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How to Call macOS APIs with Swift in Automator Workflows

macOS APIs enable a whole host of functionality you won't find in basic Automator workflow actions. With Swift, you can unlock them all.

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Handling Audio Sessions with Bluetooth in Swift for iOS

It's important to properly configure and handle audio sessions for iOS apps that deal with audio. Otherwise, there could be unintended behavior.

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Ergonomic Struct Updates in Swift

Reducer functions work well with Swift’s value semantic structs, but applying small changes is a headache without JavaScript’s object spread operator. We can use Swift protocols an

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10 Things You Need to Understand about Swift

New to Swift? It has several unique features and pitfalls you need to be aware of – even if your background is in Objective-C.

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Getting Started with NSTouchBar for macOS using Storyboards

Using storyboards, I was able to see what types of functionality I could add to my touch bar easily and test out the new features available to me.

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Four Tips and Tools for iOS Testing in Swift

A few of the iOS testing tools I’ve used to make life a little easier and code more correct when developing apps in Swift.

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A Guide to Interacting with iBeacons in iOS using Swift

What iBeacons are, how you can use them, the programming model for interacting with them in iOS, and a few best practices.

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Customizing UIWebView for PDFs in Swift

Apple largely treats UIWebViews like a black box: Documentation warns that they should not be subclassed—what if you want to customize how they show PDFs?

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Using Swift Enums for Hard-Coded Strings

How to use new features in Swift enums to manage hard-coded strings in your application.

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A Swift Architecture for Managing State: Revised

How to manage state in a Swift iOS app — a simple architecture that takes advantage of Swift's strengths and general design.

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Testing with Swift – Approaches & Useful Libraries

How we've approached testing different types of Swift code, and some useful testing libraries we've used.

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Go Home Swift Compiler, You’re Drunk

Be aware of Swift's inability to efficiently parse and compile simple Dictionary/Array literals. The compilation time grows exponentially with each line.

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