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This early challenge day asks you to build a converter app that’s able to move between any two similar units, such as kilometers and miles. Let’s solve it now, then we’ll take it further, and then we’ll take it even further…
That completes all the code for this course, but before we're done it's important to run through everything to make sure there are no outstanding bugs or warnings, and that our code is as polished as we can make it.
Have you ever wondered how string interpolation works in Swift? It's another important feature of the standard library, and even gets extensive use in SwiftUI! Let's dig in…
Checkpoint 4 of Swift for Complete Beginners asks you to find the integer square root an input number within a certain range, or throw errors if you can’t do it. Let’s solve that now…
iOS 15 introduced a great many customization points to give us more control over list rows, text rendering, keyboard focus, and more, and these are all covered here.
In this stream we’re going to build a SwiftUI app that lets the user experiment with regular expressions: searching for patterns, matching groups, and even generating Swift code.
Checkpoint 8 of Swift for Complete Beginners asks you to design a protocol to represent a building, then create two structs conforming to it. Let’s solve that now…
Did you know it's possible for two things to be considered equal even when they aren't the same? Let's look at how hashing works in Swift, how we can tweak it for performance, what problems it can cause, and most importantly how to make sure those problems never strike your code.
Getting observable objects right is one of the keys to having a smooth experience with SwiftUI, but getting them wrong is a sure-fire recipe for massive performance problems no matter what platform you’re writing for.
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!
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.
Just like UIKit before it, SwiftUI doesn’t come with built-in support for loading remote images, which makes it hard to get data from the internet. In this article I’ll show you how you can build a custom view that can fetch image from the internet, while also showing other images for different states.
Most of the time the built-in iOS controls are great, but sometimes you want something just a little different. In this article I’m going to walk you through how you can take complete control over the way toggle switches work in SwiftUI, providing custom rendering and interactions.
Even after writing stacks of unit tests, chances are your test coverage is still only around 50%. Those units tests are really important, but if you really want great test coverage you need to add some UI tests and that’s exactly what we’re going to work on here.
In this article we’re going to build a small drawing app for iPad, but along the way you’ll see how to load and save documents into iCloud, add support for undo, and more.
Swift doesn't support abstract classes, but sometimes we really need them. Helpfully, we can find a solution of sorts right inside Swift's own source code…
SwiftUI’s ButtonStyle
protocol is a great way to reuse designs across your app, to get a consistent look and feel everywhere. But they have one significant problem with animations, and in this article I’ll show you that problem in action, then walk you through how to fix it in a flexible way.
I already introduced how the internals of optionals work, including how they use conditional conformance and how to avoid infinitely sized structs. In this video I’m going to go further as we look at how our knowledge of Optional
can be translated to Result
, why it’s so important that optionals are functors and monads, and more.
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.
In this article we’re going to look at the reduce()
function, which allows us to boil down multiple values to a single value as a way of summing up or summarizing a sequence.
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