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 →
Buttons in SwiftUI are represented with a Button type. Buttons are easy to create and can be customized either with directly providing a styled label or using a ButtonStyle protocol… Read more Subtitled button in SwiftUI →
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 →
I have been writing a new blog post at least every second week and therefore in 2020 I have published total of 27 blog posts. It is time to take… Read more Most visited blog posts in 2020 →
A SwiftUI view showing buttons for taking a photo and opening photo album.
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… Read more Observing a KVO compatible model in SwiftUI and MVVM →
