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Hiding the back button's text in SwiftUI
Hiding it with navigationBarBackButtonHidden also costs you the swipe-back gesture and the long-press stack. Adjusting UINavigationBar's appearance is the safer route.
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A chat-like screen in SwiftUI that also handles having only a few items
How to satisfy both of the things a chat screen is expected to do in SwiftUI — the newest item stacking at the bottom, and items sitting at the top when there are only a few.
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Exporting ARKit face tracking results as an obj file
How to convert the ARFaceGeometry you get from ARFaceTrackingConfiguration into an MDLAsset and write it out in obj format with export(to:).
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The system font sometimes renders as Times New Roman on iOS 13
When a system font is set on a UITextView and similar views, it can switch to Times New Roman at runtime. Setting the UIFont explicitly in code works around it.
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Getting the device token string needed for push notifications
How to convert the Data handed to you by didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken into a String, and what changed about description in iOS 13.
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Using xcfilelist in Xcode's Build Phase Run Script
Tidying up the ballooning Input Files list you get with Carthage, using the Input File Lists (xcfilelist) added in Xcode 10.
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Thinking through how to detect GDPR territories from an iOS app
A look at the options for deciding, inside the app, whether the user is in an EEA member state.
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Converting between camelCase and snake_case with Codable
Using JSONDecoder's keyDecodingStrategy and keyEncodingStrategy to absorb the difference in naming conventions without hand-writing CodingKeys.
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Using UserDefaults in a type-safe way
Two approaches for preventing typos in keys and mismatched types — wrapping UserDefaults, and using Mirror.