Articles, podcasts and news about Swift development, by John Sundell.
Adam Bell returns to the show to talk about animations, both how to make great use of the built-in animation tools that the iOS SDK ships with, but also how to drive custom, gesture-driven animation logic and the sort of performance optimizations that are typically required when writing that sort of code.
Meng To, founder of Design+Code, joins John to go on a deep dive into SwiftUI from a design perspective, and to talk about how developers and designers can build scalable and flexible UIs using it. Also, structuring view code and components, the power of modifiers, and how SwiftUI compares to other UI tools and platforms.
Adding animations to an app can be a great way to both delight users, and to draw their attention to certain information or actions, through motion. When deployed in the right places, animations can really make an app appear more polished and easy to use. Let’s take a look at how to get started.
Nick Lockwood, Core Animation veteran and creator of tools like SwiftFormat, joins John to talk about animations, layout, building parsers & compilers in Swift, declarative UI patterns and much more.
In this talk, we’ll go beyond animations and take a look at how Core Animation’s many powerful features can enable different kinds of high-performance rendering.
In this new (non-consecutive) series of posts - "Core Animation Gems" - we'll take a closer look at some of Core Animation's less widely known features and APIs, and how they can be used to solve problems related to animation and rendering in a nice way. This week, let's kick it off with the first one - CAReplicatorLayer.
This week, let's finish building the animation framework that we started in last week's post! We'll continue building a declarative animation API, that will now also support sequencing of animations performed on multiple views.
This week, let's take a look at how we can make view-based animations (animating individual UIViews, like buttons and labels) on iOS easier to handle - by building a simple framework that will enable us to express animations in a very declarative, composable way.
A talk about a few different techniques that I use to build animations for iOS, and how these techniques can be used to implement nice and smooth workflows for both developers and designers.
Animations are a great way to explain the functionality of our apps through motion, and to delight our users. Adding animations in the right places can really make a UI look a lot more polished and nice. This week, let's take a look at how SpriteKit can be a great tool for creating certain kinds of animations.