I came across this StackOverflow question How do I access the SwiftData container from outside of SwiftUI? but it turns out they needed to use the container inside an AppIntent. I knew the way to inject objects into AppIntents is Read more…
Health warning: In general I would not recommend this approach. View data should be @State simple values or custom structs with mutating func for testable logic, passed down as let for read only, computed vars for transforming, or @Binding var Read more…
If you attempt to init another instance of CLMonitor with the same name it crashes with: Since I wanted to use the same monitor from different tasks I needed to turn it into a singleton and came up with this: Read more…
Following on from my previous post on this topic I found a forum post with someone struggling to build a calculator using @Observable and thought maybe my technique of wrapping withObservationTracking in AsyncStream might help and came up with the Read more…
I needed to create an AsyncStream to monitor changes to an @Observable model class’s var and by using withCheckedContinuation and AsyncStream‘s unfolding init I came up with this: The challenge here is withObservationTracking only watches for a single change but Read more…
I noticed a snag when using NavigationLink(value:label:) and .navigationDestination(for:destination:) with the new @Observable vs the old Combine ObservableObject (which “just worked™️”). There are 2 compilation errors: Fortunately it is relatively simple to add Hashable conformance to an @Observable class by Read more…
In SwiftIUI, when requiring the reference semantics of a class and wanting to upgrade from Combine’s ObservableObject and @StateObject to the new @Observable it requires a bit more work to get the life-cycle correct. The reason for this is we Read more…
Today I successfully cloned my M1 MacBook Air to a new M3 MacBook Pro, it took some effort so thought I would share the steps here. Before I begin, the reason I prefer to clone rather than use Migration Assistant Read more…
Sharing @AppStorage without having to pass it into every feature of the app is simply done in the same way it’s done for anything else you want to share: EnvironmentKey. It lets you share a source of truth into a Read more…
When I first used AsyncStream with merge from AsyncAlgorithms I struggled with merging different stream result types and had experimented with building a protocol that each stream’s result type enum implemented. That way all the streams used the same protocol Read more…