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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!
UPDATED: Right now we trigger a save when our user takes a dramatic action such as adding a tag or deleting an issue, but we don’t want to trigger a save for every letter they press while editing an issue title. So, how can we make sure data is safe while also avoiding too much work?
In this article we’re going to build an app to track how much water the user has consumed today, then tie it into a widget so they place a gentle reminder right on their Home Screen.
Before we start looking at the data changes this year, there are still more major SwiftUI changes to go over: phase animators and visual effects.
How can you be first in line when a website announces important changes? Simple: make your computer watch for changes automatically! In this article we’ll build a macOS app that can watch an arbitrary list of URLs for changes, and will notify us when something changes…
In this introductory video we start by walking through all the main changes introduced with Swift 5.5, without touching on concurrency – that still leaves a heck of a lot!
UPDATED: Now that we’ve designed a basic awards UI, we can bring it to life with some Core Data queries to determine which awards have actually been earned.
This seems like a simple question, but a truly great answer means not only knowing the differences, but also knowing why they matter – anyone can remember a bunch of bullet points, but it takes more thought to explain what it all means in practice.
Now that you’ve had a taste of how async/await code looks, let’s break down what we just saw and examine how asynchronous functions work behind the scenes, and how we can move over to async let
with surprising ease.
I’ve written about operator overloading previously, not least in my book Pro Swift, but in the article I want to go into more depth on the places where it’s really useful – and the places where it’s not such a good idea.
So far we’ve tried very hard to look for ways we can implement platform adjustments and workarounds to enable maximum code reuse between iOS and macOS, but now we need to go further because getting the Home view to work requires something quite custom.
This challenge asks you to go back and adjust both project 1 and project 2 based on what you learned, then try your hand at creating a custom view modifier. Let’s tackle it now…
This challenge asks you to adjust FilteredList
in three ways: make it accept a string predicate, make it accept an enum predicate, then make it accept an array of sort descriptors for the managed object it uses. Let’s tackle it now…
This question is partly technical, partly about keeping up with Swift, and partly about application, and and I suggest you tackle it in that order.
UPDATED: We’ve just put in place the last major code to complete part one of this app. Let’s clean up just a tiny bit, then look over what we’ve made so far.
In this part we’re going to wrap up our look at the new UICollectionView
features, then move on to exploring the new UIAction
and menu systems for buttons and more.
UPDATED: Shortcuts let users access quick commands from our app elsewhere in the system, as well as chaining them to build complex commands, or even asking Siri to trigger one directly. In this article we’re going to add one to our app, and I think you’ll be amazed how little work it takes!
Checkpoint 6 of Swift for Complete Beginners asks you to create a struct to model a car, adding properties and methods that make sense. Let’s solve that now…
In this stream we’re going to build a two-player word game where players must make unique words using the same grid – it doesn’t take much to get started, but getting it polished is trickier!
A sorted array is one that retains a correct sort order no matter how and when you add items. Although this sounds simple enough to implement, in this article you’ll see that it’s actually quite fun to explore because there are a number of interesting challenges we’ll face.
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