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Andrew Fletcher
iOS localization on the fly If you have added languages to your app... shortly afterwards you'll be getting yourself knee deep in changing the language on the fly.  Followed by the question – how do you change the language of the app without having to restart the app?  To change the language of the app there are a couple of key steps involved: Adding / managing languages Managing the app bundle By the way I have added to GitHub a demo app - switch languages showing how...
Andrew Fletcher
Updating Realm and RealmSwift from 5.5.x to 10.0.0 brought in the following...
Andrew Fletcher
After creating a new view with a @Binding string as follows struct EditRival:...
Andrew Fletcher
Building a contact list using SwiftUI has many challenges. One challenge is...
Andrew Fletcher
What to do when you want to filter a Realm object, using NSPredicate in...
Andrew Fletcher
I had an instance where I needed to move content from a plist to the server database.  To achieve this step, I added a few lines of code where the plist was called and added a call to the API so the data would be on the server. The original code appeared as: class ContactsSource { static var contacts: [Contact] { let data = try! PlistLoader.array(fromFile: "ContactsDB", ofType: "plist") return data.compactMap { Contact(dictionary: $0) } } }I needed to access...
Andrew Fletcher
Today while in Terminal, I ran a regular script pod update.  However, this...
Andrew Fletcher
I'm going to take you on a journey about adding a gradient tint to a...
Andrew Fletcher
Creating a new SwiftUI project is a quick process.  There are already...
Andrew Fletcher
How to apply a gradient tint over a background image? Set the background...
Andrew Fletcher
For detailed notes regarding how to add custom fonts to your iOS app see Apple's custom font notes. When using the font programmatically, remember that the font file name most of the time will not be the font name.  For example, I wanted to use SF-Pro-Text-Bold and its font name is SFProText-Bold.  If you want to check the font name, add the following script for family in UIFont.familyNames.sorted() { let names = UIFont.fontNames(forFamilyName: family) print("Family:...
Andrew Fletcher
Working on formatting the date in Xcode, and you come across the situation where...
Andrew Fletcher
Adding a floating decimal point for n number of places is quite easy to achieve....