As developers, we constantly deal with layers of abstractions that make our lives easier. We have abstractions over low level networking operations that allow us to make network calls with URLSession. Core Data provides an abstraction over data persistence that can be used to store information in an sqlite database. Read more…
This article covers beta technology and it’s up to date for Xcode 12 beta 5 Starting with iOS 14, we can write apps that are fully built using SwiftUI, dropping the need to have AppDelegate and SceneDelegate files entirely. For as long as I remember, I’ve handled deeplinks in my Read more…
Tons of apps that we build feature lists. Sometimes we build lists of settings, lists of todo items, lists of our favorite pictures, lists of tweets, and many other things. Some of these lists could scroll almost endlessly. Think of a Twitter timeline, a Facebook feed or a list of Read more…
This article covers beta technology and it’s up to date for Xcode 12 beta 5 Apple introduced SF Symbols in iOS 13. SF Symbols allow developers to easily integrate icons in their apps. The SF Symbols icons integrate really well with the default system font, and provide a consistent look Read more…
This article covers beta technology and it’s up to date for Xcode 12 beta 5 In WWDC2020’s session Lists in UICollectionView a slide is shown where a UICollectionViewListCell’s separator inset is updated by assigning a new leading anchor to separatorLayoutGuide.leadingAnchor. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work in when you try to do Read more…
This article covers beta technology and it’s up to date for Xcode 12 beta 5 Last year, the team that works on UICollectionView shipped massive improvements like compositional layout and diffable data sources. This year, the team went all out and shipped even more amazing improvements to UICollectionView, making UITableView Read more…
This article covers beta technology and it’s up to date for Xcode 12 beta 5 Apple provides several accessory types that you can use to apply certain affordances to a UICollectionViewListCell. However, sometimes these options don’t suit your needs and you’re looking for something more customizable. To add a custom Read more…
This article covers beta technology and it’s up to date for Xcode 12 beta 5 In iOS 14 Apple added the ability for developers to create collection views that look and feel like table views, except they are far, far more powerful. To do this, Apple introduced a new UICollectionViewCell Read more…
This article covers beta technology and it’s up to date for Xcode 12 beta 5 In iOS 14 Apple added the ability for developers to create collection views that look and feel like table views, except they are far, far more powerful. To do this, Apple introduced a new UICollectionViewCell Read more…
This article covers beta technology and it’s up to date for Xcode 12 beta 5 In iOS 14 you can use the new UICollectionView.CellRegistration class to register and configure your UICollectionViewCell instances. So no more let cellIdentifier = "MyCell", no more collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: "MyCell", for: indexPath) and best of all, you Read more…