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Category: Swift Programming
Custom Quick Help in Xcode
There are some powerful documentation features of Xcode you may not be using and will make your life a lot easier. Take a look at the downloaded exercise file. Go ahead and run it like I have here. I wrote a simple app to… Continue Reading “Custom Quick Help in Xcode”
Checklists in Swift UI
In our last tip, I made a single checkbox in SwiftUI. Let’s learn more about collections in SwiftUI and build a checklist. If you download the exercise file, you’ll find an expanded version of last week’s project. Under the model folder, I added some… Continue Reading “Checklists in Swift UI”
Use Sets in Swift
Of the most underrated collection types is sets. Sets are an unordered collection with unique values. Let’s take a look at what you can do with sets. Download the exercise files and you’ll find I created playground with a Struct called Pizza. I’ve made… Continue Reading “Use Sets in Swift”
Strings in Swift: Going back to BASICs
A few tips ago, we went under the hood with unicode Characters and their relationship to the Swift String type. For most, that’s great theory, but how does it apply to strings, not characters? When I started programming back in the 1980’s, I had… Continue Reading “Strings in Swift: Going back to BASICs”
Launch an Alert from a Closure Safely
Your app can get into problems when you launch UI from others threads, such as closures. For example, you might have an app that going to ask for permissions for things like photos, notifications, or location data. The system usually handles those, but you… Continue Reading “Launch an Alert from a Closure Safely”
Change UIColors to RGB and HSB colors
One dilemma you’ll find when working with colors is switching between color systems. There’s two you’ll most often be using: the Red-Green-Blue or RGB and Hue-Saturation-Brightness or HSB. Download the Exercise file and run. It will give you the HSB value, but what if… Continue Reading “Change UIColors to RGB and HSB colors”
Use Dynamic Type
For reading ease and visual accessibility you should be using dynamic fonts whenever possible. Let’s look at an example you can get from the download files. I’ve run the Split View Controller from a previous tip in landscape on an iPad Pro 9.7 inch.… Continue Reading “Use Dynamic Type”
Programmatically Add Split View Controllers
An often ignored but rather powerful View Controller is the UISplitViewController. You can make one from a template and the storyboard, but I often skip both and do it programmatically, which is especially good when I’m prototyping in a playground. Let’s give it a… Continue Reading “Programmatically Add Split View Controllers”
Refactoring
One of the core elements of clean code is having code that is consistent with identifiers. Head to the AppDelegate. Take a look at this code from the tip from last week. I have a few problems with it. I’m not being very consistent… Continue Reading “Refactoring”
Understand ARC
One of those difficult things for even experienced developers to understand is Automatic Reference Counting, or ARC. It is how Swift manages and conserves memory automatically. Take a look at the Exercise file. I have a playground in this project with two classes. One… Continue Reading “Understand ARC”
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