AppCoda Weekly - Issue #170

We received a number of emails asking if we accept guest post. Yes, we're always looking for develope AppCoda Weekly - Issue #170 By [AppCoda Weekly]( • Issue #170 • [View online]( We received a number of emails asking if we accept guest post. Yes, we’re always looking for developers to join our tutorial team. For details of the tutorial requirement, you can [check it out here](. This week, we’ve written a new tutorial about app group communication between macOS and iOS apps. And as usual, we’ve collected tons of great tutorials that will definitely help you improve the development skills. Lastly, don’t miss out our special sale (until Apr 12). For [all our books](, you can use the discount code 8YEAR at checkout to enjoy an extra discount. Talk soon, Simon Tutorials [Using App Groups for communication between macOS/iOS apps]( [Using App Groups for communication between macOS/iOS apps]( Apple’s “app group” technology allows a collection of macOS (or iOS) apps from the same development team, developer, vendor, etc., to all communicate with each other, coordinate functionality, share resources, and minimize redundancies. Andrew will walk you through the configuration and encoding of an app group whose members communicate through a shared instance of UserDefaults. [www.appcoda.com]( • [Share]( [Useful Global Swift Functions]( [Useful Global Swift Functions]( The Swift Standard Library still has quite a few public global functions, and some of them are still useful to this day. Take a look at functions like zip() and dump(). [swiftrocks.com]( • [Share]( [Emitting Errors And Warnings In Xcode Run Script Phase]( [Emitting Errors And Warnings In Xcode Run Script Phase]( This tutorial presents how to add a simple Run Script Phase and emit log, warning and error messages from it. [medium.com]( • [Share]( [SwiftUI ButtonStyle]( [SwiftUI ButtonStyle]( SwiftUI makes it very easy to customize a button style. Learn how to create a reusable button style in SwiftUI. [sarunw.com]( • [Share]( [Modern MVVM iOS App Architecture With Combine And SwiftUI]( [Modern MVVM iOS App Architecture With Combine And SwiftUI]( Learn how to build an iOS app with MVVM architecture pattern using Swift, Combine and SwiftUI with the complete sample project included. [www.vadimbulavin.com]( • [Share]( [Adding Your App’s Content To Spotlight]( [Adding Your App’s Content To Spotlight]( Learn how you can use user activities and CoreSpotlight to add your app’s content to the Spotlight index on iOS to help users find content in your app. [www.donnywals.com]( • [Share]( [Workaround For Swift Scripts Crashing After Update To Xcode 11.4]( [Workaround For Swift Scripts Crashing After Update To Xcode 11.4]( When you update to Xcode 11.4 that ships with Swift 5.2 you might notice that your Swift scripts all start crashing when accessing anything related to URL. Igor Kulman has found a workaround for this problem. [blog.kulman.sk]( • [Share]( [Hover Effect In SwiftUI]( [Hover Effect In SwiftUI]( This article helps you learn how to be a good iOS citizen and add support for the trackpad to your SwiftUI views. [swiftwithmajid.com]( • [Share]( [Implementing Mouse Pointer Interactions On iPad]( This is a very quick overview on how to implement custom pointer support on iPad for your apps. [rambo.codes]( • [Share]( [Implementing Dark Mode And Using CGColor]( [Implementing Dark Mode And Using CGColor]( When you go to implement Dark Mode in your apps, beware of custom view drawing code. If you find bugs like Jesse try searching for usage of .cgColor. [www.jessesquires.com]( • [Share]( [Getting Started With Combine]( [Getting Started With Combine]( Maybe you’re not yet ready to jump into SwiftUI but you can still get started with Combine. Here’s a gentle introduction to using Combine to validate user input. [useyourloaf.com]( • [Share]( [Keyboard And Combine]( [Keyboard And Combine]( Handling the keyboard on iOS is a rite of passage if not also a little tiresome. Fortunately, see how Combine makes it better. [www.swiftjectivec.com]( • [Share]( [How To Automate iOS App Development And Deployment Using A Pure Swift Tool — Puma]( [How To