Background Modes Tutorial, Transferable, Bottom Sheet API in SwiftUI, Variable Color SF Symbols and more!

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Background Modes Tutorial: Getting Started

In this tutorial, you’ll create an app that uses audio playback, location updates, critical tasks, and background fetch to learn about the most common background modes.

Articles

First Experience With Transferable Implementing Drag And Drop In SwiftUI

Get a first taste of the new Transferable protocol in SwiftUI, learning how to drag and drop objects of a custom Codable type using it.

Bottom sheet API in SwiftUI

Two years ago, I wrote a post about building a custom bottom sheet in SwiftUI. Nowadays, there is no need to make it manually, at least if you don’t need a super custom behavior. SwiftUI introduces a new API to display a bottom sheet in a few lines of code.

Modifier Monday: .accessibilityActions()

For this Modifier Monday entry, we look at a new iOS 16 toy, .accessibilityActions().

Hide keyboard when scrolling in SwiftUI with scrollDismissesKeyboard

In iOS, we have dedicated built-in ways to dismiss the keyboard in scrollable content. Let's learn how to set that in SwiftUI.

News & Updates

Variable Color in SF Symbols 4

Variable Color is a new feature of SF Symbols that allows you to change the appearance of a symbol based on a percentage value. Let's learn what it is and how to use it.

Debugging Tools to Push Your App Development Forward

Collar and Sentinel are two libraries for iOS developers that simplify analytics debugging.

Misc

Documentation Is the Key to Happy Coding

DocC is a fully integrated documentation environment for documenting public APIs for Swift frameworks and packages. Customize it to suit your project needs.