When you’ve added Core Data to your SwiftUI project and you have some data stored in your database, the next hurdle is to somehow fetch that data from your Core Data store and present it to the user. In this week’s post, I will present two different ways that you Read more…
This article covers beta technology and it’s up to date for Xcode 12 beta 5 In Xcode 12 you can create projects that no longer use an AppDelegate and SceneDelegate to manage the application lifecycle. Instead, we can use Swift’s new @main annotation to turn a struct that conforms to 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 Views in SwiftUI are thrown away and recreated regularly. When this happens, the entire view struct is initialized all over again. Because of this, any values that you create in a SwiftUI view are reset Read more…
This article covers beta technology and it’s up to date for Xcode 12 beta 5 In SwiftUI, views can be driven by an @Published property that’s part of an ObservableObject. If you’ve used SwiftUI and @Published before, following code should look somewhat familiar to you: class DataSource: ObservableObject { @Published Read more…