SwiftUI Weekly - Issue #33

The curated collection of links about SwiftUI. Delivered every Monday.

Reading

The magic of redacted modifier in SwiftUI

Redacted modifier is the thing that will have a great impact on how iOS apps handle loading states. During WWDC20, Apple showed us the easy way of hiding the data from home-screen widgets using the redacted modifier. Today we will talk about using the redacted modifier to hide sensitive data and handle loading states.

Hashable SwiftUI bindings

We’ve previously covered how to add optional bindings to SwiftUI views using DisclosureGroup as an example.

Adapting to SwiftUI View Lifecycle

For an iOS developer working with UIKit and View Controllers, lifecycle events are a relevant piece of code to implementing any kind of view really.

Basics of SwiftUI Animation

Animating is quite different in SwiftUI than with UIKit.. While The syntax is mostly easy to understand, but the logic is so different that it takes time (and nerves) to master.

Adding Shortcuts To An App

Since then, iOS14 has been released along with some exciting new features in Shortcuts, which are detailed in the 'What's New In SiriKit & Shortcuts' video from WWDC 2020.

Preparing Views for Localization

Specify hints and add strings to localize your SwiftUI views.

Applying Custom Fonts to Text

Add and use a font in your app that scales with Dynamic Type.

Code

SwiftCamera: The source project for the SwiftCamera tutorial

SwiftUI has proven to be a really awesome new framework to build and design apps in a quick and reliable way. Nonetheless, it is still in its infancy and Apple needs to add more support for other framework integrations as it did recently with the new Sign In With Apple button in SwiftUI 2.0. In this project we'll learn how to integrate AVFoundation's AVCameraSession with SwiftUI so we can create reusable, extendable modern components for apps that need to use our device's cameras.

Video

SwiftUI Tutorial: Core Concepts: AnimatableModifier

In this episode we're going to look at the AnimatableModifier protocol, why we need it, and how to implement it. Hopefully this will clear up a lot of the confusion regarding animations in SwiftUI.

Grocery App - Setting Up Firebase with Xcode 12

In this video, Mohammad Azam will demonstrate how to setup Firebase with Xcode 12. Azam will also demonstrate how to fix the current errors in Firebase related to Xcode 12.