Escaping Closure in Swift In Swift, an escaping closure is a closure that outlives the function it’s passed to. The term “escaping” means the closure can “escape” the scope of the function it was passed to and be executed later. Why Escaping Closures are Important When you pass a closure to a function: When to… Read More »
Swift’s Timer class is a flexible way to schedule work to happen in the future, either just once or repeatedly. In this guide I will to provide a selection of ways to work with it, along with solutions for common problems. This code: If you’re working in a SwiftUI context, you might prefer using this alternative approach:… Read More »
I’ve created a comprehensive list of 100 Swift interview questions and answers covering key iOS development topics. The questions are organized into several categories: Each question includes a concise answer followed by a detailed explanation that provides context, examples, and best practices. The content covers fundamental Swift concepts like optionals and type safety, advanced topics… Read More »
To send data from native iOS Swift to React Native, you can use event emitters. Here’s how to set it up: This setup allows you to push data from native Swift code to your React Native application whenever needed, which is useful for handling native events, callbacks from APIs, or any asynchronous operations.
Here is a comprehensive implementation for accessing both the camera and photo gallery in SwiftUI. Here’s a breakdown of the key components: Main Features Permission Texts in Info.plist You’ll need to add these permission strings to your Info.plist file: Implementation Details Key Techniques Used This implementation follows best practices for iOS development, including proper permission… Read More »
In React Native, you can load data into a list using components like FlatList or SectionList. Here’s a simple approach using FlatList. The sample implementation is as given below. Let me break down how this React Native code works for loading data into a list: 2. useEffect Hook: 3. fetchData Function: 4. renderItem Function: 5.… Read More »
Passing Data from Swift to React Native Using Event Emitters To share data between your Swift native code and React Native JavaScript, you’ll need to use the React Native event emitter system. This creates a communication bridge between the native and JavaScript layers. Let me walk you through the process step by step. Setting Up… Read More »
There are multiple ways to implement persistent storage in SwiftUI, including the key property wrappers for state management. Let me explain the key concepts demonstrated in this implementation: 1. @ObservableObject & @Published 2. @StateObject & @EnvironmentObject 3. Persistent Storage Implementation 4. Data Flow This implementation provides several benefits: Thank you for reading!
This implementation creates a smooth, swipeable carousel with page indicators. Here are the key components: The complete code is as given below. Inline comments are given for better understanding of above points. To customize this carousel, you can: Thanks for reading!
SwiftUI supports some in-built shapes that are used to develop a custom design and user interface component. These shapes are easy to use and can customized in various style, colors, fills, transformations, etc. 2. Rectangle 3. Rounded Rectangle. SwiftUI also provide built-in RoundedRectangle() to create a rounded rectangle shape. The rounded rectangle is a very useful shape… Read More »
SwiftUI and UIKit are both iOS development frameworks, but they differ significantly: SwiftUI: Declarative UI design UIKit: Imperative UI construction 2. Code Complexity SwiftUI: Shorter, more readable code UIKit: More verbose, requires more manual configuration 3. Layout Approach SwiftUI: Uses modern compositional layouts with stacks and modifiers UIKit: Relies on Auto Layout and frame-based positioning… Read More »
SwiftUI handles concurrency and multithreading primarily through Swift’s native concurrency features and some SwiftUI-specific patterns. Here’s a comprehensive breakdown: These concurrency features are designed to work together seamlessly with SwiftUI’s declarative nature, ensuring that: The key is that SwiftUI abstracts away much of the complexity of traditional multithreading while providing powerful tools for handling asynchronous… Read More »
There are different ways to limit or constrain a subview within its superview in SwiftUI. ‘GeometryReader’ is one among those for relative sizing of the subviews in a view. We will see different ways of using ‘GeometryReader’ in below examples. 2. CenteredContentExample: 3. ResponsiveContainerExample: 4. ProportionalContainerExample: Key tips for using GeometryReader: a. Always account for… Read More »
Read about what ‘addingPercentEncoding‘ is and why it’s important in URL handling. addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters:) is a String method in Swift that encodes special characters in a string to make it URL-safe. This is often called “URL encoding” or “percent encoding.” Let me break this down with examples: Why URL encoding is necessary? Common character encodings: Here’s… Read More »
What is Plist file? A Property List (Plist) file is a specialized file format used to store structured data. Plist files can contain various data types, including dictionaries, arrays, strings, numbers, dates, and binary data. They are widely used in Apple development for various purposes, such as app configuration, user preferences, and data serialization. Plist files have a .plist file extension and… Read More »
In our app this screen will show us a list of items from a menu, so we’re going to use a List view instead of Xcode’s default template code. Below given is the default text when we create a new app in iOS. So, replace the current text view with this: When the preview updates you’ll now… Read More »
SwiftUI gives us two different modifiers to modify the spacing between letters in a text. Depending on our need we can either space the letters more tightly or further apart depending on what you want. The two modifiers tracking() and kerning() are used for adding space between the letters, but tracking will pull apart ligatures… Read More »
Like many other text UI’s SwiftUI’s Text wraps across multiple lines, they align to their leading edge by default. You can change that behavior, by using swiftUI’s ‘multilineTextAlignment()’ modifier to specify an alternative like .center, .trailing etc. For example, this will center several lines of text as they wrap across lines: Let’s use a picker… Read More »
From iOS 13 onwards apple has introduced text formatting API named ‘Format’ and it is capable of showing dates, arrays and measurements and more. If you use the .list() format type with an array of strings, you can get neatly formatted lists such as “Jay, Modi, and Webber”. For example, this will print ingredients lists correctly no… Read More »
A text view draws a string in your app’s user interface using a body font that’s appropriate for the current platform. You can choose a different standard font, like title or caption, using the font(_:) view modifier. Text views give us predictably wide range of controls in terms of how they look. They are also designed to work seamlessly alongside core apple… Read More »
Text views are used to show static text on screen. They are equal to UILabel in UIKit. The most basic type of UILabel looks like: Inside the preview window for the content view, you may see “Automatic preview updating paused”. Sometimes it shows like that, go ahead and press Resume to have swift start building… Read More »
The timeline view in Swift is a bit different, because it doesn’t have a display of its own. The main idea behind timeline view is that you can provide some kind of schedule and based on the schedule the view is going to get date and you can pass it to analog view or digital… Read More »
There are two main approaches to implementing pull-to-refresh functionality in SwiftUI, depending on your SwiftUI version and desired level of customization: 1. Using the built-in refreshable modifier (iOS 16+) If you’re targeting iOS 16 and above, SwiftUI offers a built-in refreshable modifier that simplifies pull-to-refresh functionality for List and ScrollView. Here’s how to use it:… Read More »
In Swift, Core Data is a powerful framework provided by Apple for managing the model layer objects in an application. A Core Data stack refers to the set of objects and configurations used to interact with the Core Data framework. The Core Data stack typically consists of three main components: 2. Persistent Store Coordinator (PSC):… Read More »
Setting up a Core Data stack in Swift involves several steps, including creating a managed object model, setting up a persistent store coordinator, managed object context, and other components. Here’s a basic guide to setting up a Core Data stack in Swift: Create a Data Model: Generate NSManagedObject Subclasses: Initialize the Persistent Store Coordinator: Managed… Read More »