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This challenge asks you to upgrade iExpense to use SwiftData, adding sorting and filtering at the same time. Let’s tackle it now…
In part one of this tutorial we looked at how to customize string interpolations on a type-by-type basis, giving you more control over how your code works. In this second part we’ll look at a second powerful use for interpolation: building whole types from scratch.
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.
We're going to build a clone of the Apple News game Quartiles, entirely in SwiftUI. There's a lot to explore, so let's get straight into it!
Opaque return types are a powerful feature in Swift, and are also critically important for writing SwiftUI. In this article I’ll be explaining how they work, and why they give us more power than returning a simple protocol.
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 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.
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.
We’re about to start exploring the many SwiftUI changes introduced this year, but before we’re done with concurrency we have two last techniques to explore.
Typed throws were introduced in Swift 6 to let us handle errors more neatly, and a great way to explore them is with Swift's own source code.
This is particularly important in the world of Apple development because all their major operating systems change every year, Swift sees significant changes two or three times a year, and new devices are shipping regularly.
I’ve had a whole bunch more questions sent in from readers, covering testing, haptics, Spotlight, and more, so let’s dive into them with code examples.
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.
The final major change we’re going to make to our project is to look at how it fits in with the MVVM design pattern. I left this one to last because it’s quite a jump from our previous work and in many respects SwiftUI even fights against it, but I do think it’s worth exploring so you can be sure your code is sound.
Now that we’ve covered stacks and linked lists, queues and deques ought to be easier. In this article we’ll build both data structures in just a few lines of Swift, then explore interesting additions such as contains()
.
This challenge asks you to upgrade the form validation, add a user-facing error, then make the app remember the user's delivery details using UserDefaults
. Let’s tackle it now…
There's a book on team leadership that's so good that I almost consider it a secret. It’s not about programming, or any sort of computing topic. Instead, it’s a book about management and communication. No, scratch that – it’s the best book about management and communication I have ever read.
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.
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…
This challenge asks you to adjust the BetterRest user interface to have sections, a picker, and an always-present bedtime calculation. Let’s tackle it now…
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