Swift Weekly - Issue #188

Starting this year, entire apps can now be defined directly using SwiftUI from top to bottom. Let’s take a first look at how that works for iOS apps.

Jesse Squires writes about globals and static members and their atomicity and thread-safety.

Let’s take a closer look at opaque return types, how they can be used both with and without SwiftUI, and how they compare to similar generic programming techniques, such as type erasure.

The as and as? operators in Swift are more different than their similar names suggest.

Text views, grids, color pickers, and more!

What if, instead of lowering source code down for the purpose of execution, we raised it for the purpose of understanding?

A new way to create a reusable view.

Is this the beginning of the end for UITableView? Here’s Keith Harrison’s guide to building table-view like lists using collection views with iOS 14.

Erica Sadun explains how you can import web-based SwiftPM packages into an Xcode playground.

The first part of this article explores how to use the .matchedGeometryEffect modifier to create a hero transition.

Toolbar API is another excellent addition to SwiftUI this year. In this article we will learn all about the new Toolbar API.

Learn what SwiftUI’s @State, @Binding, @StateObject, and @ObservedObject property wrappers do, and when they should be used.

Saily is a package manager for jailbroken device on iOS 13 and above written in Swift.