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In this part we’ll work through another task to help you try out labels in Journeys, then move on to explore scaled metrics and the beginnings of matched geometry effects.
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.
This question is really trying to get a grip on your knowledge of functional programming, without getting into the murkier territory of functors, monads, and category theory.
This is another example of a question where exclusively picking one over the other makes you look inexperienced – software development is often fuzzy, and acknowledging that complexity is a mark of experience rather than a weakness.
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.
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.
To demonstrate the core features of SwiftData in a practical way, we're going to build an app called Gusto, which tracks restaurants you’ve visited and what you thought thought of them. This gives us plenty of room to explore designing data models, handling data migrations, and more.
UPDATED: Parsing data into your app is probably the single most common task any iOS developer needs to do, so in this article we’ll start to build out an Awards screen using JSON.
In this stream we're going to build a website in Swift, using a free, open-source framework I produced called Ignite. It's designed to be familiar for SwiftUI developers, so hopefully you can see the appeal!
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!
In this stream we’re going to build an app to help visualize animation curves. That means combining SwiftUI and Swift Charts to create something simple but beautiful – this leverages a real range of techniques at once!
In this stream we’re going to build an app to help folks learn something, like a language or other important terminology. It’s flashcards, but with a twist: we’ll be using widgets, so they learn right from their Home Screen.
In this stream we’re going to build a tiny macOS app that stores a notes scratchpad, so the user has instant access to a safe place to store some text. Our first draft will be trivial, but we’ll add important features with a little extra work.
This sounds like a trick question because so many people rail against singletons, but the real challenge is actually providing a good answer – places where singletons actually work.
So much of our job is about downloading JSON data, decoding it using Codable
, then presenting it – it’s a core skill. But it’s common to see folks rely on huge libraries such as Alamofire, or get mixed up with URLSession
. So, in this article we’ll look at how to rewrite common networking code using Combine, then add some generics to make it truly flexible.
Apple’s Foundation framework makes it easy for us to convert any kind of measurement into any other kind of measurement. In this article I’ll show you how to make the most of these APIs, but also why it’s so useful that they work with Swift features such as operator overloading, plus important protocols such as Comparable
, Equatable
, and Codable
.
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.
In this stream we'll build an app to locate food banks near to users, so they can donate needed items. This uses an external API that's a little bit inconsistent, so we'll need to explore Codable
alongside maps, networking, and more.
You've seen how we can use RealityView
to create shapes by hand, applying colors and textures as needed. However, for more advanced work you should take a look at Reality Composer Pro: a free tool that ships with Xcode, specifically aimed at helping us create RealityKit assets.
UPDATED: Although many apps work great when paid for up front, many more work better when using a freemium model – you get lots of downloads of a free app, then charge for some kind of premium service. In this article we’re going to limit our app unless the user has paid for an unlock, but we’ll be using a flexible approach you can adapt easily.
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