AppCoda Weekly - AppCoda Weekly - Issue #184

AppCoda Weekly - Issue #184

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We are still exploring all the new features of SwiftUI and target to release an update for our Mastering SwiftUI book in late Jul.

In Xcode 12, Apple introduced a new feature that lets you easily share your custom views to the View library. Some readers asked what does this mean? For example, we’ve built a progress view and want to make it available for other developers. You can now use the LibraryContentProvider protocol and add the control to the View library. Later, you can then drag the component from the library and use it directly. You can check out this demo video to see it in action.

As usual, we got a large collection of tutorials for your reading this week. Hope you enjoy them!

Talk soon,

Simon

Tutorials

Using LinkPresentation Framework to Present Rich Links in iOS Apps

The LinkPresentation framework is a very useful framework introduced in iOS 13. It makes presenting rich links in apps a simple and straightforward process.

www.appcoda.com • Share

Use AppleScript To Generate An Enum For SF Symbols

Find out how to use SF Symbols in a type-safe manner with an enum generated with AppleScript

diamantidis.github.io • Share

10 Code Snippets From WWDC20

10 Swift code snippets coming with new iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 SDKs presented during Apple WWDC 2020, covering UIKit, UIMenu, Core Location, Privacy tracking.

medium.com • Share

Apple Machine Learning In 2020: What’s New?

A look at what has changed in Apple’s machine learning APIs for iOS and macOS.

machinethink.net • Share

iOS 14: Quick Dive Into The New UIColorWell

Dive into the new UIColorWell. This looks like an ideal solution if you want to let user pick multiple colors.

nemecek.be • Share

Implementing An Infinite Scrolling List With SwiftUI And Combine

Learn how to use SwiftUI’s onAppear and Combine to build a List that scrolls forever. As a bonus, you’ll also see how you can achieve the same with a LazyVStack.

www.donnywals.com • Share

As, As?, And As!

The as and as? operators in Swift are more different than their similar names suggest. Know what is the difference between as, as?, and as! operators.

oleb.net • Share

WWDC 2020 Viewing Guide

If you still haven’t checked out the WWDC videos, take a look at this viewing guide. You’ll get a recap of the best sessions from WWDC 2020 and plan your learning path for the year.

useyourloaf.com • Share

Backward Compatibility With SwiftUI

The WWDC brought some nice new additions to SwiftUI. Time to see how to make your code backward compatible to make sure it still runs with older OS versions.

swiftui-lab.com • Share

SVG Assets In Xcode For Single Scale Images

SVG Image Assets allow you to use Singe Scale icons and symbols. Go through this article to stop wasting your time by generating @1x, @2x, and @3x images by using SVG assets instead.

www.avanderlee.com • Share

Creating Debug Menus In Swift With UIContextMenuInteraction

Debug menus in iOS are an effective way to make your debugging day more productive. See how you can use UIContextMenuInteraction to create debug-only menus.

swiftrocks.com • Share

A Guide To SwiftUI’s State Management System

Take a closer look at each of SwiftUI’s state handling property wrappers, how they relate to each other, and how they make up different parts of SwiftUI’s overall state management system.

www.swiftbysundell.com • Share

SwiftUI And Data Flow

WWDC 2020 has clarified much on how you should manage data flow when using SwiftUI and this post helps you to understand how to use the various components correctly.

samwize.com • Share

New In iOS 14: Vision Contour Detection

Apple boosts its computer vision ambitions with a bunch of new Vision requests. Dive deeper into this particularly interesting addition—the contour detection Vision request.

heartbeat.fritz.ai • Share

A Touch Of Combine

This article shows a way of using Combine in a very limited approach within your code, mostly to handle events within the scope of a single controller.

appventure.me • Share

Nearby Interaction iOS 14 WWDC20

Learn about a new feature Apple has announced for iOS 14 called “Nearby Interaction” which locates and interacts with nearby devices using distance and direction.

medium.com • Share

Adding Optional @Bindings To SwiftUI Views

How can a view deal with getting, and also not getting, a @Binding? This article tries to create a View with the same API.

www.fivestars.blog • Share

ScrollViewReader And OnChange Modifier In SwiftUI

Explore how to programmatically scroll SwiftUI ScrollView with a dynamic set of items to a new item that has just been added by combining the new APIs in iOS14: ScrollViewReader and onChange view modifier.

lostmoa.com • Share

A First Look At MatchedGeometryEffect

This tutorial is about GeometryEffect modifier which can interpolate position and size between two views. See what it is capable of in this beta.

sarunw.com • Share

UIMenu Improvements In iOS 14

UIMenu allows you to add menus to different parts of your UIs, including binding actions to key combinations when using your iOS or iPadOS device with a keyboard. This tutorial brings a bunch of interesting and unexpected features of UIMenu in iOS 14.

www.andyibanez.com • 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. We include one year free update, so you will receive new content for iOS 14 for free.

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UI/ UX

Using SVGs In Asset Catalogs

SVGs can now be used as assets for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS apps. Learn more about this exciting new feature in this awesome article.

bjango.com • Share

50 Shades Of Dark Mode Gray

Dark mode isn’t just about white text on black backgrounds but a handful of shades of gray give the app some depth. This post analyzes the dark mode palettes of 6 popular apps.

codeburst.io • Share

The Comeback Of Fun In Visual Design

With the redesign of macOS 11 Big Sur, Apple has made many interface changes and updated the appearance of apps. This is an exciting blog post on reemergence of fun in visual design.

applypixels.com • Share

Top 5 Mobile Interaction Designs Of June 2020

This June 2020 edition delivers five new mobile interaction designs to pique your creativity, even if you’re stuck inside on summer days during the pandemic.

blog.proto.io • Share

BLM Inspired Animations

Amazing Inspirational #BLM Animations & illustrations for Concept Designers.

medium.muz.li • Share

Libraries

Cirrus

Simple CloudKit sync for Codable Swift models.

github.com • Share

mockingbird

Simplify software testing, by easily mocking any system using HTTP/HTTPS, allowing a team to test and develop against a service that is not complete or is unstable or just to reproduce planned/edge cases.

github.com • Share