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Swift Data: A New Era of Data Handling in Swift UI

Ever since humans started persisting data, it has been seen as an almost insurmountable task. Even SwiftUI, in all its glory, hasn't managed to fully solve this problem... yet. But with the introduction of Swift Data, those daunting times might be over for good, heralding a new golden

Use if/else and switch statements as expressions in Swift 5.9

Swift 5.9 brought an arsenal of enhancements to the already powerful and versatile language, but there's one in particular that has been long anticipated by developers. Swift now allows the use of if/else and switch statements as expressions, presenting an avenue to write more readable and

Harnessing the Power of Swift's Observable Macro in Swift 5.9

In the realm of programming, efficiency is key. Macros in Swift beautifully embody this concept by providing time-saving solutions to often repetitive and verbose code patterns. The Observable macro stands out as a particularly noteworthy tool, effectively streamlining the process of creating ObservableObjects. Consider the following conventional class declaration: class

Padding in SwiftUI: A Comprehensive Guide

There are plenty of ways to approach spacing in your SwiftUI views. You can use the Spacer() to align elements to the left or right or fill up the space between them, or you can set the value of the spacing property in your HStacks or VStacks to distribute their

Set TextField Focus in SwiftUI

Managing the focus of a TextField in SwiftUI has been a long-awaited feature, as it allows developers to create more user-friendly and intuitive interfaces. With the introduction of the @FocusState property wrapper and the focused modifier in SwiftUI 3 (iOS 15, macOS 12), developers can now easily control the focus

Element and Index: Enumerated ForEach in Swift UI

Looping through an array of elements to display them in a list is a very common and, thus, quite straightforward task in SwiftUI. One might think accessing the index of an elemen should be just as simple. But it's not… so let's discover it together. To

Using HEX Color Values in SwiftUI

Most often, when working on implementing a design in SwiftUI, you'll be faced with the challenge of somehow converting a HEX color value to something that is usable in SwiftUI. This seemingly simple task is surprisingly hard to achieve. Much harder than it probably should be because, for

Bundling Multiple Apps in One Package To Be Uploaded to the Mac App Store

There are times for one app and there are times for multiple apps. And there are times for multiple apps within one app. Throughout my journey as a Hobby-Mac-Developer, I repeatedly faced situations that required me to split my Mac app into multiple smaller apps that should be bundled within

Combining Multiple SwiftUI View Modifiers Into One

There comes a day in the life of a Swift developer when you find yourself writing the same set of ViewModifiers repeatedly to apply the same style to Stacks in different parts of your project. This can be not only tedious but also prone to visual inconsistencies. In the case

Creating Menu Bar Apps in SwiftUI for macOS Ventura

Creating menu bar extras for Swift UI Apps used to be a rather tedious task since there was no native SwiftUI solution to this problem. Instead, the MenuBarExtra had to be implemented in AppKit, requiring an AppDelegate file. With macOS 13 Ventura, though, Apple finally provides a way to do

Creating App Icons for macOS 11 and Up

With macOS Big Sur, Apple introduced a new, more streamlined way of doing app icons that comes with some caveats. In this article, I briefly want to share my learnings. There are a lot of app icon templates, especially in the Figma community, that look beautiful but lack some basic