Swift by Sundell - Swift by Sundell Newsletter #30

👋 Hi everyone!

I must say, I’m really happy with how my new article publishing schedule has turned out so far. Now that I’m no longer doing one main article per week, I feel like I can explore so many more topics through shorter, more focused posts, which has really rekindled my enthusiasm for writing.

Hope that you’re finding my articles useful and that you’re enjoying this new format, too. Like always, you’re more than welcome to reach out if you have any feedback, or if there’s a particular topic that you’d like me to cover in the future.

But now, let’s get started with the recap of January’s articles and podcast episodes.

📖 Articles

New articles of various lengths are now continuously posted on Swift by Sundell, often multiple times per week. These articles were published during the past month:

Creating custom query functions using key paths

How key paths can be made much more powerful when used to query and filter collections.

Performing POST and file upload requests using URLSession

How URLSession can be used to perform POST requests and file uploads without any third party libraries.

Validating email addresses using RawRepresentable and NSDataDetector

How to validate email addresses in Swift using a dedicated RawRepresentable type and Foundation’s NSDataDetector API.

Avoiding SwiftUI’s AnyView

How SwiftUI’s AnyView type can often be avoided, and why it might be a good idea to do so.

Accessing a Swift property wrapper’s enclosing instance

How a Swift property wrapper can refer to its enclosing type, and examples of how that capability could be used.

Applying rounded corners to a UIKit or SwiftUI view

How to round the corners of a UIKit or SwiftUI view in various ways.

How to sync the width or height of two SwiftUI views?

Multiple solutions to one of the most commonly faced problems when working with SwiftUI.

🎧 Podcast episodes

The Swift by Sundell podcast is a bi-weekly show featuring special guests from all around the Swift community. You can find it in your podcast player of choice, for example Apple Podcasts or Overcast. These episodes were published during the past month:

89: “Framework and SDK development”, with Ellen Shapiro

On the season five premiere, Ellen Shapiro returned to the show to discuss framework and SDK development, and how that often requires a somewhat different process from app development.

90: “The essence of app architecture”, with Matt Gallagher

Matt Gallagher joined me to discuss how the introduction of SwiftUI and Combine has impacted how apps are architected on Apple’s platforms, and what sort of principles that are good to keep in mind when designing a solid app architecture.

😊 Until next time

That’s it for this edition! I hope you enjoyed this newsletter. I always love to hear your feedback, so feel free to either reply to this email, or contact me on Twitter @johnsundell. I read every single piece of feedback that I get, and I try to reply to as many people as I possibly can.

Thanks for reading! 🚀

- John