WWDC’21 brought new APIs for creating attributed strings. AttributedString is a new value type which provides a type-safe API for dealing with attributes, its also localizable, supports limited amount of Markdown syntax, and can be even archived and unarchived thanks to the Codable support. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at the new API and will compose some attributed strings. In addition to AttributedString type, there are many supporting types. For example, AttributeContainer is a collection of attributes which can be applied to the attributed string with one… Read more Exploring AttributedString and custom attributes →
I was looking at formatters provided by Foundation framework and this time I would like to put some attention on MeasurementFormatter. Like the name says, it is used for creating… Read more Measurement, Unit, Dimension, and MeasurementFormatter on iOS →
UILabel supports displaying attributed strings with link attributes but what it does not support is allowing to tap on hyperlinks and opening those in Safari. An Alternative way is using… Read more Opening hyperlinks in UILabel on iOS →
In model-view-view model (MVVM) architecture the view model observes the model and provides data for the view by transforming it when needed. When the user interacts with the view and… Read more Observing a KVO compatible model in SwiftUI and MVVM →
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… Read more Creating a pre-push git hook in Swift script →
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… Read more Home screen dynamic quick actions on iOS →
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… Read more Validating string in TextField with NumberFormatter in SwiftUI →
Everything can’t go exactly as planned and therefore, at some point, there is a need for presenting localized error messages to the user. Let’s take a look at how to… Read more Alert and LocalizedError in SwiftUI →
