AppCoda Weekly - AppCoda Weekly - Issue #170

AppCoda Weekly - Issue #170

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This week, we’ve written a new tutorial about app group communication between macOS and iOS apps. And as usual, we’ve collected tons of great tutorials that will definitely help you improve the development skills.

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Tutorials

Using App Groups for communication between macOS/iOS apps

Apple’s “app group” technology allows a collection of macOS (or iOS) apps from the same development team, developer, vendor, etc., to all communicate with each other, coordinate functionality, share resources, and minimize redundancies. Andrew will walk you through the configuration and encoding of an app group whose members communicate through a shared instance of UserDefaults.

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Useful Global Swift Functions

The Swift Standard Library still has quite a few public global functions, and some of them are still useful to this day. Take a look at functions like zip() and dump().

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Emitting Errors And Warnings In Xcode Run Script Phase

This tutorial presents how to add a simple Run Script Phase and emit log, warning and error messages from it.

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SwiftUI ButtonStyle

SwiftUI makes it very easy to customize a button style. Learn how to create a reusable button style in SwiftUI.

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Modern MVVM iOS App Architecture With Combine And SwiftUI

Learn how to build an iOS app with MVVM architecture pattern using Swift, Combine and SwiftUI with the complete sample project included.

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Adding Your App’s Content To Spotlight

Learn how you can use user activities and CoreSpotlight to add your app’s content to the Spotlight index on iOS to help users find content in your app.

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Workaround For Swift Scripts Crashing After Update To Xcode 11.4

When you update to Xcode 11.4 that ships with Swift 5.2 you might notice that your Swift scripts all start crashing when accessing anything related to URL. Igor Kulman has found a workaround for this problem.

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Hover Effect In SwiftUI

This article helps you learn how to be a good iOS citizen and add support for the trackpad to your SwiftUI views.

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Implementing Mouse Pointer Interactions On iPad

This is a very quick overview on how to implement custom pointer support on iPad for your apps.

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Implementing Dark Mode And Using CGColor

When you go to implement Dark Mode in your apps, beware of custom view drawing code. If you find bugs like Jesse try searching for usage of .cgColor.

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Getting Started With Combine

Maybe you’re not yet ready to jump into SwiftUI but you can still get started with Combine. Here’s a gentle introduction to using Combine to validate user input.

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Keyboard And Combine

Handling the keyboard on iOS is a rite of passage if not also a little tiresome. Fortunately, see how Combine makes it better.

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How To Automate iOS App Development And Deployment Using A Pure Swift Tool — Puma

This post discusses what makes Puma different from other existing tools and covers some tips and tricks in order to work with this library more efficiently.

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Combine + Diffable Data Source

Combine and diffable data sources are two powerful yet often-overlooked features that came out of WWDC 2019. Explore these two powerful native frameworks here.

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NSFetchedResultsController Extension To Observe Relationship Changes

Extend the NSFetchedResultsController to observe relationship changes based on key paths and automatically refresh related cells.

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tintColor

This post introduces you to one of an essential part of iOS theming like what is tintColor and its benefit.

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No Headache: Auto Layout Tips In Interface Builder

Recent versions of Xcode and Interface Builder are great visual tools to build auto layout UIs.Here are some auto layout tips in Interface Builder

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A Guide To The SwiftUI Layout System

Take a look at the SwiftUI layout system by starting to build a full-screen view from scratch. Along the way see how to use different techniques and APIs, which lets you explore the underlying rules of the SwiftUI layout system.

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Swift Logging

Take a look at SwiftLog, a community-driven, open-source standard for logging in Swift. Any Swift code intended to be run from the command line would benefit from adopting SwiftLog.

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How To Use Binding In SwiftUI

Do you know how to use Binding in SwiftUI? If not then this post is just for you.

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Mastering SwiftUI

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UI/ UX

With Love For The User: UI/UX Trends 2020

What UI/UX trends are relevant in development? Look at the most notable and useful trends to improve the user experience and create a sought after product.

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Online Resources For Self-Isolated UI Designers

Instead of working crazy hours, you can now finally slow down and enjoy these great design content!

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7 Laws Of UX Design And What Happens When You Break Them

In this article explore 7 UX design laws and see if popular flight booking websites follow these rules and if no, how the result looks like.

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Libraries

SourceKitForSafari

SourceKit for Safari is a browser extension for GitHub, that enables IDE features on your browser such as symbol navigator, go to definition and documentation on hover.

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