I give a progress update on translating an external designer’s UI into SwiftUI, covering the rounded-rectangle elements I’ve completed and the .offset modifier I used to create an overlapping layout. My remaining work includes a custom picker and a combined picker/progress indicator...
Day 38 of my 100 Days of SwiftUI challenge covers three exercises on the iExpense app: showing amounts in the user’s preferred currency (navigating a deprecated Locale API), applying conditional styling based on expense value, and splitting the expense list into personal and business sections. The list-splitting required me to wrap conditionals in a Group to satisfy the compiler’s ViewBuilder type checks...
My write-up of the Day 35 challenge from 100 Days of SwiftUI: building a times tables drilling app. I cover creating a custom number keypad and replacing the standard iOS modal with a ZStack-based overlay, finding that tap events pass through very transparent overlays but not more solid ones. I also note the finished app is plain-looking and that improving visual design is now a goal...
Day 35 of the 100 Days of SwiftUI challenge, which I spent building a multiplication tables drill app for kids. I cover persisting the user’s table selection with UserDefaults (including an enum to avoid hard-coded key strings and a fallback for missing values), plus a Stack Overflow trick for building a compact horizontal wheel picker using paired rotationEffects...
A follow-up to my previous post about the difference between writing a SwiftUI ForEach range as 1..<21 versus 1…20. I found the answer in a Hacking with Swift Day 34 article, which indicates older versions of Swift might not have allowed the closed-range form...
This is a write-up of Project 6 of 100 Days of SwiftUI, which adds animations to the earlier Guess the Flag app. The tricky part was that all three flags are built in a ForEach, so animations applied to every button at once; the fix was storing each flag’s animation magnitude separately and animating unclicked flags by zero. I also cover re-animating the flags once the alert closes, along with my criticism of the tutorial’s alert UI...
A short walkthrough of three ways to animate SwiftUI views, written as part of my progress through the 100 Days of SwiftUI series: implicit animation via the .animation() modifier, animation bound to controls like sliders, and explicit animation for coordinating simultaneous changes. Each approach is illustrated with example code and a demo video...
I built a Scrabble-like word game as a 100 Days of SwiftUI project. I cover bundling a large text file and loading it into an array at view launch, plus a brief detour into UIKit to use UITextChecker. My source code is on GitHub...
After finishing the Word Scramble challenges in Hacking with Swift’s 100 Days of SwiftUI, I review Paul Hudson’s subscriber-only solution and pick up two improvements. The first is a clearer way of resetting the used-words array; the second replaces my bottom-toolbar score display with a safeAreaInset that initially seemed overcomplicated but looked better in practice...
