The new iOS 14 privacy feature spells trouble for advertisement agencies and promises to end an era of personalized ads — When Apple’s WWDC 2020 digital-only Keynote event kickstarted, all eyes were on the new mac OS Big Sur and the ambitious Apple Silicon chips. But, from the perspective of advertisement agencies, it was the new iOS 14 privacy-based features that sent shockwaves in their industry and became the major talking…

Say goodbye to SwiftUI NavigationView with iOS 16 — SwiftUI NavigationView has been an Achilles heel of the framework since the beginning. From not letting lazy loads of destination views inside NavigationLink initially (though this was resolved later), to its inability to programmatically navigate deep links, SwiftUI’s Navigation framework often forced us to fall back to using the UINavigationController.

Without saying that word, Apple is preparing developers to build apps for its much-awaited AR/VR device — When Apple’s WWDC 2022 keynote kickstarted, the world eagerly awaited some announcements regarding the much-talked-about mixed reality headset. At the very least, a toolkit analogous to M1’s DTK for developers was expected. More so, since there were multiple rumors about a potential announcement of realityOS. …

Multi-line text fields, default focus, new autocorrection modifier, text field inside alerts, and fine-tuned scrolling — TextField is one of the core control components for designing UIs with SwiftUI. During WWDC 2020, quite a few handy enhancements were showcased for TextField. Like: Multi-line TextFields through the axis parameter In the next few sections, we’ll be covering them one by one: Multi-line TextFields

Build an expandable UICollectionView using compositional layouts and diffable data sources in iOS 16 — Creating dynamic Table View or Collection View cells is a challenge that most iOS developers have struggled with at some point. From using estimatedRowHeight to creating custom UICollectionViewLayout — setting dynamic sizes for UICollectionViewCells requires implementing a bunch of methods — and I’ve always fallen back to recipe codes —…

Some SwiftUI goodies I explored so far — WWDC 2022 event has just kickstarted this week and like every time, the SwiftUI announcements were to watch out for. From a new NavigationStack to a SwiftUI-only Chart library to enhancements in the Grid layout — there are plenty of goodies for us to ooze at. In the next few…