AppCoda Weekly - AppCoda Weekly - Issue #177

AppCoda Weekly - Issue #177

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We did a survey some time ago that our readers want to learn more about macOS app development. This week, it comes with another macOS tutorial.

Can you distribute your macOS app outside of the Mac App Store?

In this new tutorial, we will share our experiences in developing and distributing macOS apps outside of the Mac App Store and show you how you can do it too. So, don’t miss the tutorial if you are planning to release your macOS app.

By the way, are you learning macOS app development? Any suggestions for our next tutorial?

Talk soon,

Simon

Tutorials

Beyond the Sandbox: Signing and distributing macOS apps outside of the Mac App Store

A tutorial on sandboxing, signing, notarizing, and distributing macOS apps outside of the Mac App Store. We’ll talk about certificates, app signing, and finally cover distribution.

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Settings Bundles Management In Xcode

Learn how Settings bundle works in Xcode and explore ways to manage Settings bundle in an environment with multiple build configurations and app targets.

swiftsenpai.com • Share

Everything Wrong With XCFrameworks

Know about a few things that can block developers from using XCFrameworks expecially with Swift projects and hence, that could explain why they are not widely popular on iOS.

pyckamil.github.io • Share

Remove Xcode’s File Header Comments

This article presents the steps to uncover a bit of Xcode dark magic to create a new custom file template with no auto-generated comments.

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SwiftUI Navigation In List View: Default Selection

Learn how to navigate to a list item by default on app launch to avoid showing an empty detail view on iPad or for state restoration.

lostmoa.com • Share

Animating Annotations Position Change In MKMapView

Annotations are mainly used to displays static “pins” in MKMapView but sometimes you might need to make them move and animate their position changes so it looks better to the users.

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Template-View Pattern In SwiftUI

Majid shares an approach which he calls template-view. It helpshime to solve the problem when he needs to place a vertical or horizontal stack with equal-sized views that support Dynamic Type.

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Getting Started With Testing your Combine code – Donny Wals

A question that often comes up when folks get into learning Combine is “how do I test code that uses Combine?”. This post briefly explains the basics of testing Combine code.

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Swift Filtering With Predicates

A work through how you can use NSPredicate in Swift to filter a list of value types using an increasingly complicated combination of search criteria.

useyourloaf.com • Share

How to add a shield on the App Icon of beta builds

A post describing how to change the App Icon of an iOS app and add shield with the configuration and the version of the build.

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Speed Up your iOS Development: Snapshot & Property-based testing

Does your layout work as expected in any condition? This article tries to provide a way to test the layout, helping you to speed up the development phase and increase the quality of the product, assuring that the outputs are the expected ones.

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Building an adaptive button / jeffwatkins.dev

Dive into this tutorial to learn to build an adaptive button using UIControl by replacing UIButton.

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Propagating user-facing errors in Swift

Take a look at a few techniques that can make it much simpler to propagate runtime errors to your users, and how employing some of those techniques could help you present richer error messages without having to add a ton of complexity within each UI implementation.

swiftbysundell.com • Share

Using Combine to simulate async / await in Swift – More Indirection

Apple’s new Combine framework lets you create very flexible, reliable wrappers around any callback-based API. Hope the technique given in this article helps you escape from callback hell!

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UI Testing iOS application with EarlGrey · On Swift Wings

In this article take a look at the UI testing on iOS and learn how to write clean and concise UI tests using EarlGrey framework.

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Saving Data in a Swift App – Swift Dev Journal

There are multiple methods to save data in your app, Explore all the methods for saving data that make sense for your app.

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How Random Numbers Work In Swift

Ssee how to use the new APIs, but most importantly, how they are implemented inside the Swift compiler.

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Decode An Array With A Corrupted Element

When working with an unstable, legacy, or third party API, you might get a malformed object in an array. Learn how to decode a JSON array with corrupted data in Codable safely.

sarunw.com • Share

Dependency Injection With Storyboards On Apple Platforms

Discover how with iOS 13 it is now possible to use Dependency Injection with Storyboards directly.

www.andyibanez.com • Share

Fully Training A Core ML Convolutional Neural Network On-Device

Did you know you can fully train a LeNet convolutional neural network (CNN) directly on iOS devices? This article shows how to implement this.

heartbeat.fritz.ai • Share

Display Multiple Sheet In A SwiftUI View

This post presents an approach to hold all different kind of sheets in your SwiftUI View. It gives more clarity and scale better when you will need to add more kind of sheets.

www.morningswiftui.com • Share

Custom Animated Progress Bars With UIBezierPaths

Learn how to make custom animated progress bars from scratch by harvesting the power of UIBezierPath, which allows to draw anything by code!

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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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UI/ UX

Dropdown Design: guidelines for web and mobile - Justinmind

What makes a good dropdown design? What changes when designing for mobile screens? This post has got the full run-through for you!

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Fundamentals of Layout in Interface Design (UI) - Muzli - Design Inspiration

The layout is the e-structure that supports the visual components of an interface. This write up deals with the composition, balance and how to manage a good structure.

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How To Succeed In Wireframe Design — Smashing Magazine

In this article, we will take a deeper look at one of the most simple yet quite often underrated activities in web development: the design of wireframes.

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