60+ Free Daily Coding Tips For Swift Developers

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1. Use SwiftUI To Display The Current Time With TimelineView

2. Using Plot To Write HTML With Swift On A Vapor Server

3. Push An Initial Commit To a New GitHub Remote With a Single Shell Command

4. Break SwiftUI's 10 Child View Limit By Extending ViewBuilder

5. Use SwiftUI and Machine Learning To Identify Nearly 1,000 Objects With Your Camera

6. Create a SwiftUI Timer That Counts Down To WWDC 2022

7. Proportional Padding That Scales With a SwiftUI View

8. WWDC22: Use The New For In Try Await

9. WWDC22: Get Started With WeatherKit

10. WWDC22: Create a SwiftUI Chart With a Form For Changing Data

11. WWDC22: Use The 'any' Keyword For Any Type That Conforms To a Protocol With An Associated Type

12. WWDC22: Use The New Clock API To Delay Execution Of Code

13. WWDC22: Use The New CircleLayout To Equally Space Views Around A Specific Radius

14. WWDC22: Use 'if let' Without Restating The Name of The Optional

15. Make The New Color Gradient Easier To Use By Conforming To View

16. Use a Custom Type To Populate The New Grid Layout With Data

17. Using The Never Type To Deal With Fatal Errors

18. Use @FocusState and @Binding To Control TextField Focus From Any Other View

19. Change The Background of a List With BackgroundContent

20. Use The ColorScheme Placeholders Color.primary and Color.secondary

21. Change Form Appearance With FormStyle In iOS 16

22. Using The Charts API To Display Stacked Bars

23. Fade and Slide Views With The New Push Transition In iOS 16

24. Using .backgroundPreferenceValue To Create a Background Based On a PreferenceKey In iOS 16

25. Using Find & Replace and Hiding Replace With .replaceDisabled

26. Align Grid Cells Relative To Their Columns With HorizontalAlignment

27. Dismiss The Search Bar With a DismissSearchAction

28. Use .hueRotation To Colour Shift Using An Angle

29. React To Network Status Changes With NWPathMonitor and SwiftUI

30. Use a Static Subscript To Access Values On a Type

31. How To Use Multiple Trailing Closures and Know Which Ones Need Labels

32. Using The @ViewBuilder Attribute Only When It's Absolutely Necessary

33. Literally Modify Colours Inside of Code Files With #colorLiteral

34. Use Introspect To Modify The UIKit Views Inside Common SwiftUI Controls

35. Store 5 Basic Data Types Persistently With @SceneStorage

36. How To Stop Using Spacer And Only Use .frame() For Any Layout

37. Use a Protocol To Define Button Requirements

38. Using Optional Try? Instead of Do-Catch

39. Use .layoutPriority To Specify Which View Occupies The Most Available Space

40. Dismiss The Keyboard When Scrolling a ScrollView

41. Use MapKit To Display Maps In SwiftUI

42. Use Transactions To Modify Animations Encapsulated By Subviews

43. Determine Device Rotation With Processed Device Motion Data

44. Generate Colour Schemes With AI

45. Disable Movement For Specific Items In An Editable List

46. Use a Menu Bar Button To Toggle The Visibility of a macOS App

47. Add Buttons To a Slider To Quickly Set The Minimum and Maximum Values

48. Create a SwiftUI YouTube Player

49. Control Whether SwiftUI List Row Separators Are Visible

50. Create a Custom Slider From Scratch

51. How To Use If Case Let In a Multi-Clause If Condition

52. Make an Alert That Can Be Thrown Away

53. Add a Pressed State To a Button With a Long Press Gesture

54. Check For Attribute Availability With hasAttribute

55. Run Functions Anywhere In The View Body

56. Use Any SF Symbol Safely With SFSafeSymbols

57. Create a Unix Timestamp to Date Converter With SwiftUI

58. Print To a Floating Popover With LocalConsole

59. Using The New @Observable Instead of Inheriting From ObservableObject

60. Use .matchedGeometryEffect To View Items In a LazyVGrid

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