AppCoda Weekly - AppCoda Weekly - Issue #217

AppCoda Weekly - Issue #217

By AppCoda Weekly • Issue #217 • View online

This week, we are going to discuss about two quite interesting, related and interconnected concepts: how to scan images and perform text recognition on them.

It might sound like a complicated task, but soon you will find out that this is far from being true. Thanks to Vision framework, performing text scanning and recognition is nowadays a quite straightforward job. If you want to learn more about the implementation, don’t forget to check out the tutorial.

As always, I hope you enjoy reading this newsletter and find the tutorials useful.

Talk soon,

Simon

Tutorials

How to Scan Images and Perform Text Recognition in SwiftUI Using VisionKit

In this tutorial, we will explore the VisionKit framework and show you how to scan documents and perform text recognition in SwiftUI.

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Async/Await In Swift – Rethinking Callbacks And Escaping The Pyramid Of Doom

Asynchronous functions are on their way to Swift, bringing its concurrency facilities up to par with Kotlin and JavaScript. Learn more about them in this article.

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Custom Popup In SwiftUI

Learn how to implement a custom popup, a popover, a sheet, and a snackbar message in SwiftUI with complete code examples.

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Distributing Closed-Source Frameworks With SPM

Take a look at how to distribute closed-source XCFrameworks-based products with the Swift Package Manager.

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Swift Tip: Reuse Code With Snippets In Xcode

Boost your efficiency and avoid manual repetition by creating reusable code snippets in Xcode.

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iOS - Localizing Strings In A Project

Localization is an often overlooked problem but with a couple of neat tricks you can create a setup where developers don’t really need to worry about strings anymore.

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How To Reload The Diffable Section Header

Learn how to effectively reload the expandable section header of a list constructed using the diffable data source. Sample code included.

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Ignoring Invalid JSON Elements When Using Codable

See how elements containing missing or invalid data can be automatically ignored when using Swift’s Codable API to parse JSON.

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Custom HUDs In SwiftUI

Fortunately, Apple has brought SwiftUI, which makes recreating system HUDs not too troublesome. In this article see how you can build one yourseif!

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Understanding SwiftUI's View Type

This article covers the common pitfalls encountered as a result of new opaque return types, where it can be used, and how you can get around its limitations.

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GraphQL In Swift

This post talks about the benefits of GraphQL, and you will learn how to utilize it in Swift.

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Picker View Styles In SwiftUI

Take a look at the different ways you can style a picker view in your SwiftUI project.

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Dependency Inversion As A Driver To Scale Mobile Development

The dependency inversion principle (DIP) is one tool that helps you build cleaner relationships among your software modules. In this post, DIP is presented using atomic modules and is later applied to frameworks.

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Network Requests And REST APIs In iOS With Swift (Protocol-Oriented Approach)

A comprehensive guide to REST APIs and network requests in iOS with a protocol-oriented architecture and without using large networking libraries.

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Programmatic Routing In SwiftUI

Have a look at some of the challenges of doing programmatic routing in SwiftUI and exploring some of the possible solutions

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Re-Creating Apple Photos Layout & Animations With Compositional Layout

See how you can create layout similar to the native Photos app in iOS complete with the transitions.

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Developing Xcode Extensions. Tips And Tricks

This article is based on a journey with developing extensions for Xcode along with some tips and tricks.

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How And When To Use Lazy Collections In Swift

Lazy collections can increase performance if used correctly. Learn how they work, how they compute and result in increased performance.

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Using Link Presentation In iOS Development To Make Visually-Rich Links

There’s a new Link Presentation framework that lets you show the same link presentation available to users in the Messages app.Learn to use this framework to get link metadata, or present a nicer preview of links in your apps.

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