Making Swift Stronger, Keeping It Simple
Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #062
Dec 16, 2024Two years ago, a friend asked me for a programming language recommendation for his six-year-old who was showing interest in coding. Considering he already had an iPad and MacBook, I didn't hesitate to...
onAppear is an extremely crucial lifecycle method in SwiftUI, used to inject key logic when a view is presented. Since view instances may be created and rebuilt frequently, developers often choose to prepare data and perform initialization operations within these methods. In theory, the timing of these lifecycle method calls should be predictable and consistent. However, in certain specific scenarios, onAppear may be called unexpectedly and unnecessarily. This not only can lead to performance overhead but also may cause uncontrollable changes in the application's state. This article will uncover this easily overlooked SwiftUI behavior trap and provide temporary countermeasures.
One of Core Data's outstanding features is its ability to allow developers to declare data models in a manner closer to object-oriented programming without worrying about the underlying storage implementation details. Within this framework, model inheritance is a particularly important mechanism. This article delves into the core concepts of model inheritance, including Parent Entity, Sub Entity, and Abstract Entity. We will analyze their advantages and disadvantages and explore how to achieve similar effects without directly using these features.
As social media channels continue to expand, internet users often find themselves managing multiple social accounts without even realizing it. For content creators and corporate account managers, the preparatory work required to post content across various social platforms is becoming increasingly cumbersome. Over the past month, I started using Typefully to centrally manage and publish content on multiple social platforms. Now, I'd like to share my experience.
Ensuring data consistency and integrity is crucial in data persistence operations. The SwiftData framework introduces the `transaction` method in `ModelContext`, providing developers with a more elegant way to organize and manage data operations. This article explores how to use the concept of transactions to build more reliable and efficient persistence operations.
In SwiftUI, the automatic view update mechanism allows us to easily build responsive user interfaces. However, sometimes views may not update as we expect. This article explores SwiftUI's view update mechanism through a seemingly simple but representative TimelineView update issue.
Core Data and SwiftData, as powerful persistence frameworks in the Apple ecosystem, not only provide declarative data listening tools like @FetchRequest and @Query, but also have a complete set of data tracking and notification mechanisms built-in. Understanding and mastering these mechanisms is crucial for building robust data-driven applications. This article will take you through multi-layered solutions—from simple custom notifications to the powerful Persistent History Tracking and SwiftData History—to help you handle various complex data synchronization scenarios.
Recently, I embarked on the reconstruction of an app that had not received significant updates for four years. During the process, I extracted some functional modules and shared them as open-source projects. This article provides a brief introduction to the libraries I have open-sourced over the past two months.