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How I Handle External Links in My iOS App with a Built-In Copy Option

How I Handle External Links in My iOS App with a Built-In Copy Option

Ever tapped an email link and had it open in the wrong app.... or wished you could simply copy it instead? Here's how I made a SwiftUI view that gives users the power to open or copy any external link, whether it's a website or a mailto URL. Works in both iOS and macOS.

How a Sleep Screen Sparked an App: The Story Behind Simply Customize It

Simply Customize It!

How a Sleep Screen Sparked an App: The Story Behind Simply Customize It

What started as a curiosity about changing my reMarkable’s sleep screen led to a rabbit hole of templates, blog posts, bash scripts, and eventually a full app. Here’s how Simply Customize It came to be... and why I’m still building it today.

SwiftUI Overlays and Their Issue With Sheets

SwiftUI Overlays and Their Issue With Sheets

A bit ago I realized the sheets in my app covered up my overlay messaging. This wouldn't do so I figured out how to show the overlay from every spot. Check out how I created the overlay and fixed the problem here!

Create a Super Simple Shared SwiftUI Alert System

Create a Super Simple Shared SwiftUI Alert System

Do you want a simple shared alert system in your SwiftUI app that works in both iOS and macOS from, mostly, one location? No more moving it up and down a view spot seeing if it will work now!

Steps My App Needed To Get into the Apple App Store

Steps My App Needed To Get into the Apple App Store

With my first app officially in the App Store I wanted to share what I now know in case it can help you too!

SwiftData: Solving Fatal Errors and EXC_BAD_ACCESS While Handling Entities on Different Threads

SwiftData: Solving Fatal Errors and EXC_BAD_ACCESS While Handling Entities on Different Threads

I've recently switched the app I've been coding from CoreData to SwiftData and, once I sped up some backend code using concurrency, came across an issue where my code kept crashing when creating new entities. Here is how I solved both my fatal and bad access errors!

SwiftData: Solving Filtering by an Entity in the Predicate

SwiftData: Solving Filtering by an Entity in the Predicate

With SwiftData announced I realized now is the best time to convert my data over. That said, it wasn't without its issues and I found filtering by an entity relationship was, for me, one of the biggest blockers. Here's how I solved it!

Update to "My Custom Picker With Multi-Selection in SwiftUI" - Now With Images!

Update to "My Custom Picker With Multi-Selection in SwiftUI" - Now With Images!

I've upgraded my custom multi-selection picker, in SwiftUI, to now be customizable using a struct rather than string array. This means it works for images... and whatever else you want to add.

How To Make a Custom Picker with Multi-Selection in SwiftUI

How To Make a Custom Picker with Multi-Selection in SwiftUI

I recently realized that there wasn't a simple way to create a SwiftUI Picker that allows for multiple selection. After much trial and error this is the solution I came up with! Hope it helps your coding adventures.

How to Add Dynamic Constraints to Your Swift Project

How to Add Dynamic Constraints to Your Swift Project

Are you needing a more dynamic solution to your constraints than the Xcode interface builder seems to be providing? Here's how I created two constraints in my Swift code and looped them with the front end for a dynamic solution to my problem.

How to Debug and Solve an App Sandbox Related Issue Within the Xcode IDE

How to Debug and Solve an App Sandbox Related Issue Within the Xcode IDE

Are you coding a project for your Apple device(s) and having inexplicable trouble getting a portion of it to work? Maybe the App Sandbox is blocking your code from executing properly? If so this is what I did to debug my issue and solve it!