Posts from 2021
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Simplifying Backwards Compatibility in Swift
Every year as new OS and Swift versions are released, the question comes up over and over again: “how do I use this new thing while also supporting older versions?”. While we have a bunch of “availability” tools at our disposal (and I’ll be using them in this post), they always come across as somewhat cumbersome: we need to do inline checks, or we have conditional logic flow that obfuscates the intent of some of our code, and so on.
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Core Data and SwiftUI
In the previous post, I shared how you can create custom property wrappers that will work with SwiftUI’s view updating mechanism. I wrote that because I’ve got one other neat property wrapper to share, but understanding how it works requires knowing how to make custom wrappers. Now that I’ve got that out of the way…
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Custom Property Wrappers for SwiftUI
As I’ve been working with SwiftUI, I’ve come up with some custom property wrappers that I want to share with you. Most of these are property wrappers that can be easily accomplished using other approaches, but I like these for their expressivity.
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Exploiting String Interpolation For Fun And For Profit
A while ago I was playing around with Swift’s string interpolation functionality and come up with something cool I thought I’d share with you.