Automate iOS App Development And Deployment Using A Pure Swift Tool — Puma]( This post discusses what makes Puma different from other existing tools and covers some tips and tricks in order to work with this library more efficiently. [medium.com]( • [Share]( [Combine + Diffable Data Source]( Combine and diffable data sources are two powerful yet often-overlooked features that came out of WWDC 2019. Explore these two powerful native frameworks here. [thoughtbot.com]( • [Share]( [NSFetchedResultsController Extension To Observe Relationship Changes]( [NSFetchedResultsController Extension To Observe Relationship Changes]( Extend the NSFetchedResultsController to observe relationship changes based on key paths and automatically refresh related cells. [www.avanderlee.com]( • [Share]( [tintColor]( [tintColor]( This post introduces you to one of an essential part of iOS theming like what is tintColor and its benefit. [sarunw.com]( • [Share]( [No Headache: Auto Layout Tips In Interface Builder]( Recent versions of Xcode and Interface Builder are great visual tools to build auto layout UIs.Here are some auto layout tips in Interface Builder [aplus.rs]( • [Share]( [A Guide To The SwiftUI Layout System]( [A Guide To The SwiftUI Layout System]( Take a look at the SwiftUI layout system by starting to build a full-screen view from scratch. Along the way see how to use different techniques and APIs, which lets you explore the underlying rules of the SwiftUI layout system. [www.swiftbysundell.com]( • [Share]( [Swift Logging]( [Swift Logging]( Take a look at SwiftLog, a community-driven, open-source standard for logging in Swift. Any Swift code intended to be run from the command line would benefit from adopting SwiftLog. [nshipster.com]( • [Share]( [How To Use Binding In SwiftUI]( Do you know how to use Binding in SwiftUI? If not then this post is just for you. [samwize.com]( • [Share]( Ads/ Sponsored [Mastering SwiftUI]( [Mastering SwiftUI]( Learn how to build fluid UIs and a real world app with SwiftUI, Apple’s brand new framework introduced in iOS 13. Dive deep into SwiftUI and learn to develop UI in declarative syntax. You will work with various UI elements including Context Menu, List, ScrollView, etc, and learn how to create complex layouts with Stacks. [www.appcoda.com]( • [Share]( UI/ UX [With Love For The User: UI/UX Trends 2020]( [With Love For The User: UI/UX Trends 2020]( What UI/UX trends are relevant in development? Look at the most notable and useful trends to improve the user experience and create a sought after product. [uxplanet.org]( • [Share]( [Online Resources For Self-Isolated UI Designers]( [Online Resources For Self-Isolated UI Designers]( Instead of working crazy hours, you can now finally slow down and enjoy these great design content! [medium.muz.li]( • [Share]( [7 Laws Of UX Design And What Happens When You Break Them]( [7 Laws Of UX Design And What Happens When You Break Them]( In this article explore 7 UX design laws and see if popular flight booking websites follow these rules and if no, how the result looks like. [uxplanet.org]( • [Share]( Libraries [SourceKitForSafari]( [SourceKitForSafari]( SourceKit for Safari is a browser extension for GitHub, that enables IDE features on your browser such as symbol navigator, go to definition and documentation on hover. [github.com]( • [Share]( [AnyLint]( [AnyLint]( Lint anything by combining the power of Swift & regular expressions. [github.com]( • [Share]( [swift-outdated]( A swift subcommand for displaying when Swift dependencies are out of date. [github.com]( • [Share]( [ActivityIndicatorView]( [ActivityIndicatorView]( A number of preset loading indicators created with SwiftUI. [github.com]( • [Share]( [SwiftyMenu]( [SwiftyMenu]( Simple and Elegant Drop down menu for iOS [github.com]( • [Share]( Did you enjoy this issue? [AppCoda Weekly]( By [AppCoda Weekly]( Must-read Swift & iOS programming articles that take your skills to the next level. Deliver every Tuesday! [Tweet](    [Share]( If you don't want these updates anymore, please unsubscribe [here](. If you were forwarded this newsletter and you like it, you can subscribe [here](. Powered by [Revue](