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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 an UITextView which does support opening hyperlinks but on the other hand it is a more heavy view component and therefore might not be the …
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 changes the data in it then the view model's responsibility is to propagate those mutations back to the model object. Therefore, the important part in …
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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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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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