With each new version of iOS, Apple introduces new SwiftUI features to add new features and plug holes in the framework. This article provides a solution for using new view modifiers that ship with new iOS versions--without raising the app's minimum iOS target setting. What are View Modifiers If you've

SwiftUI Preview is a fantastic piece of development tooling to quickly iterate UI designs in Xcode. But sometimes the code in your view just doesn't work--or worse it crashes the preview engine.  How can we work around this issue? I ran into a Preview crash issue in a SwiftUI view

SwiftUI uses declarative UI programming, where Views have immutable state, changing automatically as the data state they depend on changes. This is a mindset change for most iOS/macOS developers: instead of changing the UI with a “command and control” MVC mindset, data state changes indirectly change the UI. But

Each section below provides a snippet of code that configures a particular DatePicker, followed by the UI component created by iOS and macOS output for the specific component configuration. -- Some SwiftUI styles are not available on both iOS and macOS. For example the Wheel style is iOS only; the

This post covers how to use the Grand Central Dispatch's DispatchGroup object to coordinate separate web requests so that UI updates can be completed at the same time, even when asynchronous requests aren't guaranteed to return in a predictable order. This post is primarily a tutorial of using GCD's DispatchGroup,