Sep 6Member-onlyHow to Set GeometryReader Height According to its Children Height in SwiftUIIntro If you ever had to deal with dynamic sizes or layouts in SwiftUI, for example, to build a responsive layout that adapts to different devices and orientations, you will most certainly came across GeometryReader . If you did you may also be frustrated to find out that GeometryReader itself is…Swiftui6 min readSwiftui6 min read
Aug 27Member-onlyHow to display Swift code in your Medium article with syntax highlightingI like to write articles about Swift and the Apple frameworks and I’ve been doing so since 2020. The thing that annoyed me the most when writing those articles was that there was no easy way to insert code with syntax highlighting on Medium. …Swift2 min readSwift2 min read
Apr 16Member-onlyHow to sync data between your app running on multiple devices?Introduction So the idea is to store the data of the app using Core Data and use CloudKit to store this data in the cloud and sync it between the devices. In this story I will walkthrough the easiest and minimum amount of steps to get this up and running. What…Xcode5 min readXcode5 min read
Published inGeek Culture·Aug 18, 2022Member-onlyHow To Make Your Custom Object Properties Match Your JSON KeysWhen working with APIs and services that use JSON as a response format you will notice that in most cases they won’t follow the Swift API Design Guidelines. Meaning there is a pretty high probability the properties on your custom object don’t match the keys you get returned from the…Swift4 min readSwift4 min read
Aug 15, 2022Member-onlyHow NSCoding and NSKeyedArchiver/Unarchiver Work Together to Encode/Decode ObjectsThe NSCoding protocol declares how an instance of a class can be encoded or decoded. This capability is then used byNSKeyedArchiver (a NSCoder) to encode the instance into an architecture-independent format suitable for archiving to disk or for distribution over the network. …Developer3 min readDeveloper3 min read
Jul 16, 2022Member-onlyHow to Make Double Click work on a NavigationLink (SwiftUI)?It’s actually ridiculous that this story needs to be written. Something as basic as detecting a double mouse click on a NavigationLink should be as easy as using the .onTapGesture(count: 2) {} event modifier. However if you arrived at this story there is a great chance you will have noticed…Swiftui4 min readSwiftui4 min read
Published inGeek Culture·Jul 13, 2022Member-onlyHow to Use Core Data in SwiftUI as a persistent storage for a macOS Ventura appIn my previous story, Programmatically open a new Window in SwiftUI on macOS Ventura (13), I wrote a simple note taking app called Scribble for demoing how to open new windows with the new WindowGroup init(for:content:) initializer. The scribbles were stored in memory and I already mentioned that it would…Swiftui6 min readSwiftui6 min read
Jul 11, 2022Member-onlyProgrammatically open a new Window in SwiftUI on macOS Ventura (13)Since macOS Big Sur(11) we are able to open new windows using the URL scheme, but with the arrival of macOS Ventura (13) we finally have a way to do it programmatically. In this story I am going to show you how by building a note taking app called Scribble…Swiftui7 min readSwiftui7 min read
Jul 3, 2022Member-onlyCreate a Beautiful Network Layer to Interact with your API in Swift (2022)This story is an iteration, my spin, on the original story Create a beautiful Network Layer With Swift written by Ertem Biyik. He starts by writing: “Barely all swift developers once upon a time face with a task of interacting with API’s.” I agree. Many, if not all, developers will…Swift5 min readSwift5 min read
Apr 12, 2022Member-onlyHow to Use Alignments in SwiftUI — Z-Stack AlignmentThis is the third part in the ‘SwiftUI Layout System’ series and the fifth part in the subseries about ‘How to Use Alignments in SwiftUI’. In this part we will talk about how alignments work along the z-axis in a Z-Stack. The SwiftUI Layout System How to Use the SwiftUI Layout System How to…IOS7 min readIOS7 min read
