Xcode provides a cross-platform app template in SwiftUI which can be built for macOS and iOS. This template includes a Shared folder which is meant for code used both on macOS and iOS. Many SwiftUI types and functions work both on macOS and iOS but along with developing an app we’ll encounter cases where we need to specialize per platform. When I was building a multiplatform app then the very first thing I encountered was list styles. On macOS I wanted to use a different list style than on iOS… Read more Structuring platform specific code in SwiftUI →
A common UI layout on macOS has a sidebar and detail view side by side. The sidebar contains a list of items, where the selected item is displayed on the right and displays details of it. One would expect that creating such a view hierarchy in SwiftUI should be pretty easy to set up. In this post, we’ll take a look at how to create a basic view with sidebar which supports selection. Building the layout We’ll build a simple sample app which shows a list of fruits in the… Read more Sidebar layout on macOS in SwiftUI →
WWDC’21 brought us a new protocol named AsyncSequence. As the name stands, it represents a sequence of asynchronous elements. For trying out the new API we’ll build a tiny ThumbnailSequence which takes in a list of image names and by iterating the sequence, we’ll get back scaled thumbnails for those image names one by one. The image scaling runs on a background thread. The AsyncSequence protocol comes with two associated types: Element and AsyncIterator. Element represents the type which is produced by the sequence, and AsyncIterator is the type responsible… Read more Image converter with AsyncSequence →
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 →
ExpressibleByStringInterpolation is a protocol which makes it possible to compose strings with expressions evaluated at runtime. Interpolated strings are created with adding a \(some code) to a string. Those expressions… Read more Custom string interpolation in Swift →
WWDC’20 brought an addition to SwiftUI apps which enables to create document based applications in SwiftUI. Along with DocumentGroup API two new protocols were added: FileDocument and ReferenceFileDocument. The first… Read more Reading Fastfiles with document based SwiftUI app on macOS →
Signal Path version 2.4 is out. This time it is a smaller release concentrating on optimizing file accesses when playing audio or just scrolling through the file.
In the previous blog post Reading data from a file with DispatchIO I built a small FileReader which enabled reading data from a file for random byte ranges. Signal Path uses… Read more Building a memory cache for a file reader in Swift →
