Swift Weekly - Issue #169

Have you ever asked yourself which algorithm is used by Swift’s sorting method? There are many sorting algorithms out there, and chances are that you’ll rarely have to use something other than the language’s builtin sort() method. However, knowing the properties of the sorting algorithm built into your language is important if you want to prevent unwanted behaviors and nasty edge cases.

Using property wrappers to define atomic properties in Swift

Meir Rosendorff takes a look at both Python and Swift as the go to language for machine learning tasks and tries to answer the question whether Swift will replace Python anytime soon.

Davide Lorenzi of TransferWise introduces the concept of Flows as an evolution to the Coordinator pattern.

Supercharged CI/CD pipelines for your next iOS build. We support iOS 13.

Pablo Manuelli argues that it is not wise to let your model objects implement Decodable or Encodable and suggests a better solution.

John Sundell takes a look at a few different ways that reducers can be used in Swift — ranging from transforming sequences, to accumulating asynchronous values using Apple’s new Combine framework, and beyond.

Learn how to use Swift Package Manager in Xcode. SPM now supports iOS and more, so it’s time to ditch CocoaPods for good.

Majid writes about Accessibility in SwiftUI this week. He shows how you can modify the accessibility tree by using accessibility modifiers to improve your user experience.

Humi wrote a nice little script that helps you find out if you’re ready to switch to the Swift Package Manager in your project.

View modifier is a very important concept of SwiftUI, which already provides plenty of modifiers, but you can also create a custom one with a simple protocol, ViewModifier. This article explains how to do just that.

Learn how to use the Swift Combine framework with this tutorial. Study what publisher, subscriber, operators, subject and publisher-subscriber life cycle are and implement several examples with the Combine Swift framework.

We’re looking for a Senior macOS Engineer to join our fully remote team at DuckDuckGo. This person will co-lead the development efforts on our Safari browser extension on macOS. Their secondary responsibility will be helping out with the development of our native iOS application.

In this tutorial you are going to learn how to use State, ObservableObject and EnvironmentObject to share data between views and also how to transition between views.

Felipe takes us for a deep dive into Swinject and shows code examples of how to use Swinject. He touches topics like containers, object scopes and how to register and resolve using arguments.

Uber built Cyborg, an open source implementation of VectorDrawable for iOS, to more easily implement designs across our apps.