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Double Column Navigation in SwiftUI Document based apps is unfortunately not as straight forward as one might expect.

A new way of passing values to the commands section of a SwiftUI app even when the user is not focused on a text field.

Exploring how to access the hosting UIWindow & NSWindow in SwiftUI exposing its attributes and methods to your app.

How to access and modify the current document from menu items in SwiftUI.

Handing a dynamic Binding to an Array in SwiftUI. So that users and seemly edit new items.

How to add custom information and copyright to your app's About window on macOS Big Sur when using the SwiftUI app lifecycle.

Integrate with UndoManager in SwiftUI by building a reusable UndoProvider view that can be used with any Binding.

Add RawRepresentable conformance to a custom type that represents a setting or a view state in SwiftUI to be able to save it in AppStorage or SceneStorage.

How to add placeholder text to the new iOS 14 TextEditor view, that doesn't support placeholder by default.

Let users preview various file formats such as Images, Live Photos, PDFs etc. in your SwiftUI app using QuickLook framework.

Exploring how to add support for local network privacy if, for example, your app uses URLSession to access local servers.

Programmatically scroll SwiftUI ScrollView to a new item by combining the new APIs in iOS14: ScrollViewReader and onChange view modifier.

How to use the new iOS 14 @SceneStorage property to implement simple but powerful state restoration in SwiftUI.

An example realtime social network written with Django Channels Rest Framework that lets you subscribe in realtime to a hashtag.

How to implement a text field that can automatically resize if the text doesn't fit on one line.

In this article we will look into how to create a custom hover effect in SwiftUI and how to abstract this logic into a reusable view modifier.

How to view and manage files created by your app on the simulator, for example browse the Documents folder or Core Data SQLite Database.

Programmatically scroll SwiftUI List to a particular item, using the fact that its internal implementation is based on UITableView in iOS 13.

How to navigate to a list item by default on app launch to avoid showing an empty detail view on iPad or for state restoration.

Publishing database changes to subscribed WebSocket clients using Django Channels Rest Framework.

Looking into the differences of programmatically dismissing the detail view on iPhone and in a split view on iPad.

How to implement navigation in a SwiftUI List that works for both iPhone and iPad, so that we can programmatically select a list item.

Looking into different ways to use NavigationLink to navigate from List to a detail view and what problems we can encounter while implementing programmatic navigation.

Explore the features of Django Channels REST Framework for building WebSocket API consumers with Django.

How to modify the value of the binding before assigning it to the state and modify the state to match the binding type of the view, if we have a model that doesn't exactly match the binding that a view accepts.

At the moment there seems to be an issue with ScrollView: it will keep the width of its initial content and not resize/grow in width when the content changes. But there are some workarounds that we can use.

Make complex Swift Enums Encodable and Decodable for saving data to disk or interacting with Web APIs.

Add keyboard shortcuts to a SwiftUI iOS/iPadOS app to improve user experience when using your app with an attached hardware keyboard.

How to transfer an app build from a production Xcode to a beta iOS simulator and why we would want to do it.

Build a WebSocket server in Node.js using ws library and test it with a WebSocket client app.

How to define and use custom environment key-value pairs in SwiftUI to pass values to the hierarchy of child views.

How to tell a scrollable view in SwiftUI to scroll the active text field into visible range when the keyboard appears.