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Injecting dependencies using environment values and keys in SwiftUI

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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Animating GIFs and APNGs with CGAnimateImageAtURLWithBlock in SwiftUI

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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Scanning text using SwiftUI and Vision on iOS

Apple's Vision framework contains computer vision related functionality and with iOS 13 it can detect text on images as well. Moreover, Apple added a new framework VisionKit what makes it easy to integrate document scanning functionality. For demonstrating the usage of it, let's build a simple UI what can present the scanner and display scanned …

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