Wave shape with red button on top of it
Animating a custom wave shape in SwiftUI
Adding SwiftLint to a project in Xcode
SwiftLint is a tool for validating the style and conventions in Swift files. It is easy to integrate to a project. Minimum set up consists of installing SwiftLint and adding a build phase to your app target in Xcode. SwiftLint comes with a default list of rules, but if you would like to change the …
Creating a pre-push git hook in Swift script
Git hooks are scripts written in any scripting language and are triggered when important actions occur. Hooks are stored in the repository’s .git/hooks folder. The script needs to have an appropriate filename without a path extension and also have executable permissions. Push event is an excellent time for triggering unit-tests and making sure local changes …
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Sharing data from CoreData storage with a Widget on iOS
WWDC’20 introduced WidgetKit which is a new framework for building widgets on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Widgets provide a quick way for displaying content from your app either on the home screen on iOS or on the notification center on macOS. As I have an iOS app which stores data with CoreData then let’s see …
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@StateObject and MVVM in SwiftUI
A while ago I wrote about using MVVM in a SwiftUI project. During the WWDC’20 Apple announced @StateObject property wrapper which is a nice addition in the context of MVVM. @StateObject makes sure that only one instance is created per a view structure. This enables us to use @StateObject property wrappers for class type view …
Creating and publishing a Swift package
In the previous post we looked into how to separate code with local Swift packages within a project. This time let's create a Swift package, publish it on GitHub, and add it to a separate project. We'll create a package which extends UIImage and enables calculating color contrast ratios. Color contrast is important factor for …
Separating code with Swift packages in Xcode
Xcode 12 comes with Swift toolchain 5.3 which brings resource and localisation support to Swift packages. Nice thing is that Swift package support only depends on the toolchain's version and does not have additional OS requirements. At the same time, let's keep in mind that OS requirements come from the code we actually add to …
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Picker and segmented control in SwiftUI on iOS
Picker is used for presenting a selection consisting of multiple options. UISegmentedControl which is known from UIKit is just a different picker style in SwiftUI. Let's take a quick look on how to create a form with two items: picker with default style and picker with segmented style. Creating a from Form should be typically …
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Using SwiftUI previews for UIKit views
SwiftUI provides wrappers for UIViewController and UIView on iOS. Same wrappers are also available for AppKit views on macOS. Let's see how to use those wrappers for rendering UIKit views in SwiftUI previews and therefore benefiting from seeing changes immediately. Note that even when a project can't support SwiftUI views because of the minimum deployment …
Home screen dynamic quick actions on iOS
iOS apps can add quick actions which are displayed when force touching on the app's icon. We'll add quick actions to my open source WaterMyPlants example app. Quick actions can be static and dynamic: static actions are defined in the Info.plist and dynamic actions are configured in the code by updating UIApplication's shortcutItems property. In …
Signal Path 2.0 for iOS and macOS is available now!
I am happy to announce that Signal Path 2.0 is available now for macOS and iOS. Signal Path uses Apple's universal purchase offering - buy it once for both platforms. Signal Path 2.0 on the App Store Past, present, and future I spent a lot of time architecting both apps in a way that they …
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Setting an equal width to text views in SwiftUI
Let's take a look on how to set an equal width to multiple views where the width equals to the widest Text() view in SwiftUI. SwiftUI does not have an easy to use view modifier for this at the moment, therefore we'll add one ourselves. Example use case is displaying two text bubbles with width …
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Validating string in TextField with NumberFormatter in SwiftUI
I was looking into creating a view which has TextField with NumberFormatter. Typed text would show up in a separate label and when trying to enter non-numbers, the TextField would reject those characters. Although TextField component in SwiftUI has generic initialiser init(_:value:formatter:onEditingChanged:onCommit:) it does not seem to do what we need. Value binding does not …
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Getting started with device framed screenshots for iOS App Store using fastlane
Creating screenshots manually for App Store is time consuming because of the number of devices and localisations. Moreover, as soon as UI changes we would need to update screenshots again. Therefore, it is best to automate the process. One way is to use fastlane and creating nice device framed screenshots with additional localised text. This …
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Revealing content behind keyboard in SwiftUI
By default SwiftUI view content gets behind a keyboard when editing text. Therefore let's create a view modifier which can be easily added to any SwiftUI view and enables revealing content behind the keyboard with animation. In the end we will fix this broken looking view where TextField is behind the keyboard. SwiftUI view with …
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