The Complete Guide to PHPicker API in iOS 14
Importing photos and videos as media items is one of the most common features that the majority of iOS applications include. In general lines, there are two ways to do that; either by using a system-provided controller, or by...
Using Diffable Data Source with Collection Views
If you have some experience with iOS app development, you should be very familiar with the data source protocols such as UICollectionViewDataSource and UITableViewDataSource. Traditionally, to populate data in a collection view,...
SwiftUI Tab View: Building a Paged Scrolling View with PagedTabViewStyle
In the earlier tutorial, we showed you how to work with TabView to display a tab bar interface. In iOS 14, Apple introduced a new style called PageTabViewStyle in the SwiftUI framework for developers to create paged scrolling...
How to Draw Lines and Create Pie Charts Using SwiftUI
For experienced developers, you probably have used the Core Graphics APIs to draw shapes and objects. It’s a very powerful framework for you to create vector-based drawings. SwiftUI also provides several vector drawing APIs...
A Step by Step Guide on how to Create a XCFramework and Distribute it as a Swift package
In WWDC 2019, Apple announced a brand new feature for Xcode 11; the capability to create a new kind of binary frameworks with a special format called XCFramework. That was fantastic news to anyone, since an ongoing inconvenient...
Introducing SwiftUI TabView and Working with Tab Bar Customization
The tab bar interface appears in some of the most popular mobile apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. A tab bar appears at the bottom of an app screen and let users quickly switch between different functions of an app....
Using matchedGeometryEffect to Create View Animations in iOS 14
In iOS 14, Apple introduced a lot of new additions to the SwiftUI framework like LazyVGrid and LazyHGrid. But matchedGeometryEffect is the new one that really caught my attention because it allows developers to create some...
iOS 14 Updates in UIKit: ColorPicker, DatePicker, Menus and Actions
By the time SwiftUI was announced and given to developers in WWDC 2019, it was made obvious that this was going to be the future for developing applications for all Apple devices. However, even though SwiftUI might be the...
How to Customize the Appearance of SwiftUI Toggle
Earlier, we wrote a tutorial on customizing the appearance of a SwiftUI button. This week, let’s see how to customize the look & feel of a SwiftUI toggle. If you’ve read the tutorial, you know we can use a...
Deploying Mac Apps Outside App Store: How to Remember User Intent for Folders
When a macOS user specifically grants a sandboxed app access to a file/folder outside of that app’s container, that special access only survives until the app is closed. If the user reopens the app and wants to again read...