Weekly Resources

October 7–11, 2024

Welcome to another issue of Weekly Resources where I will be compiling all the articles that I have read, the videos I have watched, and the articles I have written alongside any other thoughts and ideas each week, released on Fridays.

I also launched a series on my blog called SwiftUI Modifiers Deep Dive, releasing an article every Wednesday about a new SwiftUI Modifier, be sure to check it out!

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Articles Read

Using Redacted Placeholders in SwiftUI

Kodeko

I’ve used redaction before, but I wanted to brush up on the topic. I wanted to see if it was possible to redact the navigation title inside a NavigationStack. Spoiler alert, it doesn’t seem to be unless you use a custom Toolbar item.

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Articles Written

Building Better Forms with LabeledContent in SwiftUI

LabeledContent has been out since iOS 16, and I am finding out about it way too late, so I figured I’d write about it to share with others.

SwiftUI Modifiers Deep Dive: presentationCompactAdaptation

Another modifier deep dive here where I go through how presentationCompactAdaptation can be used to specify how to adapt a presentation to compact size classes.

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Thoughts

iPhone 13 Pro Max → iPhone 16 Pro Max

I’ve been using my new phone for a couple weeks now. The battery is a bit better, it’s overall a bit faster, slightly better camera, but I really could have gone without the upgrade. There is no noticeable differences in my day to day, maybe aside from the Dynamic Island being a stark change. Maybe once I get some of the Apple Intelligence features it will feel a bit better.

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