Weekly Swift articles, podcasts and tips by John Sundell.
Weekly Swift articles, podcasts and tips by John Sundell.
For convenience and type safety.
A new addition to UIKit in iOS 14.
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Reduced verbosity, control flow improvements, and more.
From release trains to feature flags.
Diffable data sources, compositional layouts, cell registrations, and more.
A tip for more dynamic navigation.
A few different techniques that can help us share common networking logic, while also utilizing Swift’s advanced type system to make that kind of code more robust.
A roundup of some of the key ways in which Swift 5.3 enhances the overall experience of building views using SwiftUI.
Jordan Singer joins John to discuss various approaches of turning designs into fully implemented UIs, how to manage things like mock data during the development process, and when to turn a given view into a reusable component. Also, the story behind the Airport app and Jordan’s recent SwiftUI experiments.
Carola Nitz, iOS developer at Netflix, joins John to discuss how larger iOS development teams typically operate, and how smaller teams can prepare their code bases for future growth. Also, organizing remote conferences, balancing feature development with bug fixing, and much more.
A new addition to UIKit in iOS 14.
A tip for more dynamic navigation.
With or without storyboards.
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.
An introduction to Swift’s type inference system, how it makes the syntax of the language so lightweight, and how to work around some of its limitations.
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.