AppCoda Weekly - AppCoda Weekly - Issue #176

AppCoda Weekly - Issue #176

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Along with the release of iOS 13.5, Apple released an update of Xcode, pushing the version to 11.5. Have you upgraded to the new version?

Our Mastering SwiftUI book also got an update. We’ve released a new chapter showing you how to build an App Store like animation. You can .

We have collected over 10 tutorials for your weekend reading. Please remember to spare a couple of hours this weekend to learn the new skills.

Regards,

Simon

Tutorials

10 Core Principles To Use CoreData Without Blowing Your Head Off

Olivier Destrebecq shares his 10 battle learned CoreData lessons. This article is intended to be an article with some good practice you can pick up for your projects.

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How To Compare Two App Version Strings In Swift

Comparing an app version might not be easy when you try to do this in code. Learn how to check your app version strings are higher or lower.

sarunw.com • Share

Quick Introduction Reflection In Swift

This post introduces you to a feature of Swift called Reflection which is a very interesting feature that allows to create some sort of meta-programming in Swift.

www.andyibanez.com • Share

How To Bind An Array To Multiple TextFields?

Do you know how to bind an array to multiple textFields? Read this post to get a guidance on this.

samwize.com • Share

The Different Categories Of Swift Protocols

That protocol-oriented design enables us to use protocols in many different ways within our own code as well — all of which can essentially be divided into four main categories. This articles goes through those categories, and both take a look at how Apple uses protocols within their frameworks, and how we can define our own protocols in a very similar fashion.

www.swiftbysundell.com • Share

Unit Testing Preprocessor Macros In Swift

Macros are used to bring context to a build. Explore how you can unit test their presence / absence while still keeping your app’s unreachable code uncompiled.

swiftrocks.com • Share

Clustering Annotations In MKMapView

If you need to display many annotations in your MKMapView, it is recommended to cluster them for better performance. This post shows the implementation of this technique.

blog.kulman.sk • Share

Using Custom Debug Descriptions To Improve Debugging

Do you know that custom debug descriptions help to improve and speed up debugging sessions? Print out the values that matter and make “po object” more valuable.

www.avanderlee.com • Share

Flipping And Localizing Image Assets

You sometimes need to flip or mirror images for Right-to-Left (RTL) languages. Here’s how to achieve this.

useyourloaf.com • Share

Testing SwiftUI Views

Explore testing SwiftUI views. What is snapshot testing? How to snapshot test SwiftUI views with code examples? Best practices of snapshot testing in SwiftUI using Swift and Xcode.

www.vadimbulavin.com • Share

Morphing Shapes In SwiftUI

This is another blog post about SwiftUI animations. Learn to utilize AnimatableVector for morphing shapes.

nerdyak.tech • Share

Swift Development With Visual Studio Code

A walk through the process of how to get started with Swift’s new Language Server Protocol support in Visual Studio Code on macOS.

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How And When To Use KVO In Swift And UIKit

KVO is often an example of something you should not use if you want to avoid crashes. But what if you need to use it? This guide will help you in setting up KVO.

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Creating Type-Safe Identifiers For Your Codable Models

Understand exactly why you’d want to have type-safe identifiers for your models, what type-safe identifiers exactly mean and how you can implement them on your models.

www.donnywals.com • Share

Different Approach To Attributed Strings In Swift

Dive in to see how you can create a declarative, MVVM-friendly API for AttributedStrings that tells what, not how to render.

sunshinejr.com • Share

SwiftUI Navigation In List View: Programmatically Dismiss Detail

Look into the differences of programmatically dismissing the detail view on iPhone and in a split view on iPad.

lostmoa.com • Share

Building Calendar Without UICollectionView In SwiftUI

Majid in his blog post shows you that you can create a calendar view without UICollectionView by using only pure SwiftUI.

swiftwithmajid.com • Share

The Introduction To Missing Keyboard Layout Guide

Every iOS developer experiences a problem with the keyboard that when visible, it covers quite a lot of the screen. This article is about a solution which is surprisingly simple and works pretty well.

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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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