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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 …
One building block for navigating from one view to another is NavigationView which is a representation of UINavigationController in UIKit. This time, let's take a look on how to transition from one SwiftUI view to another one without NavigationView. AppFlowCoordinator managing choosing the view The idea is to have a root SwiftUI view with only …
This year Apple added CGAnimateImageAtURLWithBlock and CGAnimateImageDataWithBlock for animating GIFs and APNGs on all the platforms to the ImageIO framework. We can pass in URL or data and get callbacks when animation changes the current frame. In Xcode 11 beta 7 implicit bridging to Swift is disabled for those APIs and therefore we need to …
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Let's build a conversation view which shows a list of messages and has input text field with send button. Sent and received messages are managed by Conversation object. Conversation object manages a Session object which is simulating networking stack. This kind of setup allows us to look into how to propagate received messages from Session …
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