The last few posts have been about my re-write of my personal application to address greeting cards. This has been a very frustrating effort as I’ve tried to restructure the app’s UI to better adhere to Apple’s design principles in order to allow the user edit both a recipient’s Address… Continue reading
This weekend I had a major milestone of the rewrite. All features are working (except edits). I was successful in adding a new feature of allowing for looking at all the cards sent for a specific event, i.e. Show me all the Christmas cards by date and recipient. This new… Continue reading
For the last five years or so, I’ve been working on a pet project to track the various greeting cards we send out each year. The initial version had a lot of UI problems, so I used it as an opportunity to learn SwiftUI. The second major rewrite was to… Continue reading
Configure Persistence Track and Persist changes Modeling at scale
Generate model classes Complete adoption Coexists with Core Data
Utilize schema Macros Evolving schemas
Check out “Meet SwiftData” to cover the basics. This is a code along session (https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10154) and you should download the code from https://developer.apple.com/documentation/SwiftUI/Building-a-document-based-app-using-SwiftData The code along get’s you to build a cross platform code flashcard app. Meet the App SwiftData models Querying models to display in UI Creating and… Continue reading
Code focused, using macros, to naturally work with SwiftUI Using the model Macro Working with Data Use SwiftData with SwiftUI