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Issue #715
I remember this time last year in December 2019, I spent almost every single bit of my free time on Puma because I want a Swift friendly version of fastlane that suits my need and leverages Swift 5 features.
Here’s my review of my …
Issue #998
Traditionally, if we wanted to quickly test a function or a piece of logic, we would open a separate Playground file (.playground).
From Xcode 26 we can have access to the new #Playground macro in Swift 6.2. This allows us to declare a …
Issue #997
An interesting feature in iOS 26 is the ability to create morph “Liquid Glass” effects, where views with the .glassEffect() modifier can fluidly morph into one another. This is achieved using GlassEffectContainer and the …
Issue #996
When creating widgets for iOS, especially those that need user input to be useful, one common challenge is guiding the user to configure them. Before iOS 18, a user would add a widget, but then would have to know to long-press it and …
Issue #995
With iOS 18, SwiftUI introduces matchedTransitionSource and navigationtransition as a powerful new way to create zoom animations between views. This allows you to smoothly transition from a small view to a larger, more detailed view, …
Issue #994
With iOS 18, Apple introduced a powerful new tool for creating beautiful, dynamic backgrounds: MeshGradient. Forget simple two-color gradients; mesh gradients let you blend a whole grid of colors together smoothly, creating stunning, …
Issue #993
Before iOS 17, if you wanted to animate a number changing, SwiftUI would just fade the old number out and fade the new one in. It worked, but it wasn’t very exciting.
Here’s how that looked:
struct OldCounterView: View {
@ …Issue #992
In the past, making your screen update when data changed in UIKit meant writing extra code, either with didSet, Combine or some other callbacks. Now, it’s automatic.
With the latest iOS 26 updates, UIKit can automatically watch your …
Issue #991
When building apps in SwiftUI or React, we often need to store values that change — like a counter, user input, or a list of items.
To do this:
useState.@State and @StateObject.But here’s something cool: …
Issue #990
In many popular apps like LinkedIn, Reddit, we can tap again on a bar bar item to scroll to top. Although this behavior is not built in by iOS, we can implement that very easily.
The idea is to keep track of previous selection so we can …
Issue #989
In Swift 6, Apple introduced stricter rules to help make your code safer when using concurrency (like async, await, Task, and actor). These rules check that types used in concurrent code are safe to share across threads.
Types that are …
Issue #988
When working with Core Data, there are times we have optional NSManagedObject to pass around. These objects conform to ObservableObject, and in SwiftUI we can’t @ObservedObject on optional ObservableObject
One way we can workaround …
Issue #986
When using TextField in SwiftUI List on Mac, it has unwanted background color when focused. We can turn it off using introspection or a custom TextField wrapper
TextField("Search", text: $searchText)
.introspect(.textField, on: …Issue #985
During GitHub Universe 2024, GitHub announced that GitHub Copilot code completion in Xcode is available in public preview. The project is open source at CopilotForXcode
GitHub Copilot has been available as VS Code extension for a while, …
Issue #984
The WidgetBundle lets us expose multiple widgets from a single widget extension
It uses WidgetBundleBuilder to constructs a widget bundle’s body.
In iOS 18, if we include ControlWidget then we need to check iOSApplicationExtension iOS 18. …
Issue #983
In iOS 18, we can make Control Widget in Widget extension
import WidgetKit
import SwiftUI
@available(iOS 18.0, *)
struct BookControlWidget: ControlWidget {
var body: some ControlWidgetConfiguration {
StaticControlConfiguration …Issue #982
If you’re using NSFetchedResultsController in Core Data, it might take up a lot of memory, especially when working with large datasets. To keep your app running smoothly, it’s important to manage memory efficiently
Issue #981
NSDragOperation represent which operations the dragging source can perform on dragging items.
There are several types of drag operations, and each one has a different purpose and visual cue.
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NSCollectionView, available since macOS 10.5+, is a good choice to present a list of content. Let’s make a SwiftUI wrapper for NSCollectionView with diffable data source and compositional layout
Issue #979
When dealing with user input, such as in an autocomplete component, it’s common to implement debouncing to reduce the number of API calls and improve the user experience.
React Query’s useQuery hook makes it easy to manage the …
Issue #978
From iOS 17, SwiftUI Charts has chartGesture, together with SpatialTapGesture we can check tap location and convert that to Charts value
Chart {}
.chartGesture { chart in
SpatialTapGesture()
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