AppCoda Weekly - AppCoda Weekly - Issue #173

AppCoda Weekly - Issue #173

By AppCoda Weekly • Issue #173 • View online

This week, we collected a huge list of tutorials ranging from SwiftUI to UIPointerInteractions to static website generator. Just pick the one you are interested and start learning!

Btw, we’ve updated our Personal Finance app, which comes along with our Mastering SwiftUI book, with Core Data support. If you want to learn how to integrate Core Data in SwiftUI projects, the book now has two full chapters and two demo apps to walk you through the details. And, you can take advantage of the discount code “indieios” to start your learning. Just pick the package you like and enter the code at checkout to enjoy the discount.

Talk to you next week.

Regards,

Simon

Tutorials

How Apple And Google’s Coronavirus Contact Tracing System Works

Recently Apple and Google have announced a new partnership to fight against the current COVID-19 pandemic and both companies will embed a Contact Tracing system at the OS level. In this article see how the Coronavirus Contact Tracing works.

www.fivestars.blog • Share

A Security Review Of 1,300 AppStore Applications

The study explores why we need runtime protections like jailbreak, debugger, hooking detections inside iOS apps. It also shows the number of applications in AppStore that implement these techniques.

seredynski.com • Share

Layout Priorities In SwiftUI

Understand how SwiftUI calculates positions and sizes of your views and how you can change that process using layout priorities.

swiftwithmajid.com • Share

Coordinator Pattern In iOS 13 World

See how was the structure of an iOS app was really simple and straightforward before iOS 13. Take a look how scenes changed this setup.

aplus.rs • Share

Lottie Advance Animation Playback

Lottie provide various ways to control animation playback. In this article, learn how to leverage Lottie’s playback APIs to create variants of animations.

swiftsenpai.com • Share

Build layout Programmatically Or Visually With SwiftUI

Do you prefer to build layout programmatically or visually with SwiftUI ? Which might be the same as, does your brain prefer to read/write or to picture something? This post helps you decide.

www.morningswiftui.com • Share

Implementing UIPointerInteractions For iPad

This post goes over all the new APIs around pointer interactions, and points out some gotchas that will help you make your iPad app feel great when used with pointer input.

blog.timroesner.com • Share

Memberwise Initializers For Structure Types

Struct is one of the basic building blocks in your app. This tutorial shares some tips about memberwise Initializers.

sarunw.com • Share

It’s OK To Use Storyboards

Dive in this post to know why it’s ok to use storyboards for your user interface, especially if you are new to iOS development.

www.swiftdevjournal.com • Share

Building a Static Website in Swift

Here’s Roland an open source, blog-aware, static website generator written in Swift that also uses PHP under the hood because PHP is still the best template language.

tyler.io • Share

Getting Started With Device Framed Screenshots For iOS App Store Using Fastlane

Dive in to know how to add fastlane to existing project, setting up UI-testing target, scheme for App Store screenshot tests, and framing screenshots with additional text.

augmentedcode.io • Share

UICollectionView -Developing Filters UI Using Auto Resizing Cells

This article teaches you how to develop auto resizing cells based on content using UIStackView in UICollectionView.

medium.com • Share

Modules And Hooks In Swift

Learn how to extend your application with new functionalities using a loosely coupled modular plugin system written in Swift.

theswiftdev.com • Share

Using @IBSegueAction With Tab Bar Controllers

Xcode 11 introduced @IBSegueAction to create a segue’s destination view controller in code with a custom initializer. How does that work when the segue source is a tab bar controller or navigation controller?

useyourloaf.com • Share

Quick Tip: Accessibility Zoom To Debug Layout

Sometimes during the development of an iOS app, you need to figure out, how many pixels are between two views. Here’s a quick tip.

dasdom.github.io • Share

Notifying Users When An iOS App Update Is Available On AppStore

A post about the importance of being able to prompt users to update their app to the latest version and how to implement it on an iOS app.

diamantidis.github.io • Share

SwiftUI Previews: Validating Views In Different States

See how SwiftUI previews can be used to display a view in dark mode, different localizations, different text sizes, all at the same time!

www.avanderlee.com • Share

Collapsing Top Bar Animation With SwiftUI

The default NavigationView doesn’t provide much customizations in terms of the UI. See how you can do this with your own implementation in SwiftUI.

martinmitrevski.com • Share

DynamicButtonStack: Motivation And Design Details

In this article, Douglas Hill discusses the problems solved by, and the design principles behind, his small open source project DynamicButtonStack.

douglashill.co • Share

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Mastering SwiftUI

Learn how to build fluid UIs and a real world app with SwiftUI, Apple’s brand new framework introduced in iOS 13. Dive deep into SwiftUI and learn to develop UI in declarative syntax. You will work with various UI elements including Context Menu, List, ScrollView, etc, and learn how to create complex layouts with Stacks.

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Best Fonts For Mobile App Design: UX & Typography

From timeless Serifs to streamlined Sans-Serif fonts to leading-edge web fonts, what’s the best font choice for mobile app design? Here’s the best ones you should use for your next mobile app design.

www.justinmind.com • Share

10 Rules For Better UX Design

Take a look at these laws and effects and how they apply to User Experience. Understanding these rules will allow you to plan better and create better designs.

uxplanet.org • Share