AppCoda Weekly - Issue #124

Other than using UIView animation, do you use UIViewPropertyAnimator to create animations in your app AppCoda Weekly - Issue #124 By [AppCoda Weekly]( • Issue #124 • [View online]( Other than using UIView animation, do you use UIViewPropertyAnimator to create animations in your apps? This is not a brand-new API. UIViewPropertyAnimator has been around since the release of iOS 10. If you still haven’t checked it out and learned how to use it, we have written a tutorial for you. Please remember to take a look, along with other great tutorials we collected for you. Have fun and enjoy the tutorials! Talk soon, Simon Tutorials [Advanced Animations with UIViewPropertyAnimator]( [Advanced Animations with UIViewPropertyAnimator]( Animations are cool. They are an important part of iOS Human Interface Guidelines. Animations help you to draw user’s attention to important things or just add some fun to your app. In this tutorial, we will discuss with you another exciting way to animate your views – UIViewPropertyAnimator. [www.appcoda.com]( • [Share]( [Flow Coordinator Pattern On Steroids]( [Flow Coordinator Pattern On Steroids]( Explore how to use flow coordinator pattern with a native navigation bar and swipe back action. [medium.com]( • [Share]( [iOS Logging Practices]( [iOS Logging Practices]( This article contains few important tips about how to create log messages in your iOS application to make finding information for debugging quick and easy. [www.netguru.com]( • [Share]( [“Just Point It”: Machine Learning On iOS With Pose Estimation + OCR Using Core ML And ML Kit]( [“Just Point It”: Machine Learning On iOS With Pose Estimation + OCR Using Core ML And ML Kit]( A look at “Just Point It”, an iOS app that leverages machine learning to allow users to point at text on a paper document and look up the word that’s being pointed at. [heartbeat.fritz.ai]( • [Share]( [Xcode Build Configuration Files]( [Xcode Build Configuration Files]( Want to learn more about build settings? Take a look at this article that shows you how to use text-based xcconfig files to externalize build settings from Xcode to make your projects more compact, comprehensible, and powerful. [nshipster.com]( • [Share]( [Ordered Collection Diffing]( Determining and applying differences between states often requires a lot of error-prone, complex code. However see how calculating diffs in Swift 5.1 just got a whole lot easier. [thoughtbot.com]( • [Share]( [Disposing RxSwift’s Memory Leaks]( [Disposing RxSwift’s Memory Leaks]( Learn how to track down memory leaks in your iOS app, and more specifically, your RxSwift-based code base. [medium.com]( • [Share]( [Weak Self And Unowned Self Explained In Swift]( [Weak Self And Unowned Self Explained In Swift]( When to use weak self? When to use unowned self? How to prevent retain cycles? Everything is explained in this blog with code examples and detailed explanations. [www.avanderlee.com]( • [Share]( [The Usefulness Of Typealiases In Swift]( [The Usefulness Of Typealiases In Swift]( There’re many situations where typealias can become particularly useful as explained in this tutorial. [appventure.me]( • [Share]( [Extracting View Controller Actions In Swift]( [Extracting View Controller Actions In Swift]( Take a look at a technique that lets you extract your view controllers’ core actions, without having to introduce any additional abstractions or architectural concepts. [www.swiftbysundell.com]( • [Share]( [Refactoring iOS App With Coordinator Pattern For Navigation]( [Refactoring iOS App With Coordinator Pattern For Navigation]( Get an overview of the Coordinator and learn how to refactor an app that uses standard storyboard segue to navigate between view controller. [medium.com]( • [Share]( [Type-Safe Resources With SwiftGen]( [Type-Safe Resources With SwiftGen]( There’s a great little library that will generate classes for accessing your resources, making them type-safe. Learn how to make type-safe resources with SwiftGen. [agostini.tech]( • [Share]( [iOS Coordinators: A Storyboard Approach]( [iOS Coordinators: A Storyboard Approach]( This post examines the pros and cons of the coordinator pattern, Xcode storyboards, and how to leverage the benefits of both. [thoughtbot.com]( • [Share]( [Advanced Debugging With Xcode]( [Advanced Debugging With Xcode]( In this article, level up your debugging skills by exploring a little bit about LLDB and why it is important for you to know a little more about it. Also learn what Xcode offers through their UI to make things easier for you. [medium.com]( • [Share]( Ads/ Sponsored [Beginning iOS 12 Programming With Swift]( [Beginning iOS 12 Programming With Swift]( Thanks for your support. We’ve reached another milestone. Over 14,000 customers purchased our books/course to learn iOS app development. Written for beginners, our course takes you from zero programming experience to becoming a professional iOS developer. This course includes one year free update and is now updated for Swift 5. Join us and let’s Swift together! [www.appcoda.com]( • [Share]( UI/ UX [UI Patterns For Navigation That Makes Good UX Sense]( [UI Patterns For Navigation That Makes Good UX Sense]( In this article, look at the different types of mobile app navigation patterns, their functionalities, and their advantages. [usabilitygeek.com]( • [Share]( [All You Need To Know About Colors In UI Design]( [All You Need To Know About Colors In UI Design]( A nice collection of tips, theory, best practices and examples about how to use color to design interfaces. [uxdesign.cc]( • [Share]( [Designing A Dark Theme For OLED iPhones]( [Designing A Dark Theme For OLED iPhones]( True dark themes are quite a rage for apps that run on OLED devices like iPhone X. However discover why using black backgrounds for your true-dark theme is a bad idea for user experience. [medium.com]( • [Share]( [How We Built The Swell iOS App]( [How We Built The Swell iOS App]( Keaton Herzer shares his launch of the Swell iOS app and also shares about his team’s design process and approach to building it. [blog.prototypr.io]( • [Share]( Libraries [Chausie]( [Chausie]( Chausie is designed to be a simple and minimal implementation to make the flexible user interface. Chausie provides APIs for managing page content, and implementers can customize views. [github.com]( • [Share]( [Identity]( And small library that makes it easy to create type-safe identifiers in Swift. [github.com]( • [Share]( [Ballcap-iOS]( [Ballcap-iOS]( Ballcap is a database schema design framework for Cloud Firestore. [github.com]( • [Share]( [PullToReach]( PullToReach is a simple drag-and-drop solution for adding pull-to-reach functionality to your app. [github.com]( • [Share]( Did you enjoy this issue? 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