AppCoda Weekly - AppCoda Weekly - Issue #183

AppCoda Weekly - Issue #183

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Earlier, Apple released Xcode 12 beta and the second developer beta of macOS Big Sur. And iOS 14 beta is also available for the public. If you still haven’t tried out the new Xcode, it’s time to download it.

This week, we collected tons of tutorials related to the iOS 14 update of SwiftUI and UIKit. And, if you are developing a Mac app and want to distribute outside of App Store, we have a new tutorial for you too.

As usual, this is a busy month for us. We are hard at work updating our Swift and SwiftUI books. We have a lot of new content to cover and add to the existing books. If you have any suggested topics (e.g. Working with SwiftUI and CloudKit), please feel free to let me know.

Regards,

Simon

Tutorials

Using Packages to create an installer for distributing macOS apps outside of the Mac App Store

In this tutorial, we will explain how to use Packages, by far one of the most popular tools for developing macOS app installers. It is used by macOS developers worldwide. This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions, including many screenshots, walking you through the entire process of building installers.

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StoreKit Testing Improvements In iOS 14

Configuring and testing In-app purchases is one of the most annoying, but most critical steps of building iOS apps. Discover here how Apple has just made the process a whole lot easier with fantastic new features announced at WWDC 2020.

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Async Image Loading —It’s Combine Way

The Combine Framework is very powerful. See how it provides a simpler way to do asynchronous tasks like async image loading.

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A First Look At Apple’s New Augmented Reality Features

Here is an overview of what is known in the augmented reality world. You can find a list of AR recommended sessions to check out from this year’s WWDC at the end of the article.

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What’s New In SwiftUI

The next iteration of the SwiftUI framework was announced at WWDC 20. Majid in this post takes a peek at all-new SwiftUI features.

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iOS 14: Notable UIKit Additions

If you thought UIKit was getting pushed to the side with the rise of SwiftUI, you were wrong. There’s a lot that’s new, improved or revamped and you just need to take a look at this article.

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Add Custom SwiftUI View To View Library With LibraryContentProvider

With Xcode 12 you can take any of your views to the View Library. Here’s a new way to create a reusable view.

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How SwiftUI Can Now Be Used To Build Entire iOS Apps

Starting this year, entire apps can now be defined directly using SwiftUI from top to bottom. Take a first look at how that works for iOS apps.

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Getting Ready For New iOS 14 Local Network Privacy Restrictions

Exploring how to add support for local network privacy if, for example, your app uses URLSession to access local servers.

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We Measure Developer Build Times So That We Can Measure Improvements And Regressions

Donal O'Brien from the core clients team at SoundCloud shares how they leveraged modularization, Tuist, and tools like Sourcery to overcome the challenges they faced while scaling the app.

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Exploring iOS 14: Building Lists The Modern Way

In this blog post explore how to build a list using a UICollectionView and how to configure and update cells using UIContentConfiguration in iOS 14.

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What’s New In iOS 14

From smaller changes, like threaded replies in Messages, to more significant updates, like App Clips, this article will cover the most important updates to the iPhone’s new operating system.

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How To Create Widgets In iOS 14 In Swift

With the new Widget APIs in iOS 14, you’re not only able to add widgets directly to your home screen, but they are also completely written in SwiftUI. This article shows you to develop a Widget that shows you the latest commit in the Swift repository.

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Coloring SVG Assets In SwiftUI

This tutorial shows you a way to use Xcode 12’s new SVG asset support, standard SwiftUI layout, and flexibility when applying color blend to assets that might not just be black and white.

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Building Widgets For iOS 14

Another tutorial to show you how to build a widget in iOS 14.

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WWDC20 Session Notes

This blog post presents all the notes about the WWDC20 sessions grouped by their topic instead of session.

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SF Symbols: The Benefits And How To Use Them Guide

SF Symbols allow you to use over 1,500 symbols in your app using Swift. Learn to create custom symbols, set scales and weights using symbol configurations.

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Keyboards Options For SwiftUI Fields

A post exploring the keyboard options on SwiftUI. From the keyboardType function to using custom views like a date picker

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Decoding A Model With Different JSON With Decodable

Learn to de-serialize or parsing the different JSON and map to same model with Decodable.

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Using Multi-Colored Icons In iOS 14 With SF Symbols 2

The ability to use multi-colored symbols in your app is a very welcome addition to the SF Symbols feature and it can add a really vibrant touch to your apps.

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Mastering SwiftUI

Learn how to build fluid UIs and a real world app with SwiftUI. 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. We’ve added 300 pages of new content since the initial release of the book. Now it covers JSON, Core Data, advanced view transition and many more. With the new version of SwiftUI in iOS 14, we are adding more new content to the book. And you will get the new update for free.

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UI/ UX

How to make Perfect Shadows in UI Design - Prototypr

Shadows are everywhere in modern UI Designs. With this short tutorial, you will learn how to create stunning shadows for your cards, buttons, or whatever UI control you want.

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UI cheat sheet: pagination, infinite scroll and the load more button

When you have a lot of content, you have to rely on one of these three patterns to load it. So, which is best? What will your users like? What do most platforms use? These are the questions this article will answer.

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Dear Product Designers, This Is New In iOS 14

Apple previewed iOS 14 for the first time in WWDC. As always there are quite some changes you should know about as a product designer like widgets, pickers, app clips, permissions and more. Take a look at some changes in iOS 14 that will impact your future projects.

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