Issue 164
Apr 25, 2023

Engineers sharing experiences of unexpected behavior and bugs: it’s a great way to learn and prevent yourself from making the same mistake. Alexander Weiß shares his journey into what seemed to be a simple improvement.

I’m still wondering how many apps support App Clips and how successful they are. It’s either way great to see Natascha Fadeeva explaining how they work and how you can implement it in your apps.

Keith Harrison explains how the Mirror API prevents him from creating code clutter due to referencing and validating many child properties of a struct.

Apple updating SwiftUI documentation to clarify things makes our lives better! Jordan Morgan points out a recent change explaining how to use StateObjects with dependency injection.

Save a SwiftUI view to an image or a PDF using this article by Majid Jabrayilov. I’ve been using the same API for RocketSim to create screenshots with bezels, and it works great.

Get inspired by David Smith, who shares a speed run (speed up 20x video) of his design evolution for a new feature he built.

Keep yourself accountable and deliver a new TestFlight build to your users using this technique described by Pol Piella.

It would be best to read this article by Danijela Vrzan to speed up your login testing flow and be aware of the possibilities breakpoints can unlock. The commands can also be used inside the lldb console, so there’s much to learn!

Tjeerd in ’t Veen describes what I had to learn during my first weeks at WeTransfer. I was one of those: “Let’s use RxSwift; it’s cool!”. We decided to keep things simple, and I’m not regretting ever since.