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Observable does not conform with Equatable (and Hashable)

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…

By malhal, 1 year23rd April 2024 ago
SwiftUI

@Observable vs ObservableObject in SwiftUI

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…

By malhal, 1 year22nd April 2024 ago
Mac

How to clone an Apple Silicon Mac without Migration Assistant or Time Machine

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…

By malhal, 1 year17th April 2024 ago
SwiftUI

SwiftUI: Sharing AppStorage across the whole app

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…

By malhal, 1 year10th April 2024 ago
Concurrency

Merge different AsyncStream types

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…

By malhal, 1 year18th March 2024 ago
Swift

UISplitViewController collapse code for iOS 14 and later

A new collapse delegate was added in Xcode 12 and iOS 14. Unfortunately the Master-Detail template was removed so there has never been a good example of how to use it to maintain the behavior of the previous template which Read more…

By malhal, 1 year2nd January 2024 ago
Concurrency

Capturing ‘async let’ variables is not supported

Discovered this strange error in Swift, when using the sample code from the proposal which is supposed to have been accepted and implemented

By malhal, 2 years7th December 2023 ago
Concurrency

Async/await UIAlertController

I needed to show an alert in an async context and this is how I achieved it: The idea to throw a cancellation exception was inspired by DDDevicePickerViewController which is the only built-in async UIViewController I’m aware of.

By malhal, 2 years15th October 2023 ago
CoreData

NSPersistentStoreRemoteChange

I wondered why NSPersistentStoreRemoteChange doesn’t contain any info about what process made the change. For example it isn’t possible to know if the change even was made by the current process or not. This would be useful so when you Read more…

By malhal, 2 years12th October 2023 ago
SwiftUI

Make a Simple Circular Button in SwiftUI

I came across this interesting Stack Overflow question How can I make a simple circular button in SwiftUI in macOS? It’s interesting because all of the proposed solutions required hard-coding a frame size. I decided to experiment with how to Read more…

By malhal, 2 years1st June 2023 ago

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