AppCoda Weekly - AppCoda Weekly - Issue #197

AppCoda Weekly - Issue #197

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Have you upgraded your iPhone to iPhone 12/12 Pro? I haven’t bought one yet. But we are updating our beginner book for iOS 14 and make sure all the demo apps work great on this new iPhone, plus in Dark Mode. We target to release the update next month.

As always, hope you will enjoy the collection of iOS tutorials.

Talk soon,

Simon

Tutorials

The Modern Ways To Reload Your Table And Collection View Cells

Reloading NSDiffableDataSourceSnapshot on table and collection view is not as straightforward as you think. Find out more in this article.

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Do Protocols Break Single Responsibility Principle?

Why is SRP appreciated in the first place? Why do you apply it to your functions and data structures? What SRP has to do with side effects in protocols? What are “side effects” in the context of protocols? These are the questions answered in this post.

dmtopolog.com • Share

@Warn_unqualified_access

This article focuses on a lesser know, older, but equally useful attribute, @warn_unqualified_access that can help us write better and clearer Swift code.

fivestars.blog • Share

Reduce Boilerplate Code With An Automatic Synthesis Of Equatable And Hashable Conformance

Equatable and Hashable are two essential protocols in the Swift world. Learn an old Swift feature that is very helpful if you want to make your types conform to those protocols.

sarunw.com • Share

Testing Networking Logic In Swift

See how networking code can be tested without needing to introduce complex abstractions within your production code, by using system-provided APIs for overriding and mocking various kinds of requests.

www.swiftbysundell.com • Share

Understanding The Differences Between Your Core Data Model And Managed Objects

You may have noticed that when Xcode generates your classes based on your Core Data model file, most of your managed object’s properties are optional. In this article, you will explore this phenomenon, and know why it happens.

www.donnywals.com • Share

Benchmarking Your App With MetricKit

Explore the implementation of MetricKit which allows you to aggregate and analyze benchmark data on a per-device basis, and not only does it include information on performance and battery usage, but also on exceptions and crash reports.

www.andyibanez.com • Share

Transactions In SwiftUI

Understanding transactions opens new doors for building powerful and reusable view components in SwiftUI. This tutorial talks about transactions, which is a hidden gem of SwiftUI.

swiftwithmajid.com • Share

How To Notarize A Mac App

In this tutorial, you will learn how to notarize your Mac app so you can distribute it from your own website.

www.swiftdevjournal.com • Share

ProcessInfo For Test Data And More

ProcessInfo is a powerful API that is often overlooked when we’re not working on the Command Line. However it can be helpful for many iOS applications, for example to inject consistent data for testing and screenshots, among other things.

blog.timroesner.com • Share

Automatically Pixelate Faces On iOS Using Face Detection With Native Swift Code

This article uses Apple’s native library to create an iOS application that will pixelate faces on any given image.

heartbeat.fritz.ai • Share

8 Common SwiftUI Mistakes - And How To Fix Them

This article walks you through eight common mistakes SwiftUI learners make, and how to fix them.

www.hackingwithswift.com • Share

Generating boilerplate Swift code With GYB

There are a few tools to help you to generate boilerplate Swift code , one of the most flexible of them being GYB.

blog.kulman.sk • Share

Refactoring UIAlertController: Helper Class And Protocol Approaches

Here is a detailed look at two possible approaches to avoid writing boiler plate code over and over.

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