AppCoda Weekly - AppCoda Weekly - Issue #224

AppCoda Weekly - Issue #224

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Earlier this week, Apple officially released Xcode 12.5 which adds the support of iOS 14.5. Have you upgraded your Xcode to the latest version? The new version of Xcode also lets you record videos using simulator and export it as an animated GIF.

Swift 5.4 is released alongside with Xcode 12.5 that comes with new features like Result builders. To try out all the new features, it’s time to upgrade your Xcode.

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

Talk soon,

Simon

Tutorials

Working with Toolbar in SwiftUI

Toolbar has become natively available in SwiftUI starting with iOS 14. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how toolbars are implemented and work in SwiftUI.

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How To Manage Photo Library Permission In iOS

This article shows you how to manage each and every photo authorization status, including the limited access status introduced in iOS 14.

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Managing View State With Combine

You may come across the need to separate some state specific logic into a view model. See how Swift’s Combine framework provides some great property wrappers to ease this transition.

dev.to • Share

Create Publishers For HealthKit

Explore how Combine can be used to implement some HealthKit basic functionalities: requesting access to read user data and querying that data.

isalima.xyz • Share

Styling Localized Strings In Swift

Learn how to render localized strings that contain mixed styling using either UIKit or SwiftUI.

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Creating Basic Configurable Siri Shortcut

The simplest possible tutorial to get you started with Siri Intents so you can get it running and then build upon that because the fewer steps, the fewer issues can happen.

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Saving Data When Your App Quits

A common scenario for iOS and Mac apps is to save data when someone quits the app. You have written a function to save the data. Where do you make the call when the app quits? This article answers that question, both for the SwiftUI app life cycle and the classic AppDelegate life cycle.

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SwiftUI Adaptive Stack View With Equal Distribution

Getting to grips with SwiftUI requires thinking a little different. Here’s an example of the equivalent of an adaptive UIKit stack view with an equal distribution to give views equal width.

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How To Create A Conditional View Modifier In SwiftUI

A Conditional View Modifier can be created using a custom extension on View. Find out how by combining it with a Boolean extension you can simplify your SwiftUI logic.

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Accessibility Actions In SwiftUI

In this week learn how to provide custom accessibility actions for SwiftUI views.

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Every SwiftUI Protocol Explained

How many protocols does SwiftUI define? How many do you know about and actually use? Get the answers to these questions, and more!

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“Recreating The MacOS Genie Effect”

This is the blog post explaining how the macOS Genie Effect works, and how you can build and use a similar animation in your app.

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Making The Most Of TextFields In SwiftUI

In SwiftUI, TextField is the goto View for capturing freeform input from your users. This article provides some observations, tips, and tricks to help you work effectively with TextField.

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UI/ UX

What If Your Designers Want A Baseline Grid On iOS?

The outcome of this post is that aligning to a baseline grid on iOS is possible even though you’re supporting dynamic text.

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Best Practices: Designing Autosuggest Experiences

Go through some best practices recommended for the search bar & autosuggest patterns based on the analysis of user-typed queries & query formulation from about 50+ search bars.

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How To Improve App Settings UX

What techniques ensure effortless settings UX? See how well-designed settings panels allow users to tailor apps to their needs and help companies lower customer-support costs.

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Monsieur Bézier And His Elegant Curves

Find out how to draw Bézier curve, how to apply it within applications, how to write it in code, or who discovered the concept.

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Libraries

DesignDetective

Compare your implementation and design, see how much they match!

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TextBuilder

Text composition in SwiftUI can often be cumbersome, especially when there’s logic affecting its format and content. TextBuilder leverages the power of Swift Result Builders to solve this problem. TextBuilder mimics SwiftUI’s ViewBuilder to make for a familiar experience at the point of use.

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