LibraryContentProvider protocol in Xcode is a way for adding custom views and view modifiers to the Xcode library, which enables drag and dropping them to the SwiftUI preview. Xcode automatically… Read more LibraryContentProvider in Xcode →
One of the cases where we would like to build debug and release configurations differently is when we want to enable some extra features. A concrete example could be a debug view which has a list of commands or displays additional information. In this blog post, we are going to take a look at a Xcode project which only links a local Swift package in debug builds. The project setup In the example project, we have an iOS app and a local Swift package “DebugFeatures”. The Swift package description also… Read more Linking a Swift package only in debug builds →
UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout was an important change to how we create collection view layouts. In iOS14 Apple added a new static function to this class which creates a layout object for list views. Meaning, it is very easy to create a list views which look like a table view we are familiar with. The static list() function takes a configuration object UICollectionLayoutListConfiguration which allows further to configure the appearance of the header view. For example, supplementary header views are enabled here. In this blog post, we’ll create a list view with a… Read more Building a list view with collection view in UIKit →
Swift 5.6 was released in March with Xcode 13.3 and among other changes it introduces a new keyword – any. The Swift evolution proposal for it is SE-0335: existential any. Existential types are used for storing an any kind of value which conforms to a specific protocol. Therefore, whenever we use protocol for defining a property type or function argument, then we are encountering existential types. In Swift 5.6, using the any keyword is optional, but it is expected to be required in Swift 6. The evolution proposal’s motivation paragraph… Read more Is existential any a performance problem in Swift? →
Swift 5.6 released with Xcode 13.3 implements evolution proposals extensible built tools (SE-0303) and its extension command plugins (SE-0332). This opens up plugins for Swift packages. Along with that, Apple released DocC command plugin for Swift packages, which supports generating static webpages containing the documentation of the package. Swift-DocC plugin Apple’s Swift-DocC plugin comes with pretty rich documentation which covers many aspects of the documentation generation process. Something to keep in mind still is that the generated website can’t just be opened with Safari like we might have been used… Read more Static DocC documentation for Swift packages →
Recently I was asked a question about creating an app which has SwiftUI views but no navigation logic in it. Instead, UIKit controls how views are presented. It is a fair question since SwiftUI views have navigation support, but not everything is there if we need to support previous iOS versions as well, or we have a case of an app which have both UIKit and SwiftUI views. Therefore, let’s take a look at on one approach, how to handle navigation on the UIKit side but still use SwiftUI views.… Read more UIKit navigation with SwiftUI views →
Async await was added to Swift 5.5 and brought a new way how to write asynchronous code. Functions can be annotated with an async keyword, which enables them to be called with the await keyword. When an async function is being awaited, the execution of the current context is suspended and is resumed when the async function finishes. There are a lot more details in the SE-0296. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at a few examples of async await. Wrapping completion handler based function We can add… Read more A few examples of async await in Swift →
SwiftUI has a Picker view available with multiple different styles. One example of when it falls short is when we want to use a multi component picker with wheel style. One way how to try to achieve this is using a HStack with two Picker views, but it does not work very well, especially when trying to show it inside a Form view. So what else we can do? If something can’t be done in SwiftUI then we can use UIKit instead. In my case, I wanted to create a… Read more Using a multi component picker in a SwiftUI form →
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