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 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 →
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 →
Wave shape with red button on top of it
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… Read more Sharing data from CoreData storage with a Widget on iOS →
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.… Read more @StateObject and MVVM in SwiftUI →
