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Verify your appâs integrity with App Attest
Drop your quirky jailbreak detection code. There's a new, official API in town. đ
apple.comThe App Attest service gives your app a way to assert its validity so that your server can more confidently provide access to sensitive resources.
If you're having trouble getting your head around SwiftUI...
It's around about this time in the beta cycle that I always like to remind people that it's OK if you're not taking advantage of every new API in this year's releases, or last year's releases. This year, I'll let James Thomson do it though, with a tweet that can only be written after holding your head in your hands and exclaiming to yourself "But WHY isn't it working!" đ
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Self-Sizing UITableView Cells with SwiftUI
Is the ultimate answer to the age-old problem of self-sizing table view cells... SwiftUI? Noah Gilmore suggests it might be! The post is a journey through three different methods of working towards a solution and is thoroughly worth your time.
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SwiftĘźs Collection Types
Here's Harshil Shah with an in-depth look at the multitude of Swift collection types. The inspiration for the post came from Dave Abrahams' WWDC 2018 talk, which is also thoroughly worth watching. You'll learn more than you ever need to know about collections by the end.
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Building a Multi-platform App with SwiftUI
I liked this post from Rick Wierenga on building a full multiplatform app with SwiftUI and this year's betas. I love that cross-platform (where cross-platform means cross-Apple-platform) development feels like a critically important part of this year's releases. It's taken a while to get there, but I love how it's turned out.
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Adding a closure as a target to UIButton
Sometimes it's the little enhancements to the APIs we use every day that make the biggest impact on our developer lives. Like being able to use a closure to execute the code when someone taps your button. Here's Antoine van der Lee with a quick post to bring you up to speed.
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Guide to SKAdNetwork and iOS 14 Privacy Changes
What's going on in iOS 14 with the IDFA? You might be tempted to breeze past this issue, but even if you're merely tracking your own installs through from your marketing efforts, this is going to affect you. Let David Barnard guide you, with this incredibly detailed post on how this is all changing in iOS 14, and beyond.
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BIS Annual Self-Classification Report Generator
If last week's post on filling in an encryption self-classification report resonated with you, but you didn't get around to actually... you know... doing it yet đ then you'll want to check Christopher Atlan's site out. Fill in the form, and generate a report. Could it be any simpler?
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Youâve likely seen Kane Cheshireâs post this week talking about his experiments with
Processand a Swift package manifest file. If not, read that before continuing here.Itâs not surprising to see that people were generally quite shocked to find out this is possible, but I think that highlights just how little we think about the dependencies we include in our apps. Is it shocking that package authors can launch arbitrary processes when we run
swift package? If that concerns you, youâre really not going to like what third-party code can do with your userâs data when you build them into your app and ship it to the store.Does your app request permission to access location data? Photos? Contacts? Thatâs all available to third-party libraries you include. What do you store in the keychain? Itâs all open to a library. đ
I have strong feelings about choosing high-quality dependencies. So much so that the âmission statementâ of the Swift Package Index is to âhelp you make better decisions when choosing dependenciesâ. Some of that can be automated, which is where the site can help. But you also need to understand (on some level) what the packages that youâre importing are doing.
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