Apr 30, 2021

Swift Discovery - Issue #5

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Good day to you my friend. Welcome to another issue of Swift Discovery 👋

News

Swift 5.4 Released!

Swift 5.4 is now officially released! This release contains a variety of language and tooling improvements.

swift.org

Yay Swift 5.4 is finally released. I can’t wait to officially use resultBuilder in my apps. Read the announcement for an overview, and if you want to get more examples about Swift 5.4 be sure to check Paul Hudson What’s new in Swift 5.4 article

Xcode 12.5

Xcode 12.5 includes SDKs for iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, tvOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4, and macOS Big Sur 11.

developer.apple.com

Xcode 12.5 includes SDKs for iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, tvOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4, and macOS Big Sur 11.3 and Swift 5.4 toolchain. The thing that excites me more is that Simulator can now record video and export as GiF, something I needed to use simctl command.

If you want to download Xcode as dmg directly, I can recommend xcoderelease

Reading

Testing iOS Apps

Writing tests in Swift isn’t that hard, lets look at some good practices

merowing.info

I haven’t seen Krzysztof Zabłocki blogs for a while. This article contains some good advices for writing unit tests. From plain XCTest to BDD style.

SwiftUI In Production

We recently shipped a major new feature in SwiftUI while still supporting iOS 12 in our SDK. Here’s what we learned.

pspdfkit.com

I’ve been following Peter Steinberger articles about his SwiftUI journey, and this is sum up of how they use SwiftUI in their real world framework PSPDFKit. Learn the current state of SwiftUI and the caveats you might encounter.

Drop Shadow in SwiftUI

Read about how to drop shadow on any view in SwiftUI, and discover a couple of practical and useful tricks when applying shadows to buttons.

serialcoder.dev

Drop shadow is subtle but very important tool to ensure better design. Learn some shadow modifier attributes in this article by Gabriel Theodoropoulos

Four ways to customize TextFields

SwiftUI is a dream for prototyping and building views: in this article, let’s see how we can customize a TextField.

fivestars.blog

SwiftUI has some built-in text field styles conforming to TextFieldStyle protocol. Learn other different ways you can customize text fields including introspection with Federico Zanetello

Getting Ready for App Tracking Transparency

Learn how to get user’s permission to track them or to access their device’s IDFA by using the AppTrackingTransparency framework in iOS 14.5.

swiftsenpai.com

Starting iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, and tvOS 14.5. With the upcoming public release, all apps must use the AppTrackingTransparency framework to request the user’s permission to track them or to access their device’s advertising identifier. Apple has been pushing this for quite some time since last year WWDC, learn some details from Lee Kah Seng

How to create a Conditional View Modifier in SwiftUI

A Conditional View Modifier can be created using a custom extension on View. Combined with a Boolean extension we simplify our SwiftUI logic.

www.avanderlee.com

Modifier is a core feature in SwiftUI to apply styling in your view and view hierarchy. One missing guide is how to conditionally apply it. Learn in this article by Antoine for different ways and best practices to do it. From run time to platform check. But please be aware by the performance cost as conditional degrades SwiftUI diffing power

Open Source

TextBuilder: Like a SwiftUI ViewBuilder, but for Text

Like a SwiftUI ViewBuilder, but for Text.

github.com

With resultBuilder you can be as creative as you want to make more SwiftUI builder style API. Here is an example where it shines in creating attributed strings. Created by David Roman

Video

Getting Started with Combine

In this video, we’re going to explore the Combine Framework. In this Combine Framework tutorial, we’ll be looking at Practical examples in SwiftUI & UIKit. W…

www.youtube.com

A very in-depth walkthrough for Combine, made by tundsdev. Learn the practical examples for using Combine in SwiftUI & UIKit, along with many other fundamental concepts like Publisher, Subscription

Indie

How to Design a Great App Icon: What You Need to Know

Learn how to create the perfect app icon, from design considerations to the tools you need, to the building process.

www.shopify.ie

The icon is the most important visual element to your app. Learn how to design perfect app icon with recommended tools, by Michael Flarup. This is not about code, but design is as important too.

‎Timemator: Time Tracking

Timemator is a powerful, beautiful yet easy-to-use time tracking app for any professional who wants to keep track of working hours and revenue.

apps.apple.com

A very beautiful time tracking app by Gleb Kotov, you might have seen countless number of time tracking apps before, but for Timemator you can’t forget at least from the cool app icon

‎Coffee Cups: Barista Recipes

Immerse yourself in coffee with barista style recipes, news and insights. Discover the subtle changes to traits that alter the taste of your coffee and learn about the beans behind the brew.

apps.apple.com

A perfect app for all coffee lovers by Nick Nikeforou. Getting to know the ingredients for all types of coffee and how to make your own. I also love the overall coffee color theme.

Until next time

Thanks for reading, hope you discover something interesting. May your code continue to compile, and have a great weekend.

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