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Creatopy: AI-powered Ad Generation
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Swift Around the Web
Migrating XCTest to Swift Testing
Upgrade your testing workflow with Swift Testing. This guide explains a smooth transition from XCTest, covering key steps like importing the framework, organizing tests, and utilizing powerful assertion macros.
Testing completion handler-based code in Swift Testing
This post compares two approaches for testing completion handler-based code in Swift: confirmation and continuations.
While confirmation is suggested by Apple, continuations offer a more reliable approach, especially when dealing with completion handlers that return before the confirmation can be called.
Swift Sharing
Swift-sharing simplifies state management in iOS apps. It provides a simple way to share data between different components, such as SwiftUI views, observable models, and UIKit view controllers.
With its flexible persistence strategies, you can store data in various locations like user defaults, the file system, or memory. This simplifies your codebase, improves testability, and promotes a more organized approach to state management.
Coding
SF Symbol for Swift & SwiftUI
Leverage Apple's SF Symbols to elevate your app's design. This comprehensive guide explores the vast library of icons, their customization options, and how to seamlessly integrate them into your SwiftUI projects.
From basic usage to advanced techniques like animating symbols and creating custom icons, this post provides all the essential information you need to make the most of SF Symbols.
visionOS
The Complete Guide to Designing for visionOS
Explore the fundamentals of designing for Apple's visionOS platform. Learn how to create immersive and user-friendly experiences by understanding Apple's new spatial awareness, user interaction, and visual design principles.
Learn practical tips on using color, typography, and layout in visionOS apps. By following these guidelines, developers can create engaging and immersive experiences that leverage the unique capabilities of visionOS.
Apple News
The updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement is now available
Apple has updated its Developer Program License Agreement to include specific requirements for using the In-App Purchase API. Developers are advised to review the changes and accept the updated terms in their Apple Developer Program account.
Design
Mastering Forms in SwiftUI: Creating and Styling
Explore the fundamentals of form creation in SwiftUI, and learn how to structure forms using sections, add headers and footers to sections, and customize their appearance using different form styles.
This post also delves into the use of modifiers to fine-tune the spacing, separators, and labels of form elements, ensuring a polished and user-friendly experience.
Animated Search box in SwiftUI
Learn how to create a visually appealing and interactive search box in SwiftUI. It uses animations to cycle through placeholder text, enhancing user experience.
The implementation utilizes state management, timers, and SwiftUI's view modifiers to achieve the desired effect. It also provides suggestions for customization and improvement.
Other Cool Stuff
How to change your app's business model from paid to freemium using StoreKit
Learn the process of transitioning a paid app to a freemium model using StoreKit. It covers setting up in-app purchases, identifying existing paying users, and preparing the app for release.
By leveraging StoreKit's Transaction and AppTransaction APIs, you can ensure a smooth transition and provide a seamless experience for your users.
Creating ML models with Create ML
This post guides you through creating a custom machine learning model for sentiment analysis using Create ML. It covers data preparation, model training, integration into an iOS app, and performance evaluation.
Create ML simplifies the process, making it accessible to developers without a deep understanding or expertise in machine learning.
Using a Raw String to write JSON data
Discover how to simplify your Swift code and enhance readability by leveraging raw strings for JSON data. Raw strings eliminate the need for escaping double quotes or new lines, making your JSON structures more concise and easier to maintain.
This article provides a practical guide with examples of using raw strings effectively in your Swift projects.
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Exploring Apple Intelligence: Image Generation
Apple's latest advancements in image generation, powered by Apple Intelligence, are revolutionizing user experiences. Image Playground and Genmoji are two key features that allow users to create unique images and emojis from text prompts.
Developers can leverage these tools and APIs to integrate image generation capabilities into their apps, unlocking new creative possibilities.
OpenAI on Mobile Development, Previews, & Snapshot Testing
This post provides insights from OpenAI's mobile development team on their use of snapshot testing with Emerge. They use snapshots to maintain UI consistency across platforms, detect regressions early, and streamline their development process.
By leveraging Emerge's preview-based approach, OpenAI effectively addresses the challenges of testing complex UI components and internationalization. This article offers valuable guidance for teams looking to improve their mobile testing practices.
Videos
Xcode - Improved Workflow with Compiler Directives
This video tutorial provides a comprehensive guide to compiler directives in Xcode, a powerful tool for iOS developers.
Learn how to optimize your codebase by separating platform-specific code, controlling code execution based on build modes (debug or release), and leaving informative notes within your code using #warning and #error directives.