Day 98 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Building the SnowSeeker project (II)

🔑 takeaways:
👉 Use groups as top-level views in subviews to make them “dynamic”
👉 .dynamicTypeSize()
👉 Debug view hierarchy

Last official day, tomorrow is the last challenge and then we're already at day 100!

Day 97 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Building the SnowSeeker project (I)

🔑 takeaways:
👉 Primary & secondary screens (just add a 2nd view to NavigationView)
👉 .joined() or format: to format an array of strings

Great to see how easy you can make an app usable on different screens 🤩

First Tweet from my new iPhone 14 Pro ✨

iOS font sizes cheat sheet: https://xcancel.com/dominikhofer_/status/1583031232396345344/photo/1

constraints spark creativity.

Day 96 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Overview of the last project (SnowSeeker)

🔑 takeaways:
👉 Adaptive layout
👉 Can use sheets & alerts with optionals
👉 Groups are like divs
👉 Use .horizontalSizeClass to adjust view based on screen
👉 .searchable()

Which platforms to use if you like to create:

Shortform videos → Instagram, Tiktok
Longform videos → Youtube, Instagram
Photos → Instagram, Pinterest, Unsplash
Design → Instagram, Twitter, Dribbble
Coding/Building in public → Twitter
Writing → Twitter, Blog, Newsletter

By the way, I recently started a more creative/photography-focused Insta account (link in next Tweet).

Feel free to follow me over there for more visual content :)

Day 95 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Made a lil random number generator (dice roller)

Nothing too fancy, but I got to reuse some of the code from yesterday for the color interpolation :)

Day 91 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Some more GeometryReader action

Rows now fade up when they get to the top, get smaller, and the hue changes based on the vertical position.

Was very fun to work on (and visually pleasing 🤓)

Helix pt. II (interesting code in next Tweet) 👇

Let's get Andrew to 1k likes 🙌 https://xcancel.com/aheze0/status/1580723469204934656

Day 93 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ GeometryReader time

🔑 takeaways:
👉 Absolute & relative positioning (.position & .offset)
👉 GeometryReader reads the available space (expands)
👉 Global and local (relative) coordinates
👉 Sometimes, multiple GRs are required

Fancy helix alert:

Like physical exercise, mental activities also need a warm-up. https://xcancel.com/morgencalendar/status/1580555669178290178

10 life principles to live by:

“If you really hate someone, teach them to recognize bad kerning.”
– @xkcd

Day 92 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Learned how SwiftUI layouts work

🔑 takeaways:
👉 There are layout-neutral views/modifiers that ask their children for their size
👉 .alignmentGuide()
👉 Create custom alignment guides as enums

I can already feel that we're approaching day 100 fast!

Be a jack of all trades – and master of some.

Another day in Barça.

What an experience!

@FCBarcelona

A few impressions from today.

I just love simple but clever ideas like this.

Beautifully executed 👏 https://xcancel.com/graceongrid/status/1576348432926912513

Just discovered a great alternative to finsweet's attributes:

Webflow tools by @RefokusAgency

Some really great stuff there!

👇

I need some help from a Webflow pro regarding the editor:
https://discourse.webflow.com/t/not-able-to-edit-image-in-editor/218504

Has anyone else experienced this and can help point me in the right direction?

Thanks 🙏

cc @cedric_design @eklipsedev @bypratikraj

Day 91 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Added some additional features on my own

There were some slight improvements plus wrong-answered cards get added to the back of the queue. The last part is rather messy though, might have to revisit this part with a fresh mind…

From the @Codecademy data science path:

“In the end, your human oversight and critical consideration of the data will have the biggest impact on data quality.”

Really not a fan of the whole Figma/Adobe bashing, BUT…

Why is @Adobe charging me 12.– if I choose to cancel my monthly subscription? This doesn't make sense to me at all and is bad CX practice (ironically, they create products that are supposed to help you design great CX)…

That's great UX:

@pixelmator Photo allows you to set a reminder before you get charged after the free trial.

