A few weeks ago, I got curious about the MultipeerConnectivity framework available across Apple’s platforms. It’s a neat framework, and there are community-based libraries that layer over it to make it easier to use for some use cases: MultipeerKit (src) being the one that stood out to me. The promise of what this framework doesContinue reading “Exploring MultipeerConnectivity”
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How to make a SwiftUI component that draws a Shape with light
While I was experimenting with SwiftUI, one of the effects I wanted to re-create was taking a shape and making “stroke effects” on it. The goal was to create a SwiftUI component that could take an arbitrary path, apply this effect to the shape, and render it within the context of a larger SwiftUI view.Continue reading “How to make a SwiftUI component that draws a Shape with light”
Introducing and explaining the PreviewBackground package
While learning and experimenting with SwiftUI, I use the canvas assistant editor to preview SwiftUI views extensively. It is an amazing feature of Xcode 11 and I love it. There is a quirk that gets difficult for me though – the default behavior of the preview provider uses a gray background. I frequently use multipleContinue reading “Introducing and explaining the PreviewBackground package”
Four strategies to use while developing SwiftUI components
Lets start out with the (possibly) obvious: when I code, I frequently make mistakes (and fix them); but while I am going through that process function builders are frequently kicking my butt. When you are are creating SwiftUI views, you use function builders intensely – and the compiler is often at a loss to explainContinue reading “Four strategies to use while developing SwiftUI components”
SwiftUI and Combine – Binding, State, and notification of changes
When I started the project that became Using Combine, it was right after WWDC; I watched streamed WWDC sessions online, captivated like so many others about SwiftUI. I picked up this idea that SwiftUI was “built using the new framework: Combine”. In my head, I thought that meant Combine managed all the data – notificationsContinue reading “SwiftUI and Combine – Binding, State, and notification of changes”
Commodity and fashion with SwiftUI
I’m only just starting to dig into the new declarative UI framework that Apple announced at WWDC this year: SwiftUI, but already there are a few patterns emerging that will be fascinating to watch in the Mac & IOS development community in the coming months. The huge benefit of SwiftUI is, as a declarative framework,Continue reading “Commodity and fashion with SwiftUI”
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