Swift clip: Managing URLs and endpoints
Different ways of organizing the server endpoints that an app calls.
Weekly Swift articles, podcasts and tips by John Sundell.
Weekly Swift articles, podcasts and tips by John Sundell.
Different ways of organizing the server endpoints that an app calls.
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Let’s continue exploring the SwiftUI layout system by taking a look at a couple of more advanced techniques, such as how we can align views with dynamic dimensions and how to read a view’s geometry in order to build custom layouts.
Let’s take a look at the SwiftUI layout system by starting to build a full-screen view from scratch. Along the way, we’ll use many different techniques and APIs, which lets us explore the underlying rules of the SwiftUI layout system.
Holly Borla and Grace Kendall, both software engineers at Apple, join John to go on a deep dive into the Swift Playgrounds app and Swift 5.2’s new diagnostics engine. Also, how Swift Playgrounds was ported to the Mac using Catalyst, and Swift’s role in education and as a language for beginners.
Leah Culver, co-founder and CTO of the Breaker podcast app, joins John to talk about her journey from iOS developer to startup founder, building MVPs and prototypes, iterating on and maintaining a code base, and growing a development team. Lots of tips and learnings about everything from app architecture to hiring.
Making wrapping views a lot easier.
Different ways of helping the compiler type-check generic code.
Flexibility without any added risk.
In this video, we’ll take a look at three different ways to manage the URLs and server endpoints that a Swift app is communicating with, and the sort of pros and cons that come with each approach.
Let’s take a look at how SwiftUI’s various stacks and spacers can be used to achieve many kinds of flexible, adaptive layouts with very little code. While SwiftUI does include several more advanced layout APIs, stacks and spacers are a great starting point for most UIs.
A look at the standard library’s Result type, what kind of situations that it might be useful in, and tips and tricks that can be good to keep in mind when working with it.
Let’s explore how optional values work in Swift, including how they’re implemented under the hood, and what sort of techniques that we can use to handle them.