Category: Education

We're swiftly approaching end of the 2023. So here is second to last installment of weekend good reads.

• Natalia Panferova publishes two articles – covering Swift initializers and properties Trigger property observers from initializers in Swift (and some notes from Michael Tsai – Triggering Swift Property Observers From Initializers) and pattern matching with custom types Pattern matching for custom types in Swift;
  
  
• Egor Mikhnevich explores performance issues in table views – Debugging in iOS: Resolving UITextView Flickering Issues;
  
  
• SwiftData Deleting Data by Keith Harrison covers different ways of deleting data in SwiftData framework;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on MapKit in SwiftUI – Mastering MapKit in SwiftUI. Interactions.;
  
  
• Using campaign links to track impressions, downloads, and sales by Antoine van der Lee gives hints on how to measure effectiveness of your app ad campaigns;
  
  
• Christian Tietze covers multiple Swift topics in his articles – Dependency Injection via Protocol Composition and Using Type Markers for 'is' Type Predicates to Cover Generic Types;
  
  
• Preparing your App for VoiceOver: Accessibility Actions by Pasquale Vittoriosi helps improving the app for VoiceOver compatibility;
  
  
• Michael Tsai also covers changes in state restoration in macOS Sonoma – State Restoration With NSSecureCoding on Sonoma.

And just before the year ends we have podcast episode to close the season too.

See you next week!

The year is almost over, but for this weekend we have a lot to read. And also, couple of interesting library updates.

• Natascha Fadeeva shares guide for subscriptions – Get started with auto‑renewable subscriptions for iOS;
  
  
• App engagement metrics: 5 essential metrics for subscription apps by Peter Meinertzhagen will help to monitor success of subscriptions;
  
  
• Mastering MapKit in SwiftUI. Camera. by Majid Jabrayilov is continuation on MapKit series;
  
  
• Nishant Desai covers benefits of image asset catalogs in Using Asset Catalogs for Images;
  
  
• Symbolicate crash logs with Xcode by Antoine van der Lee is a great guide on crash debugging;
  
  
• Symbolicating SwiftUI (and any Apple Framework), Part 2 by Itay Brenner adds more details on symbolication process;
  
  
• Jon Reid publishes checklist on how to optimize projects for faster feedback gathering – How to Optimize Your Xcode Project for Fast Test Feedback;
  
  
• Christian Tietze publishes small hint on how better git configuration for projects with Swift Packages – Ignore Generated Xcode .xcworkspace Files in Git Except Package.resolved;
  
  
• Mastering the ‘Final’ Keyword in Swift: A Comprehensive Guide for Optimized Coding by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is targeting optimal Swift programming practices;
  
  
• Tiago Gomes Pereira explains use of new framework in SwiftUI – Using TipKit on a SwiftUI app;
  
  
• Dealing with the init(destination:tag:selection ) was deprecated in iOS 16.0 message is a quick hint by Mark Szymczyk on how to transition to new navigation approach in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Alex Ozun covers new design pattern in Swift 5.9 – Typestate - the new Design Pattern in Swift 5.9;
  
  
• Automating Memory Leak Detection with CI Integration for iOS by Tuan Hoang (Eric) is a very good take on fixing memory leaks in your apps;
  
  
• SwiftUI geometryGroup() Guide: From Theory to Practice by fatbobman helps with SwiftUI view transformations and transitions.

And couple of interesting recent updates:

• OpenAPI Generator is now at 1.0.0 version, consider start using in your projects;
  
  
• Swift OpenAPI transport for AWS Lambda library is now available, allowing server-side Swift applications to use Swift OpenAPI generator on server;
  
  
• Apple updated SwiftUI tutorials, could be a good start for new developers;
  
  
• Google releases AI SDK for Swift, allowing native access to Google's AI services.

With this we'd like to wish you a great weekend. Come back next week for some more great reads.

We're slowly approaching 2024, another issue of good reads is here to make this weekend more productive.

• Small hint on NSFileManager from Michael Tsai – NSFileManager’s File Copy Error Messages Lie;
  
  
• Couple of good articles from Marin Todorov – Injecting code in result builders on how to improve debugging of SwiftUI views and other result builders and review of his MarkWalkthrough framework – Easy app walkthroughs with MarkWalkthrough (also, worth checking his project list – Marin's Side Projects 2023);
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on MapKit in SwiftUI – Mastering MapKit in SwiftUI. Customizations.;
  
  
• SFSafariViewController in SwiftUI: Open webpages in-app by Antoine van der Lee will help you integrate Safari into your SwiftUI app;
  
  
• Jesse Squires comes up with two hints for developers – Xcode does not have access to your shell environment and advices for those who want to become indie developers – Going Indie: bookkeeping and invoicing;
  
  
• Keeping Up with Swift and iOS is a good collection of resources by Jordan Morgan to keep up with modern Swift and iOS features;
  
  
• Domenico De Luca explores accessibility requirements from different perspectives – Exploring accessibility regulations and guidelines;
  
  
• Using and Creating Resources in Godot 4 by Eric Van de Kerckhove will improve your game creating skills;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explores use of geofencing in SwiftUI apps – A Guide to Geofences in SwiftUI.

With this – we'd like to wish you a great weekend. See you next time with more good reads.

Apple adds more resources for developers to Developer Portal. This includes:

• Q&A: Spatial design for visionOS – information on frequently asked questions on spatial design;
• New videos on Game Center, Journaling Suggestions API and updated documentation on various topics.

Apple Developer: Hello Developer: December 2023

It's December already. And we're getting our last installments of good reads in this year.

• Francesco Perchiazzi explores spatial computing development patterns in Embracing Extended Reality: visionOS challenges;
  
  
• Create an AsyncStream from withObservationTracking() function by Natalia Panferova is about merging new observation framework with structured concurrency;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva continues his series on SwiftData – How to store images in SwiftData;
  
  
• Mastering MapKit in SwiftUI. Basics is Majid Jabrayilov another good take on using maps in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee gives overview of Swift language development process – Swift Evolution: Reading and learning from proposals;
  
  
• Matteo Altobello explores SwiftUI app lifecycle in Accessing the app life cycle within a SwiftUI app;
  
  
• Create Your Own Step Counter SwiftUI App in 5 Minutes by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is a great guide on how to build full app on SwiftUI;
  
  
• And another take by Matteo Altobello on animations in RealityKit – Play an animation in RealityKit.

And this is it for today. Next week we'll have more great articles to read.

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).

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!

Over 30 new developer activities are announced by Apple. These include Apple Vision Pro developer labs, App Store sessions, new Apple Vision Pro sessions and 1-on-1 design and technology consultations.

Developers should check schedule for appropriate sessions.

Apple Developer: Over 30 new developer activities now available

Apple announces its annual Swift Student Challenge. Website contains inspiration resources, eligibility requirements and information on important dates.

Applications will open in February 2024 for three weeks.

Apple Developer

Apple Newsroom: Apple’s Swift Student Challenge to open in 2024 with new category

Apple Developer:

• Announcing the Swift Student Challenge 2024
• Swift Student Challenge