Been having more fun with my SFSymbol browser app for iPhone and now iPad and MacOS. Not sure where I am going with this, but it keeps me busy for now. For the Mac app, ChatGPT and I have become close friends. #Swift #SwiftUI #iOSDev

I'm building a new macOS app that makes it easy to make informative descriptions of images. It's perfect for alt text.

Beta coming soon. Let me know if you'd like to join.

New Video for iOS Devs!

Learn how to write flexible & efficient dynamic queries using SwiftData — perfect for building scalable SwiftUI apps.

Dynamic conditions
Clean, reusable logic
Real-world SwiftUI examples
Watch now https://youtu.be/s-a9pPD_41U

If you want to learn more about SwiftUI inspectors, read the following article:

https://www.createwithswift.com/presenting-an-inspector-with-swiftui/

A proper Mac app deserves some proper documentation so I'm going overboard creating a help book for Cartographer.

None of that link to a webpage stuff here.

Trying to find some joy in that second 90% of the project…

How do you change the accessibility language used by VoiceOver with SwiftUI? #SwiftUI #iOSDev
https://useyourloaf.com/blog/swiftui-accessibility-language/

Xcode 16 introduced the Previewable macro, making it easier to preview #SwiftUI views with bindings. By annotating dynamic properties like @State in a Preview body with @Previewable, we can pass them as bindings to views directly:
https://nilcoalescing.com/blog/PreviewSwiftUIViewsWithBindings/

I filed a Feedback and Apple fixed my problem!

...months after they told me it wasn't a problem, closing my feedback internally and preventing me from continuing the dialogue.

https://gist.github.com/ryanlintott/54f94bb45afebf824723847154195b75?permalink_comment_id=5523661#gistcomment-5523661

Getting Started: macOS Apps with SwiftUI http://leanpub.com/courses/leanpub/macos-apps-with-swiftui by Grace Huang is the featured online course on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com #macOS #programming #SwiftUI

If you have any previews in your #Xcode projects that are using the `return someView{}` syntax the latest update will return an error for this.

The error is that you are not returning a `some SwiftUI.View` type regardless if the view you are returning is in fact a SwiftUI.View.

I've not refactored my code around this yet but if you have this sort of pattern you may want to hold off on updating

QuickSearch 0.4 is out! This is a #SwiftUI SDK that lets you type into a .searchable text field by just typing, without first having to focus on the text field. It's good for content-based views without any other text fields.
https://github.com/danielsaidi/QuickSearch

Just moved over from mastodon.design, so it's time for another #introduction!

I'm Toni

I’m a software designer, though I’m spending more and more time writing code, mostly in #swiftui and #react

When I'm not heads down at work, you'll catch me #cycling, eating my weight in oranges, walking with my #schnauzer named Xenon, or just getting lost in a new #book, #anime, or #manga.

I’m also a passionate #yugioh collector, #nba fan and I play #guitar occasionally.

→ https://www.toni.li/about

PrintingKit 0.7 is out! This is an open-source #Swift & #SwiftUI SDK that lets you print images, texts, attributed strings, PDF, and SwiftUI views directly from your app. This new version simplifies the library and adds support for printing images & views with less work.
https://github.com/danielsaidi/PrintingKit

I often see SwiftUI examples using + to combine Text views and style individual segments. While this works, it has limitations with localized text. I wrote a post discussing why text interpolation is often a better choice in these situations: https://nilcoalescing.com/blog/TextConcatenationVsTextInterpolationInSwiftUI/
#SwiftUI #iOSDev

I spent today creating a version of the SFSymbols app that I think is going to meet my needs better. I am wondering if there would be any interest in an inexpensive #Swift / #SwiftUI course to learn how to do this for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Let me know with a comment!! #iOSDev