SwiftUI and me are friends, sort of…

Welcome to my tenth weekly newsletter. It is Wednesday September 01, 2021.

These are the curated links from the last regular episode.

• Every SwiftUI Environment Value explained | FIVE STARS
  This is a long list of all the SwiftUI environment variables Federico could find. And it is very nice to see examples with each one of them.
• How to define custom environment values in SwiftUI | Sarunw
  If the entire list of environment values leaves you wanting more, have a look at this article by Sarun. Obviously there are legitimate usecases for a custom environment values. Sarun explains how you can roll your own.
• Why Conditional View Modifiers are a Bad Idea · objc.io
  Chris Eidhof has notices something going wrong with a lot of the sample code for conditional view modifiers. In his article Chris explains what and why things often go wrong with conditional view modifiers. He concludes that most often a conditional view modifier is not something you should use.
• Using File Wrappers in a SwiftUI App – Swift Dev Journal
  A file wrapper is something you typically find on Apple platforms. Their sort of useful, and in this article you can learn a bit more on what they are and how you can use the.
• Find A Problematic View In The View Debugger | dasdom
  Dominik has a layout constraint debugging tip to share. It is so obvious, someone just needs to tell you about this tip and save you a bunch of time when trying to debug layout constraint issues in your code.

Workshop

Tomorrow I will be running my AppForce1 Lead Developer Workshop. So last chance to sign up.

SwiftUI

I am finally getting my hand at writing some actual SwiftUI code destined for production. It took a while, but finally I can drink the cool-aid too. I do have some thoughts on SwiftUI though.

Would I write an entire app in SwiftUI, I'm not sure. It just feels like it is not completely there yet. iOS 15 improves things, but given the choice I think I would love to be able to write SwiftUI only. According to Malin it is great, but you still need to deal with a lot of platform specific detailing. I don't know yet, maybe it is due to yedars of experience with UIKit. Maybe it is because things look simple on the surface with SwiftUI, but once you add some complexity things get complex quickly.

For now I stick with my current plan of embedding SwiftUI on specific screens when it is convenient.

So yeah SwiftUI has a lot of my attention nowadays and maybe that's why this set of links is so SwiftUI heavy. If you want to learn a lot about SwiftUI, have a look at Paul's updated 100 days of SwiftUI.

Book idea: Event Bootstrap

I'm also checking interest in a quick ebook I want to do titled "Event Bootstrap". Online & offline. Meetups, workshops, training days & conferences. Free or paid. Ticketing. CFP proces, accommodating speakers. Travel. Sponsors. Venue. Hotels. And policies & harassment prevention. Just saying. I experienced it all. 🤷‍♂️ My initial idea is to get something out there ASAP for free. So people just have a resource available to just get started. Maybe invite me once you reach your first event with speakers. 😇

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