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xcode

A collection of 13 issues

Understanding Misaligned Images in the iOS Simulator

Today, we'll discuss this setting in more detail and we'll see how we can improve our app's rendering performance by addressing issues related to misaligned images. I've been making iPhone apps for years, but I've never really investigated this feature. Now that I know what it does, I wonder how

Automatically Delete iOS Simulator Screenshots

In iOS Development, you'll often use Command + S to take screenshots of your app running in the iOS Simulator. Although this is very convenient for sharing screenshots of your application with your team, or for pull requests, etc., since the system saves these screenshots to your Desktop, it quickly leads

Automatically update if let and guard let for Swift 5.7

If you've seen the WWDC What's new in Swift? [https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/110354/] video, you've likely seen the updates to the if let and guard let syntax. Prior to Swift 5.7, it was common to unwrap an Optional variable and assign to a variable with

Regex In 10 Minutes

We'll cover everything you need to know about regular expressions and some tips to help you get the most out of them in Xcode.

Adding Custom Shortcuts To Xcode

It’s always bugged me that Apple removed the Command + T shortcut to toggle Slow Animations. Using the following approach, you can restore this shortcut and add custom shortcuts to any Xcode or iOS Simulator settings. In System Preferences, select Keyboard -> App Shortcuts -> + Then, just specify your preferred

Improved Type Safety With SwiftGen

We'll see how we can use SwiftGen to add type-safety to our project's resources and enable us to write cleaner code.

Native Network Monitoring In Swift

We'll take a look at a native solution for monitoring network connectivity on iOS with Swift 5 and how to use the Network Link Conditioner.

Overloading & Creating New Operators In Swift 5

We'll cover everything you need to know about operator overloading and creating custom operators with unique precedence and associativity behavior.

How to Test Private Variables in Swift

Let's take a look at how we can use Swift's Mirror class to allow access to a class's private properties from our testing target.