Learning iOS and Swift · Day 24
Following Apple's SwiftUI tutorial, I explore the interoperability techniques used to embed SwiftUI components inside UIKit Controllers, and vice versa. The tutorial teaches how to build a carousel view, which I find pretty cool. I also learned how to overlay text and a gradient over an image.
2 min readLearning iOS and Swift · Day 23
I implemented saving data in the practice edit view.
I found out how to programmatically return from a NavigationLink.
Learning iOS and Swift · Day 22
I spent the whole evening going through tutorials and working on my side project, Ngöndro Tracker, leaving little time to post updates to the blog. Among others, I implemented a text field component with label, a helper to initialize colors from CSS hex strings, and began work on the view to edit practice settings.
3 min readLearning iOS and Swift · Day 21
Today I implemented persisting practice history each time the user adds some repetitions of a practice.
I also implemented a simple view for presenting those records.
I found out how to implement custom keys for Decodable data structures.
Learning iOS and Swift · Day 20
Following Apple's tutorial on graphics leaves me completely dumbfounded. Does it mean I will learn how to make stuff as pretty as Apple's native apps?
2 min readLearning iOS and Swift · Day 19
I implemented adding custom amounts of mantras or repetitions of practices to the Ngöndro Tracker using a wrapper for UIAlertController.
Learning iOS and Swift · Day 18
After following two parts of Apple's SwiftUI tutorial, I made some improvements to the first iteration of my side project, Ngöndro Tracker.
3 min readLearning iOS and Swift · Day 17
I found out some amazing SwiftUI tutorials from Apple, and they are free. I followed one along on the way to Cracow today.
1 min readLearning iOS and Swift · Day 16
Today I spent the whole evening working on my pet project, Ngöndro Counter. Therefore, the blog post will consist solely of the project update.
1 min readLearning iOS and Swift · Day 15
Brief progress update on issues from the book. I present the mobile app I want to work on henceforth.
1 min readLearning iOS and Swift · Day 14
I spent another evening treading through SQLite's low-level C APIs. I integrated a very naïvely written data store built with these APIs into a simple iOS GUI app. Finally, I found out how to detect dark mode on macOS using Swift APIs.
4 min readLearning iOS and Swift · Day 13
I intended to write about @AppStorage and @SceneStorage, but I ended up playing around with SQLite3 in C and Swift.
Learning iOS and Swift · Day 12
Describing observable objects, which act like event-driven data sources, and @EnvironmentObjects,
which expose a given object to the entire view tree.
Learning iOS and Swift · Day 11
Today I explore basic state management using @State, @Binding, and @Environment property wrappers.
Learning iOS and Swift · Day 10
In today's post I introduce the basic techniques used to translate strings within SwiftUI applications. I also present a simple component with an image placed in a circle.
2 min readLearning iOS and Swift · Day 9
Tips and tricks for synchronizing Xcode's keyboard shortcuts between devices, autoformatting Swift files in Neovim, and IntelliSense. Brief description of a prototype scene built along chapter 3 of SwiftUI Apprentice.
3 min readLearning iOS and Swift · Day 8
Following a tutorial from a book, I build a TabView with custom components and several predefined views and components from the SwiftUI framework.
3 min readLearning iOS and Swift · Day 7
In this post, I explain why I wrote almost nothing in terms of code today and why I decided to switch from UIKit to SwiftUI.
3 min readLearning iOS and Swift · Day 6
Briefly discussing structs and classes, with key differences, property and method declaration, and property observers.
3 min readLearning iOS and Swift · Day 5
Quick introduction to things you can do with Swift enumerations.
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