AppCoda Weekly - AppCoda Weekly - Issue #180

AppCoda Weekly - Issue #180

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The first online-only WWDC is just a few days away. Since people here are from different time zones, I just wonder if you’re planning to watch the conference live or the replay?

As usual, don’t miss this collection of great tutorials. Next week, I’m sure you will see more tutorials about the new update of Xcode, iOS, SwiftUI, ARKit, Core ML, and many more.

Talk soon,

Simon

Beyond App Sandbox: Going outside of the macOS app container

In this tutorial, we’ll give you in-depth insight into App Sandbox for Mac App. As usual, we will walk you through the concept with an example. You will build an app that can read and write outside of its container.

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How We Use Feature Flagging On iOS

Feature flagging is used to gate in-progress features so that you can continue to build and test them without exposing them to regular users before they’re ready. In this post look at how to implement feature flags in WordPress for iOS.

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What Is backIndicatorTransitionMaskImage

To set a custom image for the back button, you need to set an image to both backIndicatorImage and backIndicatorTransitionMaskImage, but what does backIndicatorTransitionMaskImage really mean? Know the answer in this post.

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Understanding Property Wrapper

Know what propertyWrapper is all about and its implementation in this informative tutorial.

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Core Data Performance: 6 Tips You Should Know

Core Data performance is important to prepare your app for future big datasets. Optimize your Core Data code by making use of these 6 tips.

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Level Up Your Trackpad Support Using UIInteraction

Learn how to make your iOS app work well with scrolling, secondary clicking and dragging on a trackpad or mouse.

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Designing Reusable Swift Libraries

This article is about library development, and contains a few techniques and principles that can be good to keep in mind when designing and building reusable Swift libraries.

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A Type-Safe FileWrapper

Discover this powerful API to manipulate files and folders on iOS and macOS with some syntax sugar and safety.

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Building A Silly WatchKit App

WatchKit apps are easy to build and draining to debug and this article proves this as it covers the journey of building a WatchKit app from scratch.

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Subscribing To @Published

A nice tutorial on subscribing to @Published and the issues faced when used with SwiftUI alongwith some solutions to this issue.

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How To Simulate Location While Debugging iOS Application?

Whether location tracking is an essential part of your app or just a feature, testing it is necessary to ensure that the whole application runs smoothly. Here’s a guide on how to simulate location while debugging iOS application.

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Let’s Build A Custom Publisher In Combine

This article helps you discover that once you know the boilerplate, it’s not hard to build a custom publisher in Combine.

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Catch Vs ReplaceError In Combine

Although the catch and replaceError operators look very similar because they both are executed when an error occurs in your pipeline, and they allow you to recover from an error. However, their purposes are very different as shown in this post.

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Using The iOS Keychain With Biometrics

It is dangerous to use the LocalAuthentication framework directly when dealing with credentials. See how using biometrics with the keychain is very easy and you should definitely use it if you are planning to hide credentials behind Touch ID/Face ID.

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Build A Positive News iOS Application Using the Incredible Power Of Machine Learning

How you can create your own positive news iOS application? In this article learn to create an iOS application that will consume an API and select the most positive articles.

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Swift UI Previews On iOS 12 And Below

This article explains how to use SwiftUI on iOS 12 or below projects. Specifically, to display previews of existing views and view controllers during development.

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13 Years Of iOS Development

iOS development has come a long way since June 2007 when the first iPhone was release. With iOS 14 right around the corner, relive the past 13 years of iOS development history with this writeup as it goes version-by-version to see how the platform has evolved.

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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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SF Symbols | New Era In The iOS App Symbols

If you still haven’t used SF Symbols, you can check out this article.

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The Only 4 Tools I Need As A Product — UX Designer

A guide to softwares and tools that are considered essential for Product or User Experience Designer.

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How To Test A Design Concept For Effectiveness

Getting a client or stakeholder to approve a design concept can be challenging. However, testing can make it easier, as well as ensuring you have the right solution.

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