UIButton.Configuration API was introduced in WWDC’21 with a goal of making it easier to create buttons with many styles, sizes, colours etc. Configurations API comes with functions for creating common button configurations: filled(), bordered(), borderedProminent(), borderedTinted(), borderless(), plain(), gray(), tinted(). These configurations can be further customized. One benefit of the API is that it will take care of different states of the button like highlighted, disabled, hovered and so on and applies different styling based on the state. Most of the time that is all we needed, but additionally we… Read more Getting started with UIButton.Configuration on iOS →
TabView is a container view which enables navigating between multiple flows by selecting one of the items on the tab bar. Tapping on a tab item replaces the visible view with a view associated with the item. Tab view is set up by creating views which have tab items attached. Tab items are created with the tabItem() view modifier, which supports setting a text and an image. In addition, there is a badge() view modifier if we would like to show a badge on top of the item. Tab view… Read more Tab view in SwiftUI →
Xcode provides a cross-platform app template in SwiftUI which can be built for macOS and iOS. This template includes a Shared folder which is meant for code used both on macOS and iOS. Many SwiftUI types and functions work both on macOS and iOS but along with developing an app we’ll encounter cases where we need to specialize per platform. When I was building a multiplatform app then the very first thing I encountered was list styles. On macOS I wanted to use a different list style than on iOS… Read more Structuring platform specific code in SwiftUI →
A common UI layout on macOS has a sidebar and detail view side by side. The sidebar contains a list of items, where the selected item is displayed on the right and displays details of it. One would expect that creating such a view hierarchy in SwiftUI should be pretty easy to set up. In this post, we’ll take a look at how to create a basic view with sidebar which supports selection. Building the layout We’ll build a simple sample app which shows a list of fruits in the… Read more Sidebar layout on macOS in SwiftUI →
Xcode 13 with Swift 5.5 toolchain brings async-await to the Swift language. The aim of this blog post is not to cover everything it brings, but instead concentrate on seeing how completion handler based code can be wrapped with async await. In the end, we have reused existing code but made it available to be called from async task contexts. For demonstrating this, we’ll take my IndexedDataStore Swift package and add async await supported methods to existing completion handler based API. The IndexedDataStore package has async methods for loading data… Read more Adding async await to existing completion handler based code →
One of the really common layouts I have needed to implement with collection view is a simple flow layout but with fixed spacings. Apple provides us UICollectionViewFlowLayout, but the sad part is that it has dynamic spacing between items. Everything is there but not quite. Before UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout, one needs to create a subclass of the flow layout and then fixing spacings manually, which is pretty cumbersome to do. Therefore, let’s instead see what it takes to implement a simple self-sizing flow layout with fixed spacings when using UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout. The end… Read more Flow layout with self-sizing items and fixed spacing in UIKit →
I have numerous times needed to show some sort of collection view which adjusts its height based on the content. Most of the time it has been a dynamic list within some more complex scrollable UI. Therefore, in this post, we’ll take a look at how to set up a collection view which has its height set to the content height. On the screenshot below, we have a collection view with light grey background and two sections. The approach for making this working is pretty simple, which involves adding a… Read more Height fitting collection view →
Signal Path version 2.6 is out. Signal Path now supports wav files in addition to the existing raw IQ data format. Audio recordings are now saved as wav files, and it means that audio recordings can be played with other music player apps. Additionally, some audio quality issues related to playing audio recordings were fixed along with it.
