Tag: Unit testing

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!