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Okay, so the lightning effect took a lot of work, but now we’re on to something much easier: adding some sunshine. This is place ripe for experimentation, but we can get something good with remarkably little work.
In this stream we're going to build an app that visualizes sorting algorithms, to help learners understand how they work. This requires some algorithm coding wrapped up in a surprisingly small amount of SwiftUI, so let's get to it!
I’ve had a whole bunch more questions sent in from readers, covering Core Data, property wrappers, localization, and more, so let’s dive into them with some code examples.
In this part we’ll start a second project that uses a whole new range of SwiftUI features, including TextEditor
, multiple scenes, ColorPicker
, and more.
This is one of those questions that sounds simple, but gives you a huge amount of scope to explore various tangents based on your own area of expertise.
If I could make one question required in all iOS developer job interviews, it would be this one, because it’s a fantastic way to help folks relax, and lets them cherry pick whatever code they think will be most of interest.
Checkpoint 7 of Swift for Complete Beginners asks you to create a class hierarchy to store various types of animals, including properties, methods, and initializers. Let’s solve that now…
If you watch a flock of birds you’ll see it exhibits all sorts of complex behaviors as they swarm around in the air – they often stay together but not too close, they move in the same direction but also seem to change direction at the same time. In this article we will create flocking behavior in SwiftUI, using Craig Reynolds’ classic boids algorithm.
We’re attaching an owner name to projects, but right now it’s always hard-coded to “TwoStraws”. In this step we’re going to fix that using Sign in with Apple, which authenticates users securely. This needs to be done carefully, but the end result is really nice as you’ll see!
UPDATED: In previous tests we relied upon our sample data creating 5 tags and 50 issues, but that isn’t set in stone right now – it’s an implementation detail, meaning that it’s a behavior that happens to be the case but isn’t explicitly guaranteed. This is a common cause of bugs, so in this article we’re going to write tests for our development code!
UPDATED: Now that we’ve got a basic draft of our sidebar working, we can proceed to the next level of our user interface: the content view, showing a list of all the issues they selected, then making sure user changes are synchronized across devices.
So far our home view has simply been a host for adding test data, but that changes now: we’re going to make the home view a summary of all their project progress, plus the most important items coming up next.
In the first part of this tutorial we looked at the underlying problem that type erasure is trying to solve, and tried out Swift’s approach using AnySequence
. In this second part we’re going to adapt Swift’s own solution to get real type erasure for our own code.
This sounds like it ought to be straightforward, but usually there’s an ulterior motive here: are you able to work well as part of a team?
In this stream we'll build an app I originally designed for my kids, to help them build confidence in mathematics. Along the way we'll meet a couple of great iOS 17 APIs, explore styling in SwiftUI, and more!
In this stream we're going to build a SwiftUI and SwiftData app that monitors how long Xcode takes to build your projects, then uses that to calculate how much time and money you would save by upgrading to a newer Mac.
UPDATED: Core Data’s optionals are quite different from Swift’s optionals, which makes them a little uncomfortable to work with. In this article I’m going to show you two ways of fixing this, which will help clear up our code nicely.
Checkpoint 1 of Swift for Complete Beginners asks you to create an Xcode playground able to convert any value of Celsius into Fahrenheit, then print the result. Let’s solve that now…
In the previous step we added the ability to upload projects and items to iCloud, then used the iCloud Dashboard to check the data had arrived safely. In this step we’re going to load shared projects, and let users browse them.
In this article we’re going to build a tool that designs particle systems for SwiftUI apps, all built on top of the TimelineView
and Canvas
that were added in SwiftUI. I think you’ll really be amazed how fast this comes together!
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