Category: swift

Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. and the open-source community. First released in 2014, Swift was developed as a replacement for Apple’s earlier programming language Objective-C, as Objective-C had been largely unchanged since the early 1980s and lacked modern language features.

  • My thoughts on SwiftUI

    My thoughts on SwiftUI

    I recently completed one medium size SwiftUI project and, it was a wonderful experience with MVVM architecture. I took some time to grab everything, but my struggles been paid off.

    I no longer want to do a new project on the storyboard. You should not do it either. No fear just start you will finish it soon.

    Storyboard was some improvements than single xib file, at least you did not have to open many tabs for xib which always slowed down Xcode. But it was always like this on Apple platform since Xcode 3.2, developing app means you have to handle xib file.

    I always liked Android’s XML way than a xib file on a Xcode.

    I never liked the Auto Layout either, but it always worked on all devices. But I hated it when I had to break a few constraints to add a few more to make space for a new TextField or Image. It has never been easy.

    The most useful thing about SwiftUI that how easy it is to create a view and reuse it anywhere if you can make it in that way. The @Binding and @State are really helpful.

    And the ViewModel updates a model which your view observes always. So my ViewModel has a property @Published whenever it changes its all observers will get the update by calling the property @ObservedObject or @StateObject.

    The SwiftUI is very new but it is the best thing for app developers on Apple platforms. I even converting few more apps in SwiftUI in the coming months.

    Download a demo login app I’m working on from github.

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  • Radio Buttons group in SwiftUI

    Radio Buttons group in SwiftUI

    Radio Buttons group in SwiftUI

    Radio Buttons group in SwiftUI, is not hard to implement classic radio button group in your SwiftUI. Though this project is in very early stage, I will work on this in coming days to enhance its features.

    Installation: Add RadioButtonGroup.swift in your SwiftUI project.

    Usages: Create model class, must conform to RadioModelable protocol

     class RadioModel: RadioModelable {
        var id: Int
        var isChecked: Bool
        var label: String
        
        required init(id: Int, isChecked: Bool, label: String) {
            self.id = id
            self.isChecked = isChecked
            self.label = label
        }
    }

    Create data provider class, must conform to RadioDataProviding protocol

    class DataProvider<T>: RadioDataProviding where T: RadioModelable {
        @Published var items: [RItem] = []
        
        init() {
            
            self.items = getItems()
        }
        
        func getItems() -> [T] {
            return [T(id: 1, isChecked: true, label: "Radio 1"),
                    T(id: 2, isChecked: false, label: "Radio 2"),
                    T(id: 3, isChecked: false, label: "Radio 3")]
        }
        
        func toggle(id: Int) {
            for var item in self.items {
                if item.id == id {
                    item.isChecked = true
                } else {
                    item.isChecked = false
                }
            }
            
            self.objectWillChange.send()
        }
    }

    Finally add in your view

    struct ContentView: View {
        var body: some View {
            SRadioButtonViewGroup(dataProvider: DataProvider<RadioModel>(), selectedItem: getSelectedItemLabel)
        }
        
        func getSelectedItemLabel<T>(item: T) {
            print("selected item : \((item as! RadioModel).label)")
        }
    }

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  • Complete Login App in SwiftUI

    Complete Login App in SwiftUI

    This project follows the Swift MVVM design pattern. It also includes API examples and industry-standard project structure.

    It requires a Laravel project to run in the background. The Laravel project is very simple it requires only a few simple steps.

    Clone the Laravel project

    Download the source code

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