Xcode DocC - Getting Started Available in Xcode 13, the DocC documentation compiler converts Markdown-based text into developer documentation for Swift frameworks and packages and displays it in the Xcode documentation window. In this post, Keith Harrison runs through an example of using DocC to help us get started. Posted on July 25, 2021 | spm xcode
Using MapKit with SwiftUI Apple continues to encourage the adoption of SwiftUI by creating more SwiftUI integrations for UIKit frameworks. In this post, Majid Jabrayilov describes the functionality available in the new SwiftUI Map type, which can be used to display MapKit maps in our SwiftUI apps. It's great to see more and more SwiftUI types like this, avoiding the need to mix SwiftUI and UIKit implementations. Posted on August 6, 2020 | swiftui xcode mapkit
How SwiftUI can now be used to build entire iOS apps At this year's WWDC20, SwiftUI received some very impressive updates. One of them is the ability to create an entry point for an app without needing to rely on UIKit/AppKit. What this means is that we can now build an entire app using SwiftUI. In this post, John Sundell shows us how simple it is to build such an app. Posted on July 5, 2020 | swiftui ios14 xcode wwdc20
Add custom SwiftUI view to View Library with LibraryContentProvider Xcode's library allows us to quickly access commonly used SwiftUI system elements such as views and modifiers. New to iOS 14 and Xcode 12 is the ability to add our own custom SwiftUI views to the library. This post from Sarun shows us how to do it. Posted on July 4, 2020 | ios14 xcode swiftui
Building a silly WatchKit App Erica Sadun with a short post describing her efforts to build a simple WatchKit app using SwiftUI. The amount of code required to implement her app was small, about 40 lines, but Erica encountered some problems when trying to deploy her app to hardware for testing. Posted on June 24, 2020 | swiftui xcode watchkit
Getting the most out of Xcode Previews for SwiftUI John Sundell shows us a number of techniques and abstractions to help us make the most of Xcode 11's Preview feature. As always, John provides lots of code snippets which we can immediately start using in our own code. Posted on June 1, 2020 | ios xcode swiftui
Improving Your Build Time in Xcode 10 Patrick Balestra teaches us how to improve our Swift project build times using new features available in Xcode 10. Posted on September 11, 2018 | iOS Xcode
Conditional Compilation in Swift, Part 1 Dave Delong has developed his own way of conditionalizing compilation of Swift code when using Xcode. Dave shows us how we can use configuration files settings together with certain build settings to conditionally compile code based on the platform being targeted. Posted on August 8, 2018 | compilation Xcode
Code Injection In Swift Christoffer Winterkvist describes how we can use the Swift Vaccine library together with the Injectionlll macOS app to achieve code injection, or hot reloading, in our Xcode projects. This is pretty cool, and I can definitely see this being used in my day to day development. Posted on June 9, 2018 | injection Xcode
What’s new in Swift 4.1 Xcode 9.3 beta is now available, and with it comes the latest point release of Swift - Swift 4.1. In this post, Paul Hudson runs through what he considers to the the top three new features of Swift 4.1. Posted on January 27, 2018 | xcode beta