A look at FocusState — the new property wrapper introduced with iOS 15 — Managing focus is an important aspect for almost any sort of UI — getting this right helps your users navigate your app faster and more efficiently. In desktop UIs, we have come to expect being able to navigate through the input fields on a form by pressing the tab key…

Learn how to use async/await in SwiftUI apps — Without a doubt, one of the biggest announcements at WWDC21 was Swift Concurrency — most notably the support for async/await. As developers, we’re constantly faced with the asynchronous nature of the apps we write. Reading a file from disk, fetching data from a remote API on the web, and even…

One of the best things about Firebase is our community, so after three long years, we’re thrilled to announce that our seventh annual Firebase Summit is returning as a hybrid event with both in-person and virtual experiences! Our 1-day, in-person event will be held at Pier 57 in New York…

Perform networking calls using reactive programming — Not keeping the UI up to date across the different parts of an app can result in an infuriatingly bad user experience, and I am sure we all have at least one or two apps in mind that are notorious for this kind of behaviour. Writing apps that keep the…

Create meaningful empty states — Empty state is an important aspect of UX — it’s what users see when they first open your app, and as the saying goes, there is no second chance to leave a first impression — so it better be good. …

Replicating Apple’s Reminders app — In our apps, we often need users to confirm an action they initiated, mostly because it’s a destructive operation. …

Enhance your SwiftUI List Views — Previously, we looked at how to use List views to create static list views. Static list views are useful for creating menus or settings screens in iOS apps, but List views become a lot more useful when we connect them to a data source. Today, we’re going to look at…

Everything you need to know about SwiftUI’s list views — List views are probably one of the most important UI structures in iOS apps, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find an app that doesn’t use some sort of list. SwiftUI makes it particularly easy to build list views; it just takes three lines to create a simple list! At the…

Cancelling tasks just got a whole lot easier — Swift’s new concurrency features make it much easier to write correct concurrent code. This is achieved in a number of ways, most prominently by adding features like async/await to the Swift language itself, allowing the compiler to perform flow analysis and providing meaningful feedback to the developer. As Doug points…