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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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Here's a sample of what's waiting for you…
58:46
LIVE STREAMS
SortVis
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!
1:28:55
EVENTS
Interacting with 3D objects
Once you have 3D views being displayed, SwiftUI lets you interact with them in a similar way to how we interact with 2D content. Yes, there's an extra step around handling coordinate space because we're now working in 3D, but it's nothing too tricky.
44:34
RECREATING UI
Remaking the clock
Apple’s clock design has gone through a number of iterations over the years (not least for legal reasons!), and in this project we’ll seek to recreate the design used for the Clock app icon as of iOS 16.
52:27
LIVE STREAMS
Simple SwiftUI, part 2: SimpleNews
In this article we’re going to build another simple SwiftUI project to continue the Simple SwiftUI series. This time our goal is to build a news reader built through fetching a remote API.
27:34
CUSTOM SWIFTUI COMPONENTS
Creating a FilteringList to filter a list using text input
Many apps show lots of data in a list, and allow users to filter that list by typing in a text view. In this article we’re going to build that in SwiftUI, then pull it out into a reusable component you can apply anywhere.
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!
1:23:29
LIVE STREAMS
TinyDraw
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.
22:31
DATA STRUCTURES
Ordered sets
Arrays and sets have their own advantages and disadvantages, but what if we could combine them both to make an ordered set? We can! And in this article that’s exactly what we’ll do.
1:31:57
EVENTS
From labels to matching animations
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.
1:12:42
EVENTS
What’s new in Swift 5.3?
In this introduction we go through the core language improvements in Swift 5.3, including multiple trailing closures, type-based program entry points, and more, before moving on to the first new SwiftUI feature: lazy stacks.
16:02
CUSTOM SWIFTUI COMPONENTS
Creating a LongPressButton to trigger after delay
In this article I’m going to walk you through building a LongPressButton with SwiftUI, which will requires users to press and hold for a second before it’s triggered.
46:07
ULTIMATE PORTFOLIO APP
Offering in-app purchases, part 2
Previously we added all the grunt work to make in-app purchases possible in our app. In this article we’re going to continue that work by polishing the whole experience, checking the whole flow works, and also asking for user reviews.
21:43
SOLUTIONS
Flashzilla
This challenge asks you to clear the text fields after adding a card, avoid red flashes when changing your mind about a correct card, and reinsert wrong answers back into the deck. Let’s tackle it now…
6:23
SOLUTIONS
Word Scramble
This challenge asks you to disallow certain words, let users start a new game whenever they want, and also track player scores. Let’s tackle it now…
14:51
BOOK REVIEWS
How I learned to lead teams effectively
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.
9:28
INTERMEDIATE SWIFTUI
Customizing Toggle using ToggleStyle
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.
25:07
ULTIMATE PORTFOLIO APP
Editing items
Our next step is to build a simple form so the user can view and edit issues, which is mostly straightforward. However, extra thought needs to be given to how we can select tags neatly – it’s trickier than you might think!
1:29:28
EVENTS
Disclosure indicators, paging TabView, and grids
In this part we’ll be exploring three important additions to SwiftUI from WWDC20, then starting to integrate them into our app.
43:24
ULTIMATE PORTFOLIO APP
Creating a simple widget
Widgets allow users to place parts of our app right on their Home Screen, which is both deeply powerful and deeply personal. In this article we’re going to start by doing all the app configuration required to make widgets function, then add a simple widget for our app to show that everything works.
1:04:09
EVENTS
Tasks
At this point we’ve looked at writing code using async/await, using continuations to bridge old code, then optionally using async let as well. Here we’re going to expand our concurrency knowledge to include tasks and task groups, which provide much more control over our work.