Kudos, that makes me want to support you even more 👏

Day 90 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Building the Flashzilla project (III)

🔑 takeaways:
👉 prepare() haptic feedback generator
👉 Don’t use haptic feedback too much
👉 You can add a dismiss function to sheets

Day 89 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Building the Flashzilla project (II)

🔑 takeaways:
👉 .background modifier

• Used some fancy ternary operators to change the background color of the cards. There is even an alternate UI for people who choose a specific color a11y setting.

Last race of the year ✔️

GPT3 is just out of this world. And I might have an idea to make the studying part of my school life (mostly summarizing/making flashcards) much, much easier…

👇

Day 88 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Building the Flashzilla project (I)

🔑 takeaways:
👉 RoundedRectangle with style .continuous creates a squircle
👉 You can init an array with repetition
👉 abs() for absolute number
👉 Pass closure to view to “access” parent view

Replace “I have to…” with “I get to…”

Makes things so much easier.

Beautiful words.

(An ongoing thread:)

Day 87 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Overview of the Flashzilla project (II)

🔑 takeaways:
👉 Use .onReceive for publishers (like timers)
👉 scenePhase tracks the state of the app (active, inactive, background)
👉 You can access the a11y settings of the user via the environment

If #Xcode doesn't seem to recognize your connected iPhone, try this command in your terminal after disconnecting the device and quitting the program 👇

Day 86 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Overview of the Flashzilla project (I)

🔑 takeaways:
👉 Child's gesture has priority by default
👉 Gestures can be sequenced
👉 CoreHaptics for complex vibrations
👉 .allowsHitTesting() & .contentShape()

Also, I created something … interesting 🤔

Government websites are usually a hot mess.

One positive example though is https://www.ch.ch/en. It provides simple answers to frequently asked questions for Swiss citizens.

Great UX, available in 5(!) languages and built with modern technologies (spotted Nuxt 🤓).

Day 85 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Added some additional features on my own

Also, there was a rewrite of the save and load functionality.

The awesome thing is, by now I already have built a library of code snippets, so I used one from the BucketList project for this feature :)

Day 84 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Building the HotProspects project (III)

🔑 takeaways:
👉 Encapsulate your code (getters & setters)
👉 Make properties & methods private if possible

Refactoring and making your code better is just 🫶

Day 83 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Building the HotProspects project (II)

🔑 takeaways:
👉 .textContentType for better autocompletion
👉 There is a built-in QR code generator

This QR code part sparked an idea in me – maybe I'll explore it further…

And there it is, I've finally made my first $ (well, actually it's even two) on the internet!

What a feeling 🙌

(@rungxanh1995 is responsible for this if you want to leave some nice comments 😉)

Since there were some requests to publish my wallpapers:

Introducing blurli:
minimal – beautiful – blurry af

Blurry and noisy wallpapers for desktop and mobile – carefully crafted and curated by hand.

Get them here: http://hoferdo.link/blurli

Thanks for your support ❤️

Sunday funsies:

Made some of my @Spotify playlists public and designed dreamy artworks for them (inspo: @FonsMans).

Enjoy!!

http://hoferdo.link/spotify

Awesome reference app for anyone learning SwiftUI! https://xcancel.com/SwiftDev_UI/status/1573822304890527744

Lil reminder that disliking the things you've created in the past is a sign of growth.

Day 82 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Building the HotProspects project (I)

🔑 takeaways:
👉 Customizable view with enums
👉 Reminder: Mark ObservableObject classes as @ MainActor
👉 Dynamically filter data with computed property

I enjoy these kinds of days just building layouts.

Day 81 #100DaysOfSwiftUI

✅ Overview of the HotProspects project (III)

🔑 takeaways:
👉 .contextMenu modifier for secondary actions
👉 .swipeActions on list items for further actions
👉 Two types of notifications: Remote & local

Great UX is already built in!

Did you know that there is a more convenient way to add the frame modifier you need in #Xcode14?

Just type .frame + the abbreviations of the properties you need (e.g. w for width, wh for width and height, …) and let autocomplete do the work for you!