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Dash and Xcode 12

During my day job as an iOS developer I heavily rely on Dash. Basically, I have no idea what I'm doing and Dash helps me to cover that. Well, it was helping me:

  • Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 33.2

So, it took me some  time to work through todays learning material more thoroughly than last time. Welcome to day 33, part 2. It was a good idea to re-read this. It feels

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    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 32.2

Well, let's say, I needed a break for like a whole month. From time to time I had a bad conscience that I kind of stopped, but let's call it a break. The

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    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 33

Wow, another day with animations and transitions! Although I have to admit, that I'm not very talented — or used to, at least — when it comes to designing things — and animations especially — I really,

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    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 32

Today's Day 32, time for another technique-project to learn new things: This time, it was about animations — and they were really fun! A few weeks ago, I built some animations and transitions. And

  • Nathan Mattes
    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 31

Well, Day 31: It's review time again! I had to answer twelve questions — I scored 12 out of 12! — and solve three challenges to improve the game called WordScramble. To be honest, I

  • Nathan Mattes
    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 30

Aaaaaand I'm done with Day 30. After having learned about UITextChecker and Lists yesterday, I put them to use today. I also learned how to use onCommit with Textfield and onAppear, which seems

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    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 29

Another day, another small blogpost about my progress. I kind of get used to this daily blogging-thing and I really like it! Day 29 was the first day of the fifth project, which

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    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 28

I missed yesterday, as life got in my way. But I didn't want to miss today, too, so I sat down before going to bed and just did Day 28: It was review

  • Nathan Mattes
    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 27

Today I implemented the fourth project. It's a fun little app that helps you calculate when you should go to bed. It takes some parameters (when do you want to wake up? How

  • Nathan Mattes
    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 26

I just finished the 26th day aka second day in a row 🎉🥳 For the first time ever, I did something with Core/Create ML, as this is part of the 4th project: I

  • Nathan Mattes
    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 25

This is the first time in ten days that I attended the SwiftUI-course by Paul Hudson. I'm taking a few days off from work right now, but the week before my vacation was

  • Nathan Mattes
    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 24

Day 24, or as Paul says: Project 3, part 2. There were some challenges, in which I had to change the former projects to use a view composition, conditional modifiers and I had

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    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 23

Day 23, so this is the 23rd blogpost. I learned about more details of SwiftUI: Why it uses structs, how to create my own custom modifiers and how I can compose views from

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    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 22

Today was another challenge day, this means: I had to change some code of the GuessTheFlag-project and answer some questions afterwards. It didn't take a lot of time and right now, on a

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    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 21

After playing around with colors and gradients yesterday, I just finished the 21st part. I learned about some more modifiers today. For example, adding shadows to elements is pretty easy in SwiftUI. And

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    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 20

I just finished Day 20 — and it unexpectedly totally brightened my day! Today was the introduction day for the second project. Paul talked about the different stack types in SwiftUI, button, alert — and

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    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 19

Today, at Day 19 was the challenge day — and it was great! Basically, you had to build a unit conversion-app from scratch. Paul gave some examples on units and some tips and tricks

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    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 18

Wow, it's already the 18th day. Nearly one fifth is done! 🥳🥳🥳 Today I reviewed the small app we built as a first project using SwiftUI, there as little exam and then there were

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    Nathan Mattes
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100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 17

I like, how the first project is structured: Yesterday, there was a little introduction with all the basics and today was implementation day. The task was to build a little form and do

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    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 16

Technically, today yesterday — as I forgot to write this exact blogpost — was the first day of this whole thing I spent writing some SwiftUI-code. Nevertheless, it was already day 16. It was a

  • Nathan Mattes
    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 15

Ha! I was right yesterday: The review of closures was part of the 15th day! I liked on this day, that Paul went a bit more into the details of access control and

  • Nathan Mattes
    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 14

I skipped yesterday's part of 100 Days of SwiftUI, as I had a very stressful day at work and afterwards, it was pretty late and there wasn't much energy left. So, today was

  • Nathan Mattes
    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 13

Time flies. A few weeks ago, COVID—19 has caused a global pandemic — which is still there — and eight days ago, a white racist police officer murdered George Floyd. Two days later, Tony

  • Nathan Mattes
    Nathan Mattes
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100daysofswiftui

100 Days of SwiftUI — Day 12

I'm nearly done with the first part of the SwiftUI-course: Tomorrow starts the review of the Swift-part and today was basically the last day about Swift