Liang Ma | Software Engineer, App Foundations

Read about the brand new AsyncImage view in the third release of SwiftUI, and load and display remote images asynchronously and effortlessly.

iOS 15 is coming in hot! Check out new ways to decode images, present sheets and more.

Markdown support, new button styling, customizable lists, and more

SwiftUI got a native way to add UIRefreshControl in iOS 15. Let's find out how to add it in the list view and even your custom view.

Each Xcode version comes with a specific Swift toolchain, but you don't have to wait for a new Xcode version to try the new Swift features. Let's see how we can switch between different Swift toolchains in Xcode.

Learn how you can create a catalog with custom audio signatures and recognize it using ShazamKit.

SwiftUI provides us a magical frame modifier that you might think is very simple and straightforward to use. But there is a lot of complicated logic under the hood. This week we will talk about fixed and flexible frames and the frame modifier to control them.

WWDC21 is finally here, and there are many new things in the updated version of SwiftUI. I’m happy to share with you that many items on my wishlist have finally arrived. In this post, I will try to give you a summary of the significant SwiftUI additions of…

One of the most important aspects to understand about Swift Concurrency is how cancellation of async tasks works. You may expect that when a task is cancelled, it immediately stops, like when you kill a process. But that’s not at all how it works, cancellation…

Working with AsyncImage in iOS 15: placeholders, errors, success!

A tale about transitioning from a monolithic architecture to a packages based one.

Testing async/await code is straightforward. Let me show you how.

How the MainActor attribute eliminates the need for us to manually dispatch UI updates on the main queue when using Swift 5.5’s new concurrency system.

Markdown-powered documentation is now just a click away.

One of my favorite new features of Xcode 13 is support for Vim key bindings. In this episode we will see how to enable this and I'll give a quick tour of how to get around using Vim.

Fresh out of WWDC21, let's dig into the brand new safeAreaInset view modifier!

Apple introduced a new way to reload cells in WWDC21, let's explore how we can use it to reload cells with reference and value type items.

We all know that async / await was one of this year’s big announcements WWDC. It completely changes the way we interact with concurrent code. Instead of using completion handlers, we can await results…