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SPM, Github, internal dependencies & SSH auth

SPM, Github, internal dependencies & SSH auth

Ever tried using Swift Package Manager with dependencies hosted on Github while using SSH? And resolving subdependencies when adding a SPM package through Xcode? Still having nightmare about it? Dry your tears and cry no more: you've come to the right place.

Types are nice: recursive types, in Swift

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

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

Digital painting of a computer board, the CPU bursting into flames and about to me

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

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.

Convert between image (pixels) and scaleAspectFit UIImageView coordinates like a champ!

Convert between image (pixels) and scaleAspectFit UIImageView coordinates like a champ!

When working with images in iOS, it's sometimes necessary to convert between an image's pixel coordinates and the coordinates of the UIImageView that displays the image. Here's how to do it.

Preserve your images' transparency when saving and sharing them, in Swift

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.