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#271
Moving on to the next segue in our storyboard, this time Ben and Soroush tackle the Add Review flow. They discuss naming of delegates, the ideal place to perform logic such as preparing a model to be saved and where mutations to the model live. They end up with a view controller that is completely decoupled from the AddReviewViewController and a better picture of what the coordinator tends to look like.
#270
In this episode, Soroush and Ben create the first delegate for a view controller in order to pull out the behavior a user might trigger by interacting with the view controller. This delegate conformance is added to our coordinator so this flow logic is in one place (and not in the view controller).
#269
Saving records includes uploading any attached assets. For a good user experience, we should show the user the progress for any records that are being saved (or downloaded). In this episode we’ll see how we can get that data and show a progress bar for uploading photos. To do this we will take a look at a new class, CKModifyRecordsOperation.
#268
What is the Coordinators pattern, and why is it useful? Soroush and Ben discuss this and then get started refactoring an existing application that uses Storyboards into using Coordinators. We implement our first AppCoordinator and wire it up on launch.
#267
Fetching records in CloudKit fetch the entire record, including downloading any associated assets. This makes it not feasible to fetch many records at a time. Instead, we'll see how to fetch a subset of each record, keeping the overall size of the request small. We'll also introduce paging to request a single visible set of records at a time.
#266
Working with images in CloudKit can be tricky. There's no server code you can add to process images to create multiple versions, for instance. In this episode we'll see how we can pick an image from the user's photo library and upload them to a new Photo record, which contains original and thumbnail versions of the uploaded picture. We'll leverage some helper methods to automatically translate from a UIImage to a CKAsset and vice-versa.
#265
Have you ever wanted to replicate the 3D Touch actions that are available in Mail.app? How do you make these custom interactions beyond the simple action sheet that you get out of the box? In this episode Conrad walks us through adding custom interaction using 3D Touch to a list building application.
#264
We'll wrap our Review record in a model object, then create a method to show all reviews for a given restaurant. We'll then look at how to display the reviews and how to add a new review using the UI.
#263
We learn how to link records together to create relationships between records using CKReference.
#262
Conrad Stoll shows us how to implement Peek and Pop using 3D Touch on supported devices. We learn how to do it in code versus the storyboard, as well as how to customize the display and presentation of the previewed view controller.
#261
Writing boilerplate code can get tedious and boring. It can also lead to code duplication, which means it becomes a liability to keep in sync. Sourcery is a code generation tool that can help leverage your existing types and reflect on them in order to generate useful bits of code. In this episode Sam Soffes shows us how to install and use Sourcery, how to integrate it with Xcode’s build system, and how to create a simple Sorcery template to automatically count the number of items in a Swift enum and add it as an option.
#260
Now that we have saved records in CloudKit, how do we fetch them again? This video covers how to fetch a single record by ID, how to use full-text search to match partial terms, how to return all records (with paging support) and how to query by location.
#259
In order to use CloudKit to read or write private data (or to write in the public database) the user will have to be signed in to iCloud on their device. If they are not, they'll not have a great experience, and things won't work. In this episode we'll check the account status before trying to save a record in CloudKit. We'll also respond to the notification to know when the user's account status has changed so we can react accordingly.
#258
The first episode in a new series on CloudKit, here we see how to setup our project to use CloudKit as well as how to create and save our first record.
#257
In this episode, Dory finishes up implementing notifications for the Beer Button watch app. We learn how to configure and send timed notifications, and how to respond to those on the watch.
#256
In this episode Dory Glauberman covers how to set up notifications in your application on both the iPhone and Apple Watch using UNUserNotificationCenter. It highlights best practices for requesting notification authorization and demonstrates how to fire a sample notification for the Beer Button watch app.
#255
Sam Soffes walks us through an elegant way to handle 4-digit PIN input, for cases where you have a software lock screen to your app, or perhaps a 4 digit confirmation code is sent to you via SMS and you need to type it in to continue. Often this type of thing is done with four text fields side-by-side, with awkward delegate implementations to manage focus, etc. Instead, Sam shows us how to leverage the UIKeyInput protocol and create a much cleaner implementation.
#254
In this episode Conrad takes us through supporting the new dock feature in watchOS 3. If you want your watch app to be used, you should ensure it plays well with the dock by providing relevant UI snapshots that create a more seamless experience. The reward is that your app is treated like a first class citizen and kept running for longer!
#253
In this episode, Conrad Stoll takes us through the new APIs we have for accessing raw information from the digital crown on the Apple Watch. In previous versions of watchOS, we had to resort to using builtin controls (or silly hacks), but now we have the raw data so we have much more flexibility.
#252
In this episode, Conrad Stoll joins us once again to talk about how to use WCSession to pass data back & forth between our watchOS app and our iOS app. We'll use this power for the ultimate good, of course, by ordering a beer straight from our watch.
#251
In this episode we cover some lesser-known features of Swift, including @discardableResult, escaping closures, defer, and using dump versus print for better debugging output.
#250
In this final episode in the Poker Hands Kata with Soroush Khanlou, we finish off by improving the design of our program, improving our tests, and implementing the remaining features for detecting the more complicated hands.
#249
In this episode I am joined again by Soroush Khanlou. We continue our exploration of the Poker Hands kata, focusing on fleshing out our types. We also begin matching poker hands, leveraging enums with associated types.
#248
In this episode I am joined by Soroush Khanlou. Together we pair up to implement the Poker Hands Kata. We start off by parsing the raw string input into structured types, complete with tests.