A short follow-up on fixing inconsistent SF Symbol heights in SwiftUI: locking the symbol height inside a frame solves the earlier problem, but breaks down when users change their text size. Apple’s @ScaledMetric property wrapper, introduced in iOS 14, scales the value with Dynamic Type and addresses that, though I admit not fully understanding how it works...
My notes on completing the first assignment from Stanford’s CS193p SwiftUI lecture series, which involved minor changes to the app built in the lectures. My write-up covers an error that prevented me from initializing a @State property from an instance member, and some dissatisfaction with duplicated emoji arrays and SF Symbol alignment—issues I partly resolved after reading the assignment’s hints section and rewatching a lecture...
My notes on working through Stanford’s CS193p SwiftUI lectures by Paul Hegarty, whose freely available course materials make it possible to follow along as a proper course. I made it to lecture 3, which was enough to build a minimum viable version of my own app, EasterDay, in Playgrounds, and I plan to return to the lectures while also learning GitHub...
