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Open Sourcing isowords
We're open sourcing the entire code base to our newly released iOS word game, isowords!
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Articles
Using self, weak, and unowned in Combine
Series of Combine framework programming related blog posts.
How to resize a SwiftUI Image and keep its aspect ratio
Learn how to use aspect fit and aspect fill content mode to fit your image to its bounds.
Slow App Startup Times
Apple suggest to aim for a total app launch time of under 400ms and you must do it in less than 20 seconds or the system will kill your app.
Building an iOS App Without Xcode's Build System
A build system, despite its
scary-sounding
name, is just a regular program, which knows how to build other programs.
[weak self] is not always the solution
Instead of trying to come up with a blanket rule, I recommend trying to understand how references work and how retain cycles happen.
Tools & Libraries
swift-create-xcframework
Creates XCFramework bundles for the products in your Swift Package and uploads them as Artifacts you can attach to a release.
Other
Actors
Actors allow you as a programmer to declare that a bag of state is held within a concurrency domain and then define multiple operations that act upon it.
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Previous Issues
Apr 8
Collections, Numerics & Algorthms
Apr 1
WWDC 21, Combline & Swift on Tap
Mar 25
Combine, Rethrow & Staying Productive
Mar 18
Actors, Isowords & Weak vs Unowned
Mar 11
Kin, Autoclosure & ZStack Animations
Mar 4
ObjC bridging, App size & Cookies
Feb 25
Ignoring invalid JSON elements when using Codable
Feb 18
24 Tips, Keyboard Navigation & Concurrency in Swift
Feb 11
Playgrounds, Cancellables & 5 Steps to Better SwiftUI Views
Feb 4
What’s new in Swift 5.4?
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