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Using MetricKit

In this post, I will show you how to use MetricKit to collect and analyze performance data from your app.

What is MetricKit?

MetricKit is a framework introduced in iOS 13 that allows y

Understanding Sendable in Swift

With the introduction of Swift 5.5, Apple brought significant enhancements to concurrency, including the Sendable protocol and the @Sendable attribute. These additio

Understanding reducers in Swift

Reducers are a powerful concept in Swift, allowing developers to transform sequences of values into a single result.
This technique is particularly useful when you need to p

Translation framework in Swift

Exploring the Translation Framework in Swift

With the release of iOS 17.4, Apple introduced the Translation framework, a powerful tool that allows devel

Understanding assertions in Swift

Assertions are a powerful tool in Swift that help developers ensure their code behaves as expected during runtime. They allow you to test assumptions and catch potential issu

A Guide to UI Testing in Swift

User Interface (UI) testing is a crucial aspect of app development, ensuring that your app's interface behaves as expected under various conditions.
This guide will

iOS Settings URL's

This is a list of internal URLs for settings on your iPhone, iPad, ...
Please note that this list will be updated if required, if you see something which is not right, please drop

What is @frozen

In this post, we'll explore the `@frozen` attribute in Swift, a compiler directive that can be applied to `enum` declarations to optimize memory layout and improve performance. By marking an `

Enums

In this post, we'll explore enums in Swift, a powerful feature that allows you to define a group of related values. Enums are commonly used to represent a fixed set of options or states in your code, mak

Difference between map, flatMap, compactMap

In this post, we'll explore the differences between `map`, `flatMap`, and `compactMap` in Swift. These three methods are commonly used when working

CoreSpotlight

CoreSpotlight is a framework provided by Apple that allows you to index and search content within your app. It provides a way to make your app's content searchable and discoverable by use

@ViewBuilder in Swift

SwiftUI, Apple's declarative framework for building user interfaces, introduces several powerful tools to streamline UI development. One such tool is the `@ViewBuilder` attribute, w

Loging using OSLog

OSLog is a Swift API that provides a unified logging system for all Apple platforms. It is a replacement for the older `print` and `NSLog` functions. OSLog is a more efficient and secure log

Generics in Swift

Swift, offers a powerful feature called generics that greatly enhances code reusability, efficiency, and safety. In this blog post, we will dive deep into generics and explore how the

Variadic Parameters

These versatile constructs allow us to handle a variable number of arguments of the same type within a function.

What are Variadic Parameters?

In Swift, variadic parameters enable a fu

If case let

This concise syntax provides a convenient shortcut when you want to match a single case without writing a full-blown `switch` statement. Although it might seem a bit backward at first, once you grasp its

self, Self, and Self.self in Swift

Let's dive into the fascinating world of `self`, `Self`, and `Self.self` in Swift. These seemingly similar constructs have distinct meanings and use cases.

What is `self

ExpressibleByStringLiteral URL

The ExpressibleByStringLiteral protocol is a powerful feature in Swift that allows us to create custom types directly from string literals. Essentially, i

Subscripts in Swift

Subscripts provide a convenient way to access the elements of a collection, list, or sequence directly by index. Whether you’re dealing with arrays, dictionaries, or custom types, subscripts al

Default values for UserDefaults

UserDefaults (NSUserDefaults) is a go-to database for saving users' preferences over application behavior.

What is UserDefaults?

UserDefaults is a simple key-

TipKit

Let's delve into the fascinating world of TipKit, a powerful framework that empowers developers to create and customize app tips.
Whether you're aiming to introduce new features, reveal hidden f

Localizing In Xcode

Localizing and Varying Text with a String Catalog

Your app's success hinges on delivering an exceptional experience to users across different locales. Localization is

Translating closures to async

In this post, we will discuss how to translate closures to async in Swift.

What is continuation?

In Swift, a continuation is a construct that allows you to suspend and resu

Aurora Editor

Aurora Editor: A Swift-Powered IDE for Efficient Coding

Introduction

As developers, we're always on the lookout for tools that enhance our productivity, streamline our workf

SimpleNetworking

Today i write about my Swift package .
It's a simple networking library for Swift it is a wrapper around URLS

@dynamicMemberLookup

Let's delve into the fascinating world of Swift's `@dynamicMemberLookup`. This attribute, introduced in Swift 4.2, provides a powerful mechanism for accessing properties and

async/await

Let's delve into the fascinating world of Swift's async/await.
This powerful feature, introduced in Swift 5.5, revolutionizes asynchronous programming, making it more intuitive and r

Implementing Admob in SwiftUI

Recently i was working on a that required me to implement Admob in a SwiftUI app.

I encountered some issues while implementing Admob

OTP Code Generation with CryptoKit: A Swift Approach

Introduction

In the realm of secure authentication, One-Time Passwords (OTPs) play a crucial role. Whether it's two-factor authenticat

Snippet: @EnvironmentVariable

If you are creating commandline apps you sometimes need to acces the operating system environment variables, while you can use `get

Observable Geocoder

Firstly we want to import CoreLocation for the location services.

We're going to construct a basic class, which subclasses ObservableObject.


class Geocoder: ObservableOb

Easy Publishers

Ever wondered how to create a simple publisher?

In this blog i'll try to show you the basics

Firstly we need to import the required frameworks


// Used for the ObservableObject
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