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Resizing images is an important topic when we need to display images which do not match with the intended display size. For example, rendering much large images in a small rectangle. UIImageView supports scaling images automatically but that becomes inefficient when dealing with larger images. In this blog post we'll take a look on how …
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Jazzy is an excellent tool for generating API documentation for Swift and Objective-C projects. Let's take a look how to generate and publish API documentation in GitHub with Jazzy. Installing Jazzy Installation: sudo gem install jazzy Jazzy config file for a Swift package Configuration options can be passed into Jazzy directly with the command or …
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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 …
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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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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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 …
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 …
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 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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