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This challenge asks you to let users switch map styles, show alerts for authentication errors, and create a view model for EditView
. Let’s tackle it now…
In this stream we're going to build another game, but this time targeting visionOS. Although the game itself would work fine in 2D, in 3D it's really gorgeous because we'll be using an immersive space – I hope you're able to give it a try!
If you ever wondered why we write func
and var
rather than function
and variable
, it’s simple: programmers love being lazy! In this article we’re going to look at a handful of ways to make your projects faster by doing as little work as possible, just the way I like it…
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.
This is a two-part question, and it’s a tricky one because ideally you’ll explain the problem, outline your approach, and provide a real-world example of you doing all that in practice.
This challenge asks you add a photo credit to resort images, handle loading and saving of favorite resorts, then add sorting options to the main listing. Let’s tackle it now…
The technical answer here feels a bit like Swift 101, but as with so many good answers the real value comes when you’re able to describe places where you use them and where they can cause problems.
Previously we looked at how to create basic button styles that unify your app’s styling efficiently. In this follow-on article we’re going to explore three completely different button styles that show off just what SwiftUI is capable of: glossy marble buttons, classic fantasy buttons, and sci-fi buttons.
SwiftUI’s ProgressView
gives us control over showing determinate or indeterminate progress, but it’s a bit dull – just a thin line and an activity spinner. Fortunately, we also get the ProgressViewStyle
protocol so we can build entirely custom progress views, and in this article I’ll show you how it’s done.
This challenge asks you to make decorative decorations, make the rows in iExpense read more smoothly with VoiceOver, then conduct your own review of Moonshot and fix it up. Let’s tackle it now…
In this part we finish by directly comparing async let
, tasks, and task groups, then move on to the final boss of Swift concurrency: actors.
In this article we’re going to build a small macOS menu bar app that acts as a tiny calendar: it tells the user what events are in their calendar for today, tomorrow, and later in the week.
Large parts of Apple’s Weather app is about bringing little sparks of joy to an otherwise very serious, fact-driven experience, but none more so than the random little meteors that fly by on starry nights. They move so fast so you might be tempted to skip over them, but I think it’s definitely worth exploring and having some fun with!
We’ve added quite a bit of iCloud functionality in the last few tutorials, so before we’re done we need to clean up what we have so it’s a solid foundation we can build on. To start with, that means tackling removing data as well as we handling adding data.
Swift’s optionals are a real power feature of the language, but without direct compiler support they would be quite onerous. Optional chaining is one part of that support, so be prepared to answer exactly what part it plays.
When it comes to learning operator overloading, there is one operator that Swift lacks, that many other languages have, and is genuinely useful. In this article I’ll show you how to build the spaceship operator in Swift – it’s surprisingly easy, and useful too.
This is the kind of question that helps distinguish between junior developers and intermediate developers, so take your time to answer it and if possible leverage your full range of knowledge to explain any extra details.
We're going to look at one last useful SwiftUI feature called ornaments, which help us create toolbars and other views beyond our main content. After that, it's time to into the third dimension…
This challenge asks you to support the user’s preferred currency symbol, style your expenses somehow, then split the list into two sections. Let’s tackle it now…
UPDATED: Quick Actions let users long-press on our app’s icon on the Home Screen to show a list of actions they can perform immediately. In this article we’re going to add a quick action to create a new issue in one step – it’s more work than you might think!
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