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Swift Extension Resources

Four Clever Uses of Swift Extensions

A Swift extension allows you to add functionality to a type, a class, a struct, an enum, or a protocol. But extensions are more powerful than that.

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Over the source of Caramel’s development I struggled with organizing code using extensions so I spent some time pooling together a few resources from Swift experts.

June 24, 2019 955

Modal UINavigationController, iOS 13 dismiss detection, & UIAdaptivePresentationControllerDelegate

Just a quick tip for those who are trying to set the presentation controller delegate to capture presentationControllerDidAttemptToDismiss from UIAdaptivePresentationControllerDelegate or any of the like using iOS 13’s new modal.

iOS iOS 13

June 23, 2019

RxSwift + MVVM, my favorite solution

RxSwift + MVVM: how to feed ViewModels

Let’s go through two different approaches to providing inputs (Rx Events) to ViewModels.

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I began to follow this pattern when developing Mango and it’s quickly become one of my favorite and most powerful ways to connect View Models to their controllers. I’ve continued the pattern into Caramel 2 and without a doubt it’s a way I’ll continue to organize code in future projects, even when moving away from…

iOS RxSwift

June 19, 2019

Prevent component orphans with text using CSS

A quick solution to prevent html component orphans from mucking up your titles.

CSS

December 15, 2017

NSPersistentContainer

NSPersistentContainer is about to change your world.

Core Data iOS Other

November 19, 2016 14

automaticallyMergesChangesFromParent

I suggest setting automaticallyMergesChangesFromParent so it can observe changes from the parent store.

Core Data iOS

May 2, 2016

NSBatchDeleteRequest

NSBatchDeleteRequest works by deleting directly from the store and even though it’s the managedObjectContext executing the request, it happens outside of its knowledge and therefore, isn’t aware of the persistent store change.

Core Data iOS

November 26, 2013

:after and :before only apply to container elements

This is a fun fact for all of you CSS heads out there that I didn’t realize until this morning: The :before and :after pseudo elements only can be applied to containing elements, which makes sense, but hasn’t been something I’ve come across yet. While the button tag, which is a container and can have…

CSS

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