AppCoda Weekly - AppCoda Weekly - Issue #214

AppCoda Weekly - Issue #214

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Just a quick update on the SwiftUI companion guide. Our beginner book focuses on teaching you to develop a real world iOS app using UIKit. We are now working on a SwiftUI companion guide that shows you how to build the same demo app with SwiftUI. This guide will be bundled in the professional package. If you’ve purchased the iOS 14 version of the professional package before, you will receive the guide for free. Stay tuned.

Regards,

Simon

Tutorials

Redux-Like State Container In SwiftUI. Connectors.

Learn more about a state container that holds the whole app state in a single place. You can use this approach in your apps and in new projects.

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Custom SwiftUI View Styles

When building new SwiftUI components, it’s common to offer variants for different purposes/screens. This tutorial shows you how to manage such variants via styles set in SwiftUI’s environment.

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Creating A Webcam Utility App For MacOS In SwiftUI

Did you ever have to share your screen and camera together? In this article see how to code your own webcam utility app for macOS in SwiftUI.

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Does Swift Enum Retain Its Associated Value

The title of this post poses an easy question that you might overlook. Learn this simple fact together in this article.

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Swift—Closures Made Very Simple

Closures and completion handlers are very important concepts to master. This guide aims to make them as simple as possible for you to learn.

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Nil-Null-Mess In Objective-C And Swift

Dealing with nullability in Objective-C can be a mess, and this mess can carry over to Swift when bridging. This post talks about the different “kinds” of nullability with practical examples and situations from the real world.

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Useful Extensions For CollectionView And Compositional Layout

Dive in this post to know how, with a few extensions, you can make working with CollectionViews and Compositional Layout a lot cleaner.

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Re-Enabling The iOS Simulator Slow Animations Shortcut

The iOS simulator slow animations shortcut is no longer available in Xcode 12. Find out how to re-enable it with a custom shortcut.

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XCTest Tips And Tricks That Can Level Up Your Swift Testing

Here’s some of Joe Masilotti’s favorite XCTest tips and tricks that he has picked up over the past few years of testing Swift code.

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What’s New In Swift 5.4?

Go through this post to know all the new additions of important new features and refinements in Swift 5.4.

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XCTExpectFailure: Expected Test Failures Explained With Code Examples

Take a look at XCTExpectFailure which allows you to configure assertions as expected to fail while continue to run other expectations and is a benefit for refactoring.

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SwiftUI Container Relative Shape

SwiftUI has lots of ways to create rounded rectangles but what if you want to match the corner radius of a widget? Apple added ContainerRelativeShape to iOS 14 for that purpose and you can explore it in this article.

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Managing Self And Cancellable References When Using Combine

Learn how to avoid common memory-related issues when working with self and cancellable references within the context of Combine.

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A SwiftUI Custom Alert Using ViewModifiers And Transitions

This blog post shows a SwiftUI custom alert using ViewModifiers and transitions that you can try in your upcoming projects.

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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. Now it covers new features in iOS 14 like grid layout and animation. We are going to add more new content to the book. And you will get the new update for free.

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UI/ UX

Applying White Space In UI Design

Good UI design is the thoughtful application of white space at all scales of an interface. Explore these 8 practical tips, with examples for an interface that is harmonious, legible, and, above all, effective and easy to use.

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UI Design Trends For Web And Mobile We Start 2021 With

Take a look at trends in UI/UX design for websites and mobile applications in the beginning of 2021, packed with diverse UI design examples.

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Glassmorphic Visual Hierarchy — 4 Practical Tips

Glassmorphism is a trend in visual design. Discover how to handle glass elements in more complex interfaces and learn how to set up right Visual Hierarchy.

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UI & UX Micro-Tips: Volume One

When creating efficient, and beautiful UIs for your next project sometimes it takes only the smallest adjustments to help quickly improve the designs you’re trying to create. This collection of handy tips will help improve your designs instantly.

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