Utilize the power of the menu bar to speed up development — While developing, I commonly find that my screen real estate is at a premium. Typically, I will have more than one window open on my iMac — and often in full screen. Menu bar applications are a great time-saver when it comes to productivity while developing. …

Use view modifiers to import or export data in your application — At WWDC 2020, SwiftUI introduced functionality for importing and exporting data to and from your applications with new @Environment variables. While these new additions are a welcome improvement to SwiftUI, they are a bit clunky. …

Create a SwiftUI document-based app using reference types instead of value types for your document — At WWDC 2020, Apple introduced the creation of document-based apps created entirely in SwiftUI using the new DocumentGroup element. Along with this new addition, Xcode 12 also provides a built-in template for generating a document-based app using SwiftUI using FileDocument. …

Learn how to create a menu bar application using SwiftUI — Menu bar applications are among some of the more useful applications you can install for macOS. The ability of menu bar apps to hover above other open applications make them great for quick tasks or for quick access to data. There are even websites dedicated to cataloging menu bar apps…

A small (and lightweight) networking library for Swift with Combine — At WWDC 2019, Apple announced a new framework called Combine as a new way of dealing with asynchronous events in Swift. As of macOS 10.15 and iOS 13, Combine is now deeply integrated in many areas of the Foundation framework including Timer, NSNotification, and URLSession. The Combine framework adds two…

Create a reusable generic SwiftUI view to wrap dynamic Core Data content — With the release of iOS 13 Beta 5, Apple gave developers a way forward with using Core Data with SwiftUI but provide little in the way of usage details: NSManagedObject now conforms to ObservableObject. The new @FetchRequestproperty wrapper can drive views from the results of a fetch request, and managedObjectContext…