Tag: Widgets

It's already February... Well, we still have couple of interesting reads for you.

• Setup a 3D Chessboard With SwiftUI and RealityKit by Mark Lucking – nice intro into AR apps in modern era;
  
  
• Andrew Barba shares guide on Vercel, new solution allowing deployment of server-side Swift apps – Deploy server side Swift applications on Vercel;
  
  
• How to import Objective-C types as optionals or non-optionals into Swift by Natascha Fadeeva reminds developers on how to improve interoperability between Swift and Objective-C;
  
  
• Automatically run Swift code when your framework gets initialized by Marco Eidinger also finds good use of Objective-C in modern projects;
  
  
• John Sundell explains how to use scrollable views in SwiftUI – Observing the content offset of a SwiftUI ScrollView;
  
  
• Kasper Lahti covers styling in SwiftUI – Styling Components in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Xcode Simulator Directories Exploration by Antoine van der Lee is a great guide on iOS Simulator directory structure;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng provides hints on keeping widgets up to date – How to Fetch and Show Remote Data on a Widget?;
  
  
• Mastering Error Handling in SwiftUI: A Guide to Presenting Errors by Leonardo Maia Pugliese guides developers on ways to respond to errors in SwiftUI application;
  
  
• Did you ever wanted to print incoming JSON in nice formatted way – Jordan Morgan got you covered in Converting Data into a Formatted JSON Swift String;
  
  
• David Smith continues his design notes diary series – Reasons for a Staycation Greycation and DND 21: Byte Compression for Watch Connectivity;
  
  
• Peter Meinertzhagen provides great hints on monetization – What’s the Best Way to Monetize Kids Apps?;
  
  
• We all get and give feedbacks, good article on how to make those better – How to Write Impactful Peer Feedback by Michael Katz.

And, in case you missed it – couple of books are available for free, maybe you'll find something useful there. See you next week!

Tough week for IT engineers, but let's try to spend weekend improving our technical skills. There are many articles to go through today, so choose wisely.

• David Smith continues his design-related series: DND 16: Building Custom Controls and DND 17: Kind, Friendly Designs;
  
  
• You can make files of your app visible in system Files app – Make your app's files user-visible on the iPhone by Marco Eidinger covers exactly this topic;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains working with task groups in Swift – Task Groups in Swift explained with code examples;
  
  
• The Difference between Entity and Value Object, and How They Relate to Swift's Identifiable and Equatable Protocols by Christian Tietze explains value and reference types and their differences;
  
  
• Point-Free Pointers share their view on SwiftUI development – Modern SwiftUI;
  
  
• Couple of articles dedicated to animations start with Understanding basic animations in SwiftUI by Natascha Fadeeva;
  
  
• Then How to create Sound Wave Animation with TimelineView and Canvas in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese;
  
  
• Good tip on UIKit interoperability by Sarun W. – How to use SwiftUI as UIViewController in Storyboard;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on Charts in SwiftUI – Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Mark styling.;
  
  
• SwiftUI Toolbar Title Menus by Keith Harrison explains how to make navigation title interactive in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng guides on how to refresh widgets – How to Update or Refresh a Widget?;
  
  
• And the last piece for today – great reverse engineering article by Alin Panaitiu – Reverse engineering the MacBook clamshell mode.

That is it for today. Have a great weekend and come back next Friday for another pack of great reads!

2023 is here! And it's time for next edition of good reads. There is a bunch of interesting articles this time.

• Let's start with article by Peter Friese on SwiftUI previews – Previewing Stateful SwiftUI Views;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee shares his approach on being better engineer – Engineering goals: How to become a more successful developer;
  
  
• If you plan to find new job – Preparing for a technical iOS job interview with questions and answers by Natascha Fadeeva might help you get prepared;
  
  
• How to Support Multiple Widgets When Using WidgetKit? by Lee Kah Seng continues topic of WidgetKit exploration;
  
  
• Working with keyboard in SwiftUI sometimes needs some tricks – How to disable custom keyboards in iOS SwiftUI-based applications by Marco Eidinger covers that;
  
  
• Magnus Jensen made a good guide on raw strings in Swift – Overview: Raw Strings;
  
  
• What’s New With PhotosPicker in iOS 16 by Felipe Laso-Marsetti guides through ways of accessing photos by your app;
  
  
• Great tutorial on long tap gestures by Leonardo Maia Pugliese – Mastering Long Press Gestures in SwiftUI: A Mini-Game Tutorial;
  
  
• Alejandro Martinez explains cooperative pool in Swift's structured concurrency model – Limit Swift Concurrency's cooperative pool;
  
  
• UIKit and SwiftUI interoperability is covered by Sarun W. – Using SwiftUI in UIKit as UIViewController.

And finishing up with conference talk – "TBC" by Marcin Krzyzanowski.

And this is how we start New Year. Come back next week for more great reads!

It's Christmas weekend, and to give you time to celebrate, we've made slightly smaller list of articles. But those are really good.

