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The articles produced for Hacking with Swift+ are all new and exclusive to subscribers, but after subscribing for 18 months you'll also gain free online access to over a dozen of my books. This means your subscription grows as you do, making Hacking with Swift+ the largest and most comprehensive subscription around.

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When you subscribe with at least three seats, all members of your team gain immediate access to the Hacking with Swift reading library, rather than waiting 18 months – that's over a dozen of my books to maximise your team's learning.

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Every Hacking with Swift+ subscriber is invited to join my private monthly live streams on YouTube, where I build a complete app from scratch while answering questions along the way. This is your chance to get involved and explore projects being written live, and these streams are always hugely popular.

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If you're an absolute beginner you should start with my free 100 Days of SwiftUI course, which teaches you the fundamentals of Swift and SwiftUI. However, Hacking with Swift+ includes complete solutions to all the checkpoints and milestones in the 100 Days of SwiftUI series, making it the perfect companion as you're learning.

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Here's a sample of what's waiting for you…


When would you choose an environment object over an observed object?

1:59

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

When would you choose an environment object over an observed object?

This might sound like a trivial property wrappers question testing your factual knowledge, but really it’s an architectural decision: what are the advantages and disadvantages of each, and when do they matter?

Synchronous vs asynchronous

1:30:50

EVENTS

Synchronous vs asynchronous

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.

Why opaque return types are so important

12:19

ADVANCED SWIFT

Why opaque return types are so important

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.

Expanding lists and iPad sidebars

1:21:46

EVENTS

Expanding lists and iPad sidebars

In this part we’ll be looking at upgrades to SwiftUI’s List view that let us expand and collapse rows, then try out the iPadOS sidebar style.

Simple SwiftUI, part 1: SimpleToDo and SimpleScores

1:45:22

LIVE STREAMS

Simple SwiftUI, part 1: SimpleToDo and SimpleScores

In this article we’re going to build two simple SwiftUI projects back to back, as part of a new initiative to create easily accessible sample projects for learners.

Checkpoint 8

7:05

SOLUTIONS

Checkpoint 8

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…

Tinting our clouds

18:43

REMAKING WEATHER

Tinting our clouds

Now that we have a working day/night cycle, we’re going to follow that up with a subtle but beautiful effect: we’ll dynamically tint our clouds so they glow with sunrise and sunset, and look darker at night time.

Cleaning up Core Data

22:30

ULTIMATE PORTFOLIO APP

Cleaning up Core Data

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.

Tap Sudoku

1:21:24

LIVE STREAMS

Tap Sudoku

In final stream in this miniseries about making games with SwiftUI, we’re going to create a mini sudoku game from scratch. It’s pretty packed, but a fantastic starting point for your own projects!

Rendering a bar chart

24:57

RENDERING CHARTS IN SWIFTUI

Rendering a bar chart

Bar charts are one of the simplest and most common ways of representing data visually, and are often taught to kids at a young age. In this article I’ll show you how easy it is to render bar charts in SwiftUI, and show you various customization options to bring those charts to life.

What are the main differences between classes and structs in Swift?

3:56

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

What are the main differences between classes and structs in Swift?

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.

Binary trees

33:11

DATA STRUCTURES

Binary trees

We already looked at trees, where each node can have zero or more children, and now I want to look at a specialized version called binary trees, where each node has zero, one, or two children. In particular we’re looking to look at how these lead to binary search trees and the remarkable performance advantages they can bring.

How do you create your UI layouts – storyboards or in code?

2:06

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

How do you create your UI layouts – storyboards or in code?

Unless either you or your interviewer is deeply opinionated, this question is not about making you argue the case for one rather than the other, but instead to give you scope to discuss the relative pros and cons of each.

Creating a spaceship operator

8:47

INTERMEDIATE SWIFT

Creating a spaceship operator

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.

Ping Pong

1:46:18

LIVE STREAMS

Ping Pong

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…

Getting the most from Canvas

23:20

ADVANCED SWIFTUI

Getting the most from Canvas

SwiftUI’s Canvas view is an extremely fast and efficient way to render custom graphics, but it’s also powerful – if you know what you’re doing you can unlock a huge amount of extra functionality to get the exact effect you’re looking for. Let’s look at six techniques here…

What is the difference between the Float, Double, and CGFloat data types?

3:36

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

What is the difference between the Float, Double, and CGFloat data types?

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.

Patch Match

1:32:37

LIVE STREAMS

Patch Match

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!

What does the @Published property wrapper do?

1:52

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

What does the @Published property wrapper do?

A great answer should introduce property wrappers, then explain what @Published does, give some examples, compare it against @State, then bring in any extra real-world knowledge you can add around nuances or complexities.

Performance: the art of doing as little as possible

1:04:44

EVENTS

Performance: the art of doing as little as possible

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…

 
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