Swift Charts is a new framework by Apple allowing us to visualize our data in a declarative way using SwiftUI. The Swift Charts framework inherits from SwiftUI its declarative nature and the power of intelligent defaults. This week we will start with the basics of the Charts framework.
2022 has come to an end, and it is a perfect time for retrospective analysis. Today I want to review trends in iOS development over the past year that I notice while building my own apps or consulting others.
During the last weeks, we covered many aspects of building custom layouts using the new Layout protocol in SwiftUI. But we still have a lot to cover. This week we will learn how to use the LayoutValueKey protocol to pass custom layout parameters while composing views in the custom layout.
Multiple layouts allow us to compose views in different ways. One crucial thing is the spacing between children of the concrete layout. This week we will learn how to build a custom layout allowing us to specify a particular spacing between views and how to respect the platform-oriented predefined spacing rules in SwiftUI.
In the previous post, we talked about the basics of the new Layout protocol. Today I’m going to continue the series of posts about the new opportunity to build super-custom reusable layouts by covering the idea of caching layout information and tuning its performance.
Nowadays, SwiftUI provides the Layout protocol allowing us to build super-custom layouts by digging into the layout system without using GeometryReader. Layout protocol brings us the incredible power of building and reusing any layout you can imagine. This week we will learn how to use the new Layout protocol to build a flow layout in SwiftUI.
One of the significant additions to the current iteration of the SwiftUI framework was window management APIs. We can open a separate window using the new environment APIs and create a menu bar app using the new scene APIs. This week we will learn how to use new window management APIs in SwiftUI.
My final post in the new navigation APIs series in SwiftUI is about building two-three column apps. I have been waiting for all the betas to solve the critical issues with the brand-new NavigationSplitView, and it looks like it is almost ready to use. This week we will learn how to use and customize NavigationSplitView to build multi-column apps in SwiftUI.
SwiftUI provides us with a brand new data-driven navigation API allowing us to map a value to a destination in the view hierarchy. This week I want to continue the story of the new navigation API in SwiftUI by covering another tool. We will learn how to use the NavigationPath type to build a navigation stack with different destinations.
In the previous post, we talked about live activity widgets displaying your app’s ongoing events. Live activity widgets can utilize the dynamic island of the iPhone 14 Pro. In this post, we will discuss possible configurations and customization points of the dynamic island feature using the new API available in the WidgetKit framework.