• Peter Tretyakov is back with Code Signing Hell with XCFramework (by the way, he hinted that ChatGPT actually helped him to improve readability of the article);
  
  
• David Smith continues his design notes diary – DND 11: Better Dynamic Type Designs and DND 12: Sparkle Magic;
  
  
• How to Create an iOS Lock Screen Widget? by Lee Kah Seng explores use of WidgetKit for Lock Screen widgets;
  
  
• Moritz Philip Recke provides a guide on DocC usage on GitHub Pages – Configuring the Hosting Base Path in Xcode to Publish DocC Documentation on GitHub Pages;
  
  
• How to perform a lightweight migration in Core Data by Natascha Fadeeva guides through simple but important process working with Core Data;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explains new concurrency usage in SwiftUI – Efficiently Managing Multiple Async Tasks in SwiftUI.

And that is it for today. Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

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!

New iPhones are now arriving and are available in stores. So, you might have slightly less time reading on this weekend. Hopefully, you'll still have some time – we have great pack of articles for this weekend.

• Sarun W. comes up with good articles on common practices in SwiftUI – How to add button to navigation bar in SwiftUI, How to use UIViewController in SwiftUI and SwiftUI List: Basic usage;
  
  
• Editable navigation titles in SwiftUI on iOS 16 by Natalia Panferova goes into details on navigation bar customizations in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explains data structures and algorithms in Linked List Problem – Add Two Numbers in Swift and gets into new background task management in SwiftUI – New BackgroundTask in SwiftUI and How to Test It;
  
  
• Memory management in Combine by Natascha Fadeeva reminds on important aspects of memory management with reactive frameworks;
  
  
• Kevin Ma's Performance-Profiling Swift on Linux: Getting Started covers Swift performance aspects on Linux;
  
  
• The SwiftUI Layout Protocol – Part 2 by Javier is a continuation of Layout protocol exploration;
  
  
• Bruno Rocha does deep dive on existential types in Swift in What's the 'any' keyword? Understanding Type Erasure in Swift;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee covers aspects of WidgetKit in Variable WidgetBundle configuration based on conditions;
  
  
• What are Sendable and @Sendable closures in Swift? by Donny Wals covers structured concurrency aspects in modern Swift (and also small update on how to get more warnings on concurrency – Enabling Concurrency warnings in Xcode 14);
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng explains collection view techniques with SwiftUI cells – How to Refresh Cell’s Content When Using UIHostingConfiguration;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan explores new approach for dependency injection in SwiftUI – Dependency Injection with @State Variables.

And this is it for today. Grab your iPhone 14 Pro Max (in Deep Purple, presumably) and enjoy this new Dynamic Island.

Yes, iPhone 14 preorders are live! And you-know-what Ultra is already backordered for two months. So, let's read something good over the weekend.

• Rens Breur shares couple of great articles on SwiftUI internals – SwiftUI's diffing algorithm, The SwiftUI render loop and Don't use escaping closures in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese also writes on SwiftUI redraw investigations – Exploring SwiftUI Redraw Behavior with Instruments;
  
  
• Three UIKit Protips by Steve Landey explores great tips for almost forgotten framework;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues series on SwiftUI controls – Customizing toolbars in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Accessibility in SwiftUI explained for UIKit developers by Antoine van der Lee is a must read for every developer to bring apps to more people;
  
  
• Great guide on WidgetKit by Natascha Fadeeva – How to build a configurable widget with WidgetKit and SwiftUI;
  
  
• The SwiftUI Lab starts series of articles on SwiftUI Layout protocol – The SwiftUI Layout Protocol – Part 1;
  
  
• Getting Started with Swift Regex by Keith Harrison is a great piece on brand new regular expression framework;
  
  
• Sarun W. shared great articles on SwiftUI and specifically fonts – How to make SwiftUI button with buttonStyle expand to full width, How to use UIFont in SwiftUI Font and SF Font Expanded, Condensed, and Compressed: Three New font width styles in iOS 16.

And that is it for this wallet-endangering weekend. See you next week!

Some places will have longer weekend this time, so let's pack it with great reads!

• Leonardo Maia Pugliese publishes two articles – How to update or refresh Widget and Siri Intent programmatically in Swift for WatchOS? and comprehensive guide on architectural pattern – Memento Pattern with SwiftUI;
  
  
• Building widgets for iOS applications with WidgetKit and SwiftUI by Natascha Fadeeva covers widget development which would help your app make it to Lock Screen on iOS 16;
  
  
• Lock screen widgets in SwiftUI by Majid Jabrayilov continues Lock Screen widgets topic with more details;
  
  
• Great article by Antoine van der Lee on SwiftUI accessibility integrations – VoiceOver navigation improvement tips for SwiftUI apps;
  
  
• And if you're quite new to SwiftUI – SwiftUI View Modifiers Tutorial for iOS by Danijela Vrzan explores view modifiers;
  
  
• SwiftUI AnyLayout - smooth transitions between layout types by Sarun W. provides great overview of new addition to SwiftUI layout;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan touches important aspect of SwiftUI – testability – in Testing SwiftUI Bindings in Xcode Previews;
  
  
• And another great article by Leonardo Maia Pugliese – New MapKit Configurations with SwiftUI with MapKit integration improvements in upcoming releases.

That is all for this weekend! Enjoy the extra day, if applicable :)

Google is bringing the same ease of use as Jetpack Compose for UI the new solution for widgets, with the introduction of Jetpack Glance Alpha.