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We’re going to implement your sidebar knowledge in Journeys so you can see it in action, then move on to examine the new Label
view in iOS 14.
If you have nice, clean JSON then using Swift and Codable
is like a dream come true. But what if you have messy JSON, or JSON where you really don’t know what you’ll receive ahead of time? In this article I’ll show you how to handle any kind of JSON in an elegant way, without relying on third-party libraries.
We already looked at how to fetch decodable data using Combine, and also how to fetch and merge multiple sources of data. In this article we’ll tackle something even more complex: creating chained network requests, where the information retrieved from one request must be used to create multiple other requests.
In this stream we'll build an app I originally designed for my kids, to help them build confidence in mathematics. Along the way we'll meet a couple of great iOS 17 APIs, explore styling in SwiftUI, and more!
UPDATED: 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.
In this article we’re going to build part of a SwiftUI app that helps users find designers for work. The goal here isn’t to build a full app, but instead to explore lesser-known SwiftUI features in a practical way.
In the first part of this tutorial we looked at the underlying problem that type erasure is trying to solve, and tried out Swift’s approach using AnySequence
. In this second part we’re going to adapt Swift’s own solution to get real type erasure for our own code.
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!
When it comes to sorting our data, SwiftData has two approaches: the trivial version that works great in a WWDC video and a handful of small projects, and a more complex version that is much more indicative of the kinds of apps you’ll be building in real life.
There are three challenges for WeSplit, including adding section headers and showing a grand total. Let’s solve them now…
SwiftUI’s ProgressView
gives us control over showing determinate or indeterminate progress, but it’s a bit dull – just a thin line and an activity spinner. Fortunately, we also get the ProgressViewStyle
protocol so we can build entirely custom progress views, and in this article I’ll show you how it’s done.
UPDATED: Good documentation describes not only what code does, but provides context on why it works a certain way, what assumptions you made, any optimizations you made, as well as describing subtleties in the implementation if you’re dealing with difficult code. In this article we’re going to be documenting our project for other developers and beyond!
So far our home view has simply been a host for adding test data, but that changes now: we’re going to make the home view a summary of all their project progress, plus the most important items coming up next.
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 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.
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.
Runtime reflection allows us to query objects as our code runs, meaning that we can read data without knowing ahead of time what’s there. In this tutorial we’ll look at potential uses for this approach, including how it’s used by Swift itself.
This challenge asks you to build a fun brain game using all the SwiftUI skills you’ve learned so far. Let’s tackle it now…
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…
In this part we’re going to build an app to explore SF Symbols, all built using the massive new updates to UICollectionView
that let it act like a table view.
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