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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 …
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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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 add custom error type what provides error description, failure reason and recovery suggestion and presenting it in SwiftUI view. Adding custom error type Custom error …
CoreData is Apple's object graph and persistence framework. It provides data sources for synchronising data with view. Let's take a look on how to use those data sources in SwiftUI views. Starting with NSFetchedResultsController what is used for list and collection views, after that observing NSManagedObject directly from SwiftUI view and lastly subscribing to managed …
Let's build a simple app using MVVM (model-view-view model) where every SwiftUI view has its own view model. It's going to be an app with two views: list of movies and add a movie view what utilises Form view. Added movies are stored in MovieStore which is shared by the two view models. We will …
NSAttributedString is used for displaying rich text on Apple platforms. There are many attributes available for styling the text. Let's see how to add new attribute and how to draw it in UITextView. Drawing custom attribute Defining a new attribute is just a matter of extending NSAttributedString.Key and defining a new static variable. Difficult part …
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Let's build a container where we can store collections of items conforming to a protocol. All the collections are identified by a case in enum. For making the container reusable, we'll use protocols as requirements on keys and items in collections. Moreover, the container should be archivable and unarchivable. Creating a reusable container Container's implementation …
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This time we are going to look into how to embed custom view in UIScrollView and setting up autolayout constraints for different scenarios. Setting up view controller with scroll view We'll gonna create a new view controller what contains UIScrollView as it's subview. UIScrollView will cover the whole view area. Everything is set up in …
Let's see how to replace multiple tokens in string. As an example problem to solve we will use this string:The quick <color_1> <animal_1> jumps over the lazy <animal_2> String extension for replacing tokens Token's format is < text _ numbers > what can be turned into regular expression: <[:alpha:]+_{1}[:digit:]+>. We'll extend string and add a …
Property wrappers allow property declaration to state what kind of property wrapper is used for implementing the property. We can use it for implementing transformations on properties like validating if string is email or not. This is what we will do: creating a property wrapper for email properties and validating emails using NSDataDetector. If value …
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When writing code in Swift it is often needed to observe changes in other objects. We can use Apple's key-value observation but it has some implications: requires to use NSObject and dynamic dispatch through Objective-C runtime. This time, let's build a simple key-value observation in Swift what does not require to use NSObject at all. …
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iOS 13 added a new class named UIContextMenuInteraction what is used for attaching menus to views. When adding menu interaction to a view and user uses 3D Touch or long press gesture on devices not supporting it, a menu is presented alongside with the highlighted content view. Therefore depending on the available space, not all …
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