Mastering Dynamic Island in SwiftUI, Gauges, Swift's print(), debugPrint(), String(reflecting:), Mirror(reflecting:) and dump(), Static and Dynamic linking in CocoaPods, iOS 16

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Mastering Dynamic Island in SwiftUI

In the previous post, we talked about live activity widgets displaying your app’s ongoing events. Live activity widgets can utilize the dynamic island of the iPhone 14 Pro. In this post, we will discuss possible configurations and customization points of the dynamic island feature using the new API available in the WidgetKit framework.

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Swift’s print(), debugPrint(), String(reflecting:), Mirror(reflecting:) and dump()

Every codebase under the sun on God’s green earth uses print statements to wrangle bugs. Let’s look at the tools that Swift has for such cases.

How to check if String is Number in Swift

Learn different ways to check if a string is a number.

How to Use SwiftUI Gauge and Create Custom Gauge Styles

In this tutorial, we'll check out SwiftUI Gauge views, which is a new feature introduced in iOS 16. You'll learn how to use Gauge to create a speedometer.

Size Matters: An Exploration of Virtual Memory on iOS

I ran into an odd out-of-memory problem the other day when attempting to debug an iOS app on device. The app consistently crashed shortly after launch, preventing me from investigating the bug. To unblock myself, I learned a lot about the iOS virtual memory implementation and journaled my findings (including a fix!) here.