HSB (Hue, Saturation, and Brightness) represents color in a more human-understandable way, which closely mimics how colors are perceived in real life. Defining color using HSB instead of RGB (Red, Green, and Blue) in App design can result in a more intuitive design with the creation of harmonious color schemes and …
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It may have been too ambitious to ask ChatGPT to create an iOS app. So in this article, I ask ChatGPT to create a circular slider in SwiftUI. It can take a while and the more information provided to ChatGPT the better, but it is possible to get useable code from ChatGPT.
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The initial Task Manager app created with code from ChatGPT did not quite work correctly. In this article, I work with ChatGPT to resolve the issues and then add the ability to persist the tasks when the app is closed.
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Artificial Intelligence is trending at the moment with applications like DALL-E and Canva able to create images in certain styles and ChatGPT able to generate text. This article explores if ChatGPT can do more than childrens homework and see can ChatGPT create an iOS task app in SwiftUI. So I asked it to create a task …
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The async/await syntax, introduced in Swift 5.5, allows a readable way to write asynchronous code. Asynchronous programming can improve performance of an app, but it is important to cancel unneeded tasks to ensure unwanted background tasks do not interfere with the app. This article demonstrates how to cancel a task …
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The async/await syntax was introduced in Swift 5.5 with Meet async/await in Swift in WWDC 2021. It is a more readable way to write asynchronous code and is easier to understand than dispatch queues and callback functions. The async/await syntax is similar to those used in other programming languages like C# or …
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Apple introduced SwiftUI Charts at WWWDC 2022, which makes it incredibly easy to create charts within SwiftUI views. The default chart presents the entire data in the chart plot regardless of how much data is available. It can be beneficial to show more details on a chart and add the ability to scroll through the …
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Apple introduced NavigationStack and NavigationSplitView at WWWDC 2022 to replace NavigationView, which has been deprecated. The documentation for NavigationSplitView includes sample code, but the code does not work as it is missing model data. Here is some model data to allow the sample code in the documentation to …
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There are times when data in a bar chart has similar values for a number of the bars and it can be difficult to see the differences. One option is to zoom in on the top section of the bar chart. This article investigates a number of options and identifies the best approach for this in Swift Charts.
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I came across the Matthew effect recently, which struck me as very unfair so I wondered if I could reproduce the results demonstrated. This article outlines the Swift code for an app to test the redistribution of coins in a closed population based on random coin tosses between agents in the population.
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