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Deadlocks in Swift explained: detecting and solving

Deadlocks in Swift can make your app hang, causing a frustrating situation for both you and your users. Your app ...
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Variable WidgetBundle configuration based on conditions

The WidgetBundle protocol inside WidgetKit allows you to configure supported widgets for your apps. Whenever you add one or more ...
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Accessibility in SwiftUI explained for UIKit developers

Adding accessibility support in SwiftUI will be more approachable for you compared to UIKit. But still, if you’ve been sharpening ...
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Swift Keywords

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Learn more about Swift

Deadlocks in Swift explained: detecting and solving

Deadlocks in Swift can make your app hang, causing a frustrating situation for both you and your users. Your app ...
  •  4 min read / DebuggingSwift

Shared with You implementation and testing explained

iOS 16 introduced Shared with You allowing you to showcase content shared in Messages inside your app. Users can find ...
  •  5 min read / Swift

Sendable and @Sendable closures explained with code examples

Sendable and @Sendable are part of the concurrency changes that arrived in Swift 5.5 and address a challenging problem of ...
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Learn SwiftUI

Variable WidgetBundle configuration based on conditions

The WidgetBundle protocol inside WidgetKit allows you to configure supported widgets for your apps. Whenever you add one or more ...
  •  3 min read / SwiftUI

Accessibility in SwiftUI explained for UIKit developers

Adding accessibility support in SwiftUI will be more approachable for you compared to UIKit. But still, if you’ve been sharpening ...
  •  5 min read / SwiftUI

VoiceOver navigation improvement tips for SwiftUI apps

VoiceOver navigation support in your apps comes with the same requirements as navigating through touch controls. When navigating apps with ...
  •  5 min read / SwiftUI

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Combine all the things

@Published risks and usage explained with code examples

@Published is one of the property wrappers in SwiftUI that allows us to trigger a view redraw whenever changes occur ...
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RunLoop.main vs DispatchQueue.main: The differences explained

RunLoop.main and DispatchQueue.main are often used as schedulers within Combine. During code reviews, I often encounter inconsistency in using one ...
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PassthroughSubject vs. CurrentValueSubject explained

PassthroughSubject and CurrentValueSubject are two types from the Combine framework that conforms to the Subject protocol. Both are very similar ...
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Dive into Core Data

How to observe NSManagedObject changes in Core Data using Combine

Observing changes in Core Data NSManagedObject instances with Combine publishers can be a great solution to keep your user interface ...
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Data validation on insertion, update, and deletion in Core Data

Data validation in apps is important to make sure we save data conforming to the business rules. A name should ...
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Derived Attributes to improve Core Data Fetch Performance

Derived attributes are available since iOS 13 and aim to improve fetch performance in many different scenarios. Although we have ...
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Be an expert on Xcode

Faster StoreKit testing by syncing in-app purchase products

StoreKit testing in the Simulator allows you to speed up testing in-app purchases for your app. You can test in-app ...
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App Icon Generator is no longer needed with Xcode 14

An App Icon Generator generates all required app icon sizes based on a single-size icon input file. Creating and dragging ...
  •  7 min read / OptimizationXcode

RocketSim 8.0: Enhance your iOS Simulator

RocketSim is a developer tool that gives your iOS Simulator extra functionalities to increase day-to-day development productivity. Floating windows become ...
  •  9 min read / Xcode

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Get better at debugging

Deadlocks in Swift explained: detecting and solving

Deadlocks in Swift can make your app hang, causing a frustrating situation for both you and your users. Your app ...
  •  4 min read / DebuggingSwift

Debugging SwiftUI views: what caused that change?

Debugging SwiftUI views is an essential skill to own when writing dynamic views with several redrawing triggers. Property wrappers like ...
  •  6 min read / DebuggingSwiftUI

Flaky tests resolving using Test Repetitions in Xcode

Flaky tests can be frustrating to deal with. You're ready to open your PR until you realize your tests fail ...
  •  5 min read / Debugging

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Improve your workflow

Picking your minimum iOS version to support

When a new iOS version arrives, it's oftentimes a moment to reflect on the supported iOS versions and see to ...
  •  6 min read / Workflow

OSLog and Unified logging as recommended by Apple

OSLog as a replacement of print and NSLog is the recommended way of logging by Apple. It's a bit harder ...
  •  6 min read / DebuggingWorkflow

Full-screen development with Xcode and the Simulator

While developing apps it's important to create focus to get in your flow and speed up development. Full-screen mode can ...
  •  2 min read / Workflow

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Optimize yourself and improve

App Icon Generator is no longer needed with Xcode 14

An App Icon Generator generates all required app icon sizes based on a single-size icon input file. Creating and dragging ...
  •  7 min read / OptimizationXcode

Increase App Ratings by using SKStoreReviewController

SKStoreReviewController allows asking your users for App Store ratings from within the app. Positive ratings can help your app stand ...
  •  6 min read / OptimizationSwift

Writing Swift Articles: Tips to become a better writer

Writing Swift articles is a great way to become a better engineer and is often seen as a required skill ...
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