Tag Archives: xcode

Creating an XCFramework

In the past couple of years, I’ve had the occasion to want to make an XCFramework – a bundle that’s used by Apple platforms to encapsulate binary frameworks or libraries – a couple of times. In both cases, the reason wasn’t that I didn’t want to ship the source, but because the source was fromContinue reading “Creating an XCFramework”

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”

SceneKit interaction handling – Experiment439

A staple of science fiction movies has been 3D holographic visualizations and controls. Most efforts I’ve seen at taking real visualization data and putting them into a 3D context haven’t been terribly successful. At the same time, the advance of AR and VR makes me suspect that we should be able to take advantage ofContinue reading “SceneKit interaction handling – Experiment439”

IOS 12 DevNote: Embedded Swift Frameworks and bitcode

A side project for the barista’s at my favorite haunt has been a fun “getting back into it” programming exercise for IOS 12. It’s a silly simple app that checks the status of the network and if the local WIFI router is accessible, and provides some basic diagnostic and suggestions for the gang behind theContinue reading “IOS 12 DevNote: Embedded Swift Frameworks and bitcode”

Vapor 3 and a few random experiments

This past week I dug more deeply into server-side swift, specifically with Vapor 3. Vapor was interesting because it recently built over SwiftNIO, and initial reports of its performance were very positive. A highly performant HTTP application based framework in a memory safe language? Worth a look! I have used dynamically typed languages (NodeJS/TypeScript/Javascript andContinue reading “Vapor 3 and a few random experiments”

tweaking XCode build configurations (aka Info.plist is missing)

When I start a new project in XCode, it always sort of bugs me that so many things are tossed into the main project directory. I suspect I’m not alone there. To resolve that, one of the first things that I do is start organizing stuff. Two folders immediately get created: “resources” and “src”. IContinue reading “tweaking XCode build configurations (aka Info.plist is missing)”