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Chris C • Apr 29 2024
Building a Photo Gallery app in SwiftUI Part 3: Creating the photo gallery app
In this post, we’ll continue building the grid UI to use the PhotoThumbnailView as the LazyVGrid’s GridItem and navigate towards the photo detail view when we select a photo from the grid.
Chris C • Apr 29 2024
Building a Photo Gallery app in SwiftUI Part 2: Memory Management practices for a photo-grid UI
In this post, we will continue our discussion about memory management from the perspective of the user interface. The UI will be the one to show the photos in a grid, so it’s important to apply memory management practices so the app’s memory consumption won’t grow as we scroll along the photos.
Chris C • Apr 29 2024
Building a Photo Gallery app in SwiftUI Part 1: Memory Management using PhotoKit
Hello, and welcome back! This is part 1 of 4 of the “Building a Photo Gallery app in SwiftUI” series. In this post, we’re going to talk about memory management. Memory is a very important resource as it is shared by many apps including the system itself.
Chris C • Apr 29 2024
Building a Photo Gallery app in SwiftUI
Hi! Welcome to a new articles series in CodeWithChris! In this series, I will share my personal experience building a simple photo gallery app in SwiftUI.
Chris C • Apr 29 2024
Your First SwiftUI App: The War Card Game
Step 1: Introduction The War Card Game App is our tried and tested beginners’ app that will help you get a grasp of the core concepts in iOS development in no time. By the time you complete this app you will have taken the first step to app development and hopefully inspire you to learn… View Article
Chris C • May 01 2024
SwiftUI Maps: How to launch Apple Maps from your app
The  UIApplication class provides a way for apps to control and coordinate user events with other apps on the device, One of the features is being able to open Apple Maps app through our own app! More specifically we will be working with the LSApplicationQueriesSchemes is a type of Launch Services Keys which is used to provide… View Article
Chris C • May 01 2024
SwiftUI Maps: How to launch Google Maps from your app
The  UIApplication class provides a way for apps to control and coordinate user events with the built-in apps on the device, One of the features is being able to open Apple Maps app through our own app! More specifically we will be working with the LSApplicationQueriesSchemes is a type of Launch Services Keys which is used to… View Article
Chris C • May 01 2024
SwiftUI: How to add custom fonts to your app
The UIFont class is a programmatic interface to access font characteristics and provide the system with glyph information of the font. In SwiftUI UIFont has been simplified to a system class called Font that makes it easier to set custom fonts to be used by the application! Setting up To add a custom font, we of course need to… View Article
Chris C • May 01 2024
SwiftUI MapKit: How to add a pin to a map (MapAnnotation)
The MapAnnotation class is utilized as an annotation object that ties itself to a specified point on the map. We can use it to load a create pins with notes on our map! Pre-requisites Creating a MapAnnotation for your Map requires two parts. First is the array of locations that you want to add to the Map,… View Article
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