iOS Development Tips Weekly

Create faster, more reliable, and better-looking apps for iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch. Get weekly iOS development tips to improve the way you code with Xcode and Swift.

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Introduction

• Welcome
• How to use the exercise files

iOS Development Tips Weekly

• Use Xcode Git repositories
• Read and write text files
• Prototyping MapKit in iPad Playgrounds
• Use the Xcode 9 simulators
• Layout and iPhone X
• Use markers instead of pins for map annotations
• Read JSON files
• Copy and paste with the pasteboard
• Create navigation controllers
• Make a camera on iPad
• Tricks with Asset Manager
• Array tricks
• Apple watch and the context menu
• Image and color literals
• Why use uint8?
• Using hex color
• Deep dive into dictionaries
• Tapping a map
• Update old apps
• Using Apple Pencil
• Animated emoji on the Apple Watch
• The navigation bar and back title
• Using property lists
• Using popovers
• Attributed string jazz
• 3D text with SceneKit
• Find a language quickly from text
• UIColor class extensions
• Using Date and TimeInterval
• Time zones and date components
• Timer accuracy
• Animate maps
• Xcode 10 storyboard changes
• Use code snippets
• Changes to playgrounds in Xcode 10
• Permission changes to notifications
• Customizing the tab bar
• The Settings bundle
• Use the speech synthesizer
• Make round buttons
• Recursion and changing UIViews
• Lay out iPad landscape and multitasking apps
• Embed table views
• Make a toggle button
• Drop shadows
• Blur and vibrancy effects
• Inequalities in Auto Layout for storyboards
• Make an animated settings drawer
• Views in playgrounds
• Launch the Settings app
• Draw paths in UIViews
• CALayer masks
• Protocols and time pickers
• Convert strings to time intervals
• Sliders as knobs
• Fix stackview disasters
• Using haptics
• Test flight
• Replacing segmented controls
• Ranges
• Unicode characters
• String and NSString characters
• Thrown errors
• Actions in table views
• Ducking sound in AVAudioSession
• Make and use closures
• Using ARC
• Create a project without a storyboard
• Learn how to rename identifiers
• Add a split-view controller programmatically
• Add dynamic type for accessibility
• Quickly identify a UIColor to RGB or HSB system
• Launch an alert from a closure and what to do about it
• Connect outlets and actions without the Assistant Editor
• Get BASIC with swift strings
• Convert CSV files
• Strings to doubles
• Enums
• Selection in text views
• Generate QR codes
• The ? and ?? operators in Swift
• String interpolation
• Xcode changes
• Use Dark Mode on storyboards
• Use SF Symbols
• Structs
• Quick SwiftUI
• Working with sets
• Segue Actions
• Checkboxes in SwiftUI
• To-do lists in SwiftUI
• Quick Help in SwiftUI
• Models in SwiftUI
• SwiftUI in Xcode Playgrounds
• Keyboard shortcuts for Xcode 11
• Basic PencilKit
• Setter and Getters
• UITextViews and coordinators
• Dark Mode in code
• Candle effects
• Reality Composer
• RealityKit
• NumberFormatter
• Tuples
• Protocols
• Property wrappers
• iPad to macOS
• Type properties
• Singletons and TabViewControllers
• UITabViewControllers in Swift Playgrounds
• Motion effects
• SwiftUI animation
• @Binding in public
• SwiftUI ScrollView
• MapKit points of interest
• UIKit extensions and pseudo SwiftUI
• SF Symbols configuration
• Custom SF Symbols
• Use SwiftUI GeometryReader
• Proportional SwiftUI views
• Button selection panels in SwiftUI
• Custom modifiers in SwiftUI
• Dependency injection
• Xcode themes
• Basic generics
• Selections in watchOS
• ForEach closures in SwiftUI
• SwiftUI borders and shapes
• SwiftUI gradients
• Special parameters
• Overriding operators
• Arrays with map, filter, and reduce
• Basic measurements
• Key paths
• Recursive structs
• Outline views in SwiftUI
• TextEditor and Scribble
• Color pickers
• Local notifications in SwiftUI
• Enums with values
• Changes to enums in Swift
• SwiftUI transitions for modal views
• Date pickers
• SwiftUI labels
• SwiftUI maps
• Collection views for SwiftUI
• Scribble bugs
• The joys of UUID
• SwiftUI swipe gesture
• Holiday special: Let it snow
• Embed images in SwiftUI text
• Make a widget, part 1: Presenting
• Make a widget, part 2: Families
• Make a widget, part 3: Timelines
• UICollectionView lists
• UICollectionView layout
• Menus on UIButtons
• MatchedGeometryEffect modifier
• Multicolor symbols
• Multiplatform Swift UI
• Documents in SwiftUI
• Keyboard shortcut modifier
• Text, Dynamic Type, and accessibility
• Photos picker
• What is Hashable?
• Add stickers to your app
• iPad Playgrounds...for Mac?
• Lazy variables
• Core graphics in SwiftUI
• SwiftUI checkboxes
• Core Graphics datatypes
• Setup for UIKit Drawing
• Practical CGRects
• Paths and contexts in CoreGraphics
• Distance-based graphics in CoreGraphics
• Recursive graphics
• CoreGraphics curves
• SwftUI maps and map zoom
• Maps and auto zoom
• Add pages in SwiftUI
• Closures in structs
• Xcode 13 changes
• New UIButton tricks
• SwiftUI Changes for iOS 15
• SF Symbols 3
• Swfit UI binding in lists
• TimelineView
• SwiftUI image concurrency
• SwiftUI Playgrounds
• Custom widgets with intents, part 1
• Custom widgets with intents, part 2
• Custom widgets with intents, part 3
• Color for accessibility
• UIStackView programmatically
• The new date formatter
• Number formatters
• Links in text
• Accessibility labels