge.

And that is it for this time. See you next week!

Let's spend first July weekend with some good reads.

• SwiftUI new addition – renderers are covered in SwiftUI Renderers and Their Tricks by javier;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov covers power of task modifier in The power of task view modifier in SwiftUI;
  
  
• How to change status bar color in SwiftUI by Sarun W. provides an overview of new and old view modifiers affecting status bar;
  
  
• Another take on Swift existential types Existential any in Swift explained with code examples by Antoine van der Lee;
  
  
• macOS system extension development is now much easier thanks to ExtensionKit, here is an example by Guilherme Rambo – Creating custom extension points for Mac apps with ExtensionKit;
  
  
• Introducing XCTUnimplemented by Point-Free Pointers intends to simplify unit testing for production apps;
  
  
• Easily access system folders in iOS 16 – Get URLs for system folders in iOS 16 by Natalia Panferova got you covered;
  
  
• Couple of good articles on formatting by Brett Ohland – FormatSyle Deep Dive, What’s new with FormatStyles in iOS 16, From Strings to Data using ParsableFormatStyle and Formatting your own types.

And that's a wrap for today. See you next week with more interesting articles!

Hopefully you've made it through WWDC session short list. Let's add some reading. Apple brought up many interesting topics.

• We'll cheat a bit – SwiftUI Changes at WWDC 2022 by Michael Tsai contains multiple great articles on SwiftUI;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov shares two interesting articles on SwiftUI: What is new in SwiftUI after WWDC22 and Mastering NavigationStack in SwiftUI. Navigator Pattern. – both are must-reads for SwiftUI developers;
  
  
• Marco Falanga continues the SwiftUI topic with Using ViewThatFits to replace GeometryReader in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Introduction to Dependency Injection with Needle - The Uber Way by Leonardo Maia Pugliese dives into DI in iOS applications;
  
  
• And his Two Ways to Unit Test Notification Center in Swift is focused on testing which usually tend to forget;
  
  
• John Sundell shares updates based on WWDC22 content – Rendering SwiftUI views within UITableView or UICollectionView cells on iOS 16 and Using the ‘some’ and ‘any’ keywords to reference generic protocols in Swift 5.7 – both are equally interesting;
  
  
• Another updated on SwiftUI navigation – Using NavigationLink programmatically based on binding in SwiftUI by Antoine van der Leel;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan reminds us that it is not just SwiftUI – iOS 16: Notable UIKit Additions;
  
  
• Great work going through digital lounges by Javier – WWDC 2022: Lessons from the SwiftUI Digital Lounges;
  
  
• Donny Walls covers couple of interesting Swift 5.7 updates – What’s the difference between any and some in Swift 5.7? and What are primary associated types in Swift 5.7?

And that's it for today. There might be more articles shared next week, be ready!