And another post on how to fix crude Xcode or more specifically SwiftUI errors. Did you ever come across “Cannot use explicit ‘return’ statement in the body of result builder ‘ViewBuilder'”? I see it regularily and it’s actually not to … Read the rest
Category: iOS Development
When reading through iOS related subreddits, I often get the feeling that a lot of basic techniques regarding App Store Optimzation (or in short ASO) are seemingly not well known. Now and then there are comments or questions regarding ASO … Read the rest
Today, I wanted to create a labeled TextField in SwiftUI. More specifically the label should appear as a small text above the TextField. My first quick hack was to just add a label above a TextField. Obviously, we … Read the rest
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Developing iOS Apps for Kids
I do stumble now and then across (more or less great) apps for smaller children, kids or toddlers. You have probably seen these as well. I never released any app for the kids category but I was curious how it … Read the rest
Lately, I released my first visionOS app. Actually, my personal deadline was the US release date (2nd of February 2024) and gladly everything worked out. You can read a little bit about it in my other article: https://mic.st/blog/develop-and-release-a-visionos-app-without-vision-pro/. One … Read the rest
Although SwiftUI did become more and more mature over the years: When it comes to error handling, SwiftUI still sometimes feels like a pain. You probably have seen the following error more than once: It reads “The compiler is … Read the rest
By implementing UISearchController you can easily add search functionality to any UITableView. However, having such a search bar might have accessibility drawbacks. It might even be completely unusable users relying on Voice Over.
This article is part of my … Read the rest
Currently, I am experimenting on a Vision Pro app as a side project. One thing I was not aware of for quite some time was this new paradigm with the fancy name Ornaments only used on visionOS. I just happily … Read the rest
Today, I wanted to connect an USB drive to my Raspberry Pi and it did not work as easy as expected to access it’s data. As a side note, it is a Raspberry Pi completely set up via terminal so … Read the rest
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Quickly unxip files, e.g. Xcode
Ever wondered why unpacking a new Xcode release takes soooo long? I don’t know either. Probably a lot of time is spent on validating signatures or other things. Anyway, sometimes you just want to quickly unpack it or unxip Xcode. … Read the rest
