SwiftUI Animation Basics: Building a Loading Indicator
Have you ever used the magic move animation in Keynote? With magic move, you can easily create slick animation between slides. Keynote automatically analyzes the objects between slides and renders the animations automatically. To...
How to Reuse SwiftUI Views with LibraryContentProvider and Swift Package
WWDC 2020 introduced several new features and improvements in the entire spectrum of develpment in Apple ecosystem, and definitely every developer found lots of things to get excited with. One of those features regard Xcode 12...
Using MusicKit and Apple Music API to Build a Music Player
Hey everyone and welcome back to the second and final part of this tutorial series where we explore the intricacies of Apple’s MusicKit by building our very own music player in SwiftUI that can stream songs from our Apple Music...
Using LinkPresentation Framework to Present Rich Links in iOS Apps
While I’ve introduced you quite a number of new features announced in WWDC 2020. Let’s step back a bit and check out a useful framework introduced in WWDC 2019. At first glance, it does not look as significant or...
Using Packages to create an installer for distributing macOS apps outside of the Mac App Store
macOS developers will most likely be faced with the requirement to build an installer for apps they want to — or must — distribute outside of the Mac App Store (MAS). There is also substantial economic incentive to...
Using SwiftUI TextEditor for Multiline Text Input
The first version of SwiftUI doesn’t come with a native UI component for multiline text field. For multiline input, you can wrap a UITextView from the UIKit framework and make it available to your SwiftUI project by...
Building an Expandable List View with Inset Grouped Style Using SwiftUI
SwiftUI list is very similar to UITableView in UIKit. In the first release of SwiftUI, Apple’s engineers already made creating list view construction a breeze. You do not need to create a prototype cell and there is no...
Building Collection Views in SwiftUI with LazyVGrid and LazyHGrid
The initial release of SwiftUI didn’t come with a native collection view. You can either build your own solution or use third party libraries. In this year’s WWDC, Apple introduced tons of new features for the SwiftUI...
Beyond App Sandbox: Going outside of the macOS app container
Did you know that a macOS app can read and write outside of its container when sandboxed? Did you know that a non-sandboxed macOS app has no container? Were you aware that you can sell and distribute non-sandboxed macOS apps...
How to Access Photo Library and Use Camera in SwiftUI
Earlier, we explored the use of UIViewRepresentable and show you how to integrate UITextView into a SwiftUI project. While you can use the UIViewRepresentable protocol to wrap a UIKit view, but how about a view controller? You...