Issue #34
Hi there,
Welcome to issue #34 👋 Hope you learn something new today!
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Organising package manifests
Package.swift is a Swift file, and that means we can write Swift code in it, for example declare variables and functions, and even call them.
Are you already using any Swift language features in your package manifest? I'm curious about what other use-cases we can find for this.
Localised lists
ListFormatter composes a localised string from an array of elements, using a grammatically correct way to join the strings for the current locale. You can also customise how each element in the list is formatted by providing an itemFormatter property.
Year formatting
Every year it comes up on Twitter around December 30, that using YYYY in date formats is incorrect for displaying dates, as it stands for "week year" which will be wrong around the New Years week.
This year it's not yet too late to make a fix, so here's a reminder to check your code :)
Accessibility customisations in SwifUI vs UIKit
It's not always clear how to achieve the same accessibility customizations in SwiftUI vs UIKit. Here's a great summary - make sure to save it to your bookmarks for later:
Accessibility in SwiftUI explained for UIKit developers - SwiftLee
Accessibility in SwiftUI works a little different than in UIKit, but with a few tips you'll be able to get up to speed quickly.
SwiftUI performance tips
In this article Martin goes over various aspects of SwiftUI development and shares solid advice on avoiding performance issues in your UI code:
SwiftUI performance tips – martinmitrevski
SwiftUI has been around for almost 3 years now, and during this period working with it, I’ve noticed few groups of developer mistakes (both mine and from others) that can impact its performance. In this post, we will look at these pitfalls, and their potential solutions.
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