Weekly Swift articles, podcasts and tips by John Sundell.
Weekly Swift articles, podcasts and tips by John Sundell.
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Managing internal reference types.
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Let’s take a look at one possible venue for learning and exploring SwiftUI without having to necessarily deploy it directly into production — by building internal tools and various prototypes.
With just a few hours to go until WWDC20 kicks off with the first ever online-only Apple keynote, I thought I’d do the same thing as I did last year, and share a few of my biggest Swift-related dreams for this upcoming WWDC.
Josh Shaffer and Eliza Block from Apple join John to talk about what’s new in SwiftUI, how Xcode Previews work under the hood, the new home screen widget system, Apple’s internal process of adopting and improving SwiftUI, and much more.
Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt join John to talk about their newly launched Swift Package Index, and what the overall state of Swift’s package ecosystem currently is. Also, dependency management, composing libraries, deploying server-side Swift in production, and much more.
Managing internal reference types.
Several ways of defining default values for initializers and functions.
Making Codable much more flexible.
Let’s take a look at how Swift’s key paths work, and how they relate to functions — both in terms of what comes built into the language itself, and what kind of utilities that we can write ourselves to form some really nice convenience APIs.
Let’s take a look at the role that controllers play within the MVC design pattern, and how we can avoid some of the most common issues when working with them — particularly around how we can break up Massive View Controllers into smaller building blocks.
In this Basics article, let’s take a look at a few examples of the various kinds of properties that Swift supports, and what their characteristics are.
Combine is a really powerful reactive programming framework from Apple, but getting started with it can be quite difficult, so let’s go through the basics of its API and its core concepts.