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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 #750
Recently when distributing staging releases of my app PastePal via GitHub release or Google Drive, people had hard time opening it
The displayed error is
You do not have permission to open the application
The more verbose error when …
Issue #749
Some apps want to support alternative app icons in Settings where user can choose to update app icon. Here’s some must do to make it work, as of Xcode 12.2
CFBundleIcons with both CFBundlePrimaryIcon and …Issue #748
There is said to be PopUpButtonPickerStyle and MenuPickerStyle but these don’t seem to work.
There’s Menu button it shows a dropdown style. We fake it by fading this and overlay with a button. allowsHitTesting does not work, …
Issue #747
Need to use Coordinator conforming to UITextViewDelegate to apply changes back to Binding
import SwiftUI
import UIKit
struct MyTextView: UIViewRepresentable {
@Binding
var text: String
final class Coordinator: NSObject, …Issue #746
From iOS 13, the default is to support multiple scene, so the the old UIApplicationDelegate lifecycle does not work. Double check your Info.plist for UIApplicationSceneManifest key
<key>UIApplicationSceneManifest</key> …Issue #745
I used to use selection with Binding where wrappedValue is optional, together with tag in SwiftUI for macOS, and it shows current selection
@Binding
var selection: Tag? = .all
List(section: $selection) {
Text("All")
. …Issue #744
As someone who builds lots of apps, I try to find quick ways to do things. One of them is to avoid repetitive and cumbersome APIs. That’s why I built Anchors to make Auto Layout more convenient, Omnia to add missing extensions. The next …
Issue #743
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Issue #742
Auto Layout has been around since macOS 10.7 and iOS 6.0 as a nicer way to do layouts over the old resizing masks. Besides some rare cases when we need to manually specify origins and sizes, Auto Layout is the preferred way to do …
Issue #740
How to gain product ideas?
Scratch your own itch. If you don’t have any itch to scratch, stop here. This is awkward. Go travelling. Go exploring the world. The world always has problems and needs solution. Image
Build any …
Issue #739
New program reduces App Store commission to 15 percent for small businesses earning up to $1 million per year
Issue #738
Just found out the book Deep Work by Cal Newport and it has some interesting guidelines Here’s a very good summary of the book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTaJhjQHcf8&ab_channel=ProductivityGame
Issue #737
Use resizingMode of .tile with a tile image from https://www.transparenttextures.com/
Image("transparentTile")
.resizable(capInsets: .init(), resizingMode: .tile)
.scaleEffect(2)
.aspectRatio(contentMode: .fit)
. …Issue #736
struct MyWebView: NSViewRepresentable {
let url: URL
@Binding
var isLoading: Bool
func makeCoordinator() -> Coordinator {
Coordinator(parent: self)
}
func makeNSView(context: Context) -> WKWebView { …Issue #735
From my previous post How to use flexible frame in SwiftUI we know that certain views have different frame behaviors. 2 of them are .overlay and GeometryReader that takes up whole size proposed by parent.
By default GeometryReader takes up …
Issue #734
In SwiftUI there are fixed frame and flexible frame modifiers.
Use this method to specify a fixed size for a view’s width, height, or both. If you only …
Issue #733
NSTextView has this handy method to make scrollable NSTextView NSTextView.scrollableTextView(). The solution is to get to the responder outside enclosing NSScrollView, in my case it is the SwiftUI hosting view
class DisabledScrollTextView: …Issue #732
Use NSMutableAttributedString and add attribute for whole range
let a: NSAttributedString
let m: NSMutableAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(attributedString: a)
let range = NSRange(location: 0, length: a.length)
m.addAttribute(. …Issue #731
Sometimes we don’t want to show progress view right away
HUDProgressView()
.transition(
AnyTransition.asymmetric(
insertion: AnyTransition.opacity.animation(Animation.default.delay(1)),
removal: …Issue #730
Use NSTextField with maximumNumberOfLines
import AppKit
import SwiftUI
struct AttributedText: NSViewRepresentable {
let attributedString: NSAttributedString
init(_ attributedString: NSAttributedString) {
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