Learn how to create and animate stunning visual effects with Mesh Gradients in a SwiftUI app.

I’ve spoken about the layering system in accessibility, with VoiceOver support being a good first step toward supporting Voice Control, and Voice Control in turn being a good start in supporting Full Keyboard Access. I stand by this! Things like labels, traits…

When you need to download or upload data in iOS apps, use the `URLSession` class to group, pause, resume and cancel network transfers.

Downloading files in Swift can be pretty straightforward. However, SwiftUI apps must track multiple files, complicating their architecture.

Learn how you can leverage mesh gradients on iOS 18 to create pretty visual effects

Improve your testing workflow with the #expect macro in Swift Testing. Simplify your assertions and debug tests with ease.

In this article we'll talk about **Software Design** and the role **types** play in this process. You'll learn how to leverage Swift's expressive type system to create accurate and robust models tailored to solve problems in your domain.

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Explore NSManagedObjectID and PersistentIdentifier in Core Data and SwiftData. Learn their features, usage, and how to manage data object identity efficiently.

Explore different ways to work with SwiftUI environment, including reading and setting values, creating custom environment keys, and using the environment to pass down actions and observable classes.

Boost coding productivity with Cursor's @Doc feature. Learn how to index external documentation directly in your workspace, eliminating tab-switching and keeping you in flow.

Xcode Previews can either be your best friend or worst enemy. Here's how to tame expensive data to reuse it across previews to keep things snappy.

In the previous post, we discussed the basics of the new container APIs introduced in SwiftUI this year. I want to continue the topic by touching on more advanced recomposition APIs that allow us to decompose sections and their content.

Learn to create custom colors, adjust blend amounts, and choose color spaces with SwiftUI in iOS 18 for precise control.

Discover how to seamlessly blend SwiftUI into your UIKit app with a unified router for smooth navigation

A code generation story.

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The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Unit Tests: Sacrificing Domain Knowledge

Excuse the alarmist title, but I think it’s justified, as it’s an issue that’s caused me a ton of pain in both support emails and actually tracking it down, so I want to make others aware of it so they don’t similarly burned.
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