Saving App Data in Property List Files Your app needs to save data. There's too much data to use User Defaults. Using SwiftData or Core Data would be overkill. One solution is to save the data in property list files. This article shows you how to save your app's data in property list files. Use the PropertyListEncoder Class if you can If the data you want to save conforms to the Codable protocol, use the PropertyListEncoder class to save the data. Encoding data with PropertyListEncoder...
10 months ago • 2 min read
Working with Lists in Multiplatform SwiftUI Apps One of SwiftUI's best features is you can use it to make apps that run on both iOS and Mac. Almost every SwiftUI article you find online is about iOS development, but most of the material also applies to Mac as well. Lists are one area of SwiftUI where there are large differences between iOS and Mac. If you read an article about lists and try to use the code in a Mac app, you'll run into problems. This article provides guidance on writing list...
11 months ago • 3 min read
Getting Started with Document-based SwiftUI Apps Document-based apps let people create documents they can share with others. Examples of document-based apps are text editors, spreadsheets and video editors. Learn the basics of making document-based SwiftUI apps in this article. Creating a Project in Xcode The iOS, Mac, and Multiplatform project categories have a Document App project template. Select that template and click the Next button to create a document app. Multiplatform document apps...
11 months ago • 4 min read
Sign in to websites in your SwiftUI app Many Swift apps require access to an online account. A person using your app must sign into a website to give your app access to the account. How do you let the person sign in from your app? Apple provides a class, ASWebAuthenticationSession, to simplify signing into a website from an iOS or Mac app. When you create and start an instance of ASWebAuthenticationSession, a private browser window opens for someone to sign into a website. After signing in,...
11 months ago • 3 min read