Highlights of SwiftUI Release 3
This year, Apple focused on supporting deeper adoption of the framework for our apps.
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Exploring Swift: Enumerated Parallel Tasks withThrowingTaskGroup
This post explores working with parallel tasks with enumerations while maintaining their positions.
Exploring MusicKit: Transient Item
Understanding the meaning of the transient item, errors related to it and using it correctly
Exploring SpriteKit: SwiftUI and SKScene
An introduction to working with SpriteKit, beginning with SpriteView of SwiftUI and SKScene
Exploring MusicKit: Editing Playlists
Creating a custom `LibraryPlaylist` structure to edit user's playlists
Exploring HealthKit: Activity Summary
Fetching the data from activity summary like calories burned, and exercise minutes with async/await alternative
Exploring SwiftUI: New Sheet Modifiers in Xcode 14.3 Beta
Explore the new, exciting sheet modifiers that the SwiftUI team released for us.
Exploring CI/CD: Automating DocC
Provide explicit spacing to inner views inside your VStack and HStack by creating zero spacing stacks.
Exploring Xcode: Adding Custom Fonts with Code Snippets
A step-by-step approach to adding custom fonts easily to your app
Exploring MusicKit: Song Structure with Code Snippets
Understanding the fundamental music item that is present in almost every other music item.
Exploring SwiftUI: HStack and VStack Zero Spacing
Provide explicit spacing to inner views inside your VStack and HStack by creating zero spacing stacks.
Exploring SwiftUI: Typography System
Defining all the fonts in one place for consistency and easily modifying them in the future
Exploring SwiftUI: Splash Screen
A simple screen onboarding is important for your users to understand what your app is about, and what unique feature values their time.
Exploring SwiftUI: Orientation Property Wrapper
Creating a custom property wrapper for managing orientation for single window on iPad
Exploring SwiftUI: Large Title in Navigation Bar Conditionally
Looking at a peculiar case of showing the large title in the navigation bar conditionally
Exploring SwiftUI: Grid Layout
You might be aware of the fact that SwiftUI only supports a List, but nothing like a `collectionView` natively. I have been learning about Combine and thought of trying to implement something similar.
Exploring SwiftUI: DragGesture for fullScreenCover
Adding a swipe down to dismiss on a full screen cover
Exploring SwiftUI: Custom Modal for iPad
If you're not satisfied with the modal on iPad, time to create a custom one!
Exploring SwiftUI: Custom Colors and Modifiers
I switched to custom colors for the branding, which is inspired by the systemIndigo color from UIColor.
Exploring SwiftUI: Color System
Create a color system in SwiftUI to define all the colors in one place and easily modify them in the future.
Exploring SwiftUI: baselineOffset Modifier
Adjust the text or image vertically according to the needs
Exploring MusicKit: Search Library Resources
Searching the library resources using Apple Music API and MusicKit
Exploring MusicKit: Gradient Background
An attempt to add an animated gradient background similar to Apple Music
Exploring MusicKit: Audio Variants
Exploring the audio variants and how to show them in the app using MusicKit
Exploring MusicKit: Artist Artwork
Get the artist artwork from iTunes website using Open Graph meta tags
Exploring Apple Music API: Postman
Use Postman to experiment and explore Apple Music APIs by generating the developer and user token for the headers.
Exploring Accessibility: Widgets
Apple announced widgets for iOS 14 that you can have on your home screen alongside your existing apps. Widgets help you to personalize the screen with glanceable relevant data upfront.
Exploring Accessibility: SF Symbol
SwiftUI doesn’t provide any initializer for `Image` to have the label as a parameter or something to ignore for accessibility purposes. So let’s create one!
Exploring MusicKit: Permissions
Adding the required key for accessing Apple Music and asking the user to give access.
Generic Error Handling in SwiftUI
Generalising error handling across view models and views in SwiftUI
Exploring tvOS Development: CardButtonStyle
Applying a motion effect to the button when it is in focus
Creating a framework in Swift
Frameworks are great for modularizing your code, breaking down reusable components into a separate bundle of code.
for-in loops in Swift
Learn how to use for-in loops with examples in using arrays, range operators, dictionaries, and enums.
Implementing Coordinator Pattern in SwiftUI
Looking at a peculiar case of showing the large title in the navigation bar conditionally
Adding Concurrency in Swift Package
Alternative methods to use the latest async-await syntax̱̱in a framework or Swift Package
Fixing Animations in UI Tests
Disabling the animations while running UI tests to ensure no flakiness
Displaying Live Photos Using PhotoKit and SwiftUI
I wasn’t aware that you could display live photos until recently. The first thought was to search for some documentation, and surprisingly, it is documented ...
Creating a New Playlist and Adding Shazamed Songs
Creating a new playlist in Apple Music and adding Shazamed songs to it using ShazamKit and MPMediaLibrary
Exploring MusicKit: Authentication
MusicKit for Swift makes it far easier to authenticate. No hassle of generating a JWT.
Experimenting with ShazamKit- Let’s Shazam Everything!
ShazamKit lets developers take advantage of Shazam's exact audio matching capabilities within their apps
Generic Rectangle View in Gradient and Chroma Game
Creating a generic view to use in the main screen of RGB, HSB, CMYK and history screen.
Type Safety for Interface Controller Identifiers in WatchKit
Enum and extensions for strongly code string identifiers
Using WKInterfaceInlineMovie in SwiftUI or WatchKit
WKInterfaceInlineMovie that displays a video’s poster image and supports inline playing of the video.
Adding a Tip Jar in SwiftUI Using RevenueCat
I wanted to play around with RevenueCat, and I figured creating a tip jar would be the perfect start.