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Blend Modes in SwiftUI

Blend modes play a crucial role in digital design, enabling designers to easily create complex visual effects like overlays and textures. They're essential for tasks like photo manipulation, creating lighting effects, and adding depth to images. Blend modes, as the name suggests, blends the colors of multiple layers

Mastering Animatable and AnimatablePair in SwiftUI

SwiftUI makes creating animations a breeze, but sometimes you need a bit more control over how things move and animate. In this article, we'll explore Animatable and AnimatablePair and we'll see how we can use these APIs to craft more advanced animations in our apps. But,

Chaikin's Algorithm In SwiftUI

Many of you are probably familiar with Bézier curves and how they create smooth paths and designs, but did you know there's a simpler way to get a similar results? I came across this blog post yesterday that introduced me to Chaikin's Algorithm, , and after spending

Exploring ABI stability, @frozen, and library evolution mode

I was poking around in the Swift Standard Library, as one does, and I kept bumping into the @frozen keyword everywhere. I'd never used this keyword before, and as I tried to get a better handle on it, I found myself traveling further down the rabbit hole than

Bresenham's Line Algorithm

I took a Computer Graphics course during college, and I've been revisiting the subject. During this recent exploration, I came across something interesting: Bresenham's Line Drawing Algorithm. It's a straightforward and extremely clever method for drawing lines on a pixel-based display. Let's

Exploring Animation Curves

Between my recent SwiftUI projects and YouTube content, animations have become a crucial part of my work. So, I've been down a bit of an animation rabbit hole lately... We'll start with the basics - from linear animations to easing curves - and then we'

How To Create a PDF In A WKWebView

In this article, we'll see how we can save the contents of a WKWebView as a PDF using Swift 5.

Using The Proxy Pattern In Swift 5

Today, we'll take a closer look at the proxy design pattern. We'll get the formal definition out of the way quickly and then we'll jump into some practical examples. What Is The Proxy Pattern? The proxy pattern is a structural pattern that helps you

How To Automatically Create .gifs From The iOS Simulator

Did you know you can export .gifs directly from the iOS Simulator? No third-party tools are needed!

How To Notify Users About App Updates

Whenever you release an app update, it's important to make sure existing users don't fall behind and that your user base doesn't become fragmented across multiple versions. So, some apps will choose to notify users when a newer version is available or will force