Tag: XCTest

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!

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.

Weekend is here, so is another list of great reads.

• Starting with good NSPredicate guide by Natascha Fadeeva – Get started with NSPredicate to filter NSFetchRequest in Core Data;
  
  
• Activities and attachments in the XCTest framework by Majid Jabrayilov covers good practices to make your tests more understandable by other developers;
  
  
• Marco Eidinger covers important topic of debugging of authentication flow – Debugging ASWebAuthenticationSession;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explores proper error handling approaches in Swift – The operation couldn’t be completed: solving errors in Swift;
  
  
• From Concept to Code: Strategies for Planning Animations in SwiftUI is truly nice guide by Leonardo Maia Pugliese on animations in SwiftUI;
  
  
• A little bit of pixel hunting from David Smith – Spot the Difference;
  
  
• SwiftUI layout technique is covered in Working with percentages in SwiftUI layout by Ole Begemann;
  
  
• Using foregroundColor(), foregroundStyle() or tint() to set text color in SwiftUI by Natalia Panferova explores several ways of setting element color in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Couple of hints by Jesse Squires – Improving multiplatform SwiftUI code and Xcode Tip: filter to show modified files only;
  
  
• Enabling the Inspection of Web Content in Apps by Patrick Angle provides invaluable help on debugging of web content;
  
  
• And nice guide on attributed strings in iOS 15 and up – AttributedString in iOS 15 by Sarun W.

And that is it for today. See you next week!

It's middle of March, summer is closer and closer. We've got eleventh pack of great articles for this year.

• Developer guide on machine learning for iOS with Core ML by Natascha Fadeeva gives great start on how to add machine learning capabilities to your app;
  
  
• Interesting trick by Magnus Jensen – Blendmode trick: SwiftUI reverse mask;
  
  
• Keith Harrison continues his series of articles on various SwiftUI elements – Context Menus for Tables;
  
  
• Keep your CoreData store small by vacuuming by Marco Eidinger shows usually unseen side of keeping data in local database;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng talks about making widgets interactive – How to Handle Tap Gestures on Widgets?;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov shows how to use XCTest framework to do performance testing – Performance testing in Swift using the XCTest framework;
  
  
• SwiftUI Toolbar: Everything You Need to Know by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is a great guide on toolbars from SwiftUI perspective;
  
  
• Peter Meinertzhagen discusses importance of localization in the apps – Why localization has been so important for kids app, Pok Pok;
  
  
• Donny Wals goes through structured concurrency in Swift – The basics of structured concurrency in Swift explained.

And that is it for today. Have a great spring weekend!

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!

Good reads for Apple developers is back! This would be a long weekend – we have some much to catch up with.

• Cascading Environment actions in SwiftUI by Magnus Jensen shows how to use Environment to pass actions to views;
  
  
• Interesting take on Java Script injection in Web Views by Lee Kah Seng – Injecting JavaScript Into Web View In iOS;
  
  
• How to customize automatic synthesizing Codable for enums with associated values by Sarun W. digs into customization points for Codable;
  
  
• Continuing Codable improvements with Encoding and decoding references to other types with Codable by Guilherme Rambo;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov digs into SwiftUI architecture approaches – Microapps architecture in Swift. SPM basics.;
  
  
• Unobtrusive runtime warnings for libraries by Point-Free covers interesting aspect of showing runtime warnings;
  
  
• Noah Martin covers performance implications of protocol checking via as? – The Surprising Cost of Protocol Conformances in Swift;
  
  
• A guide to NSButton styles by Kuba Suder is VERY detailed guide on macOS buttons;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva publishes Public-key cryptography with CryptoKit for iOS with basics on cryptography using CryptoKit;
  
  
• John Sundell covers great API design tips in Creating Combine-compatible versions of async/await-based APIs;
  
  
• Vision Tutorial for iOS: What’s New With Face Detection? by Tom Elliott digs into iOS computer vision framework.

Have a nice weekend!