Unwrapping Any, in Swift
If Any is not nil, except when it is, how do we check it and unwrap the underlying?
Types are nice: recursive types, in Swift
What's a recursive type, what is it useful for, and how can we implement and use one in Swift? Let's find out!
Fooling around with masks & shadows in SwiftUI
Dive into the technical world of SwiftUI where masks meet shadows. Learn how to creatively manipulate visual elements for stunning interfaces with our comprehensive tutorial, featuring easy-to-follow examples
Halt and Catch Fire: A SwiftUI @StateObject counterexample
Learn how to avoid some trivial SwiftUI state management pitfalls from a dead-simple counterexample of misusing @ObservedObject in SwiftUI
Conditionally debounce value updates, in Swift
Improve your iOS app's performance and enhance your users' experience by learning how to conditionally debounce events.
Also, it's a panacea that solves everything. Ok, almost everything. Depending on how you look at it.
Preserve your images' transparency when saving and sharing them, in Swift
Loosing your rounded corners or transparent background when saving an image to the user's photo library or sharing it with UIActivityViewController? It's because it's be turned into a JPEG. Here's how to solve that.
Add a height-flexible placeholder to your UITextView
Once you have tasted SwiftUI, this kind of UIKit lacking makes you wish you could refactor a client's whole codebase at a snap from your fingers. At least the UI side of it. But, alas, there is no magic spell for that. Yet.
What kind of lacking? UITextView
