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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 …
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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I am happy to announce that Signal Path 2.0 is available now for macOS and iOS. Signal Path uses Apple's universal purchase offering - buy it once for both platforms. Signal Path 2.0 on the App Store Past, present, and future I spent a lot of time architecting both apps in a way that they …
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XCTMetric enables creating tests with measure blocks collecting information about CPU, memory and disk. In this post we'll write UI-tests measuring a button tap what triggers writing to disk, allocating larger amount of memory and applying filters what requires CPU to do more work. It should be noted that XCTMetric can also be used in …
Instead of initializing SwiftUI views with dependencies, SwiftUI also offers other ways for injecting dependencies. This time let's take a look on EnvironmentKey which defines a key for inserting objects to environment and vise-versa. We need to create a EnvironmentKey, adding an object to environment and then getting the object in SwiftUI view. Creating EnvironmentKey …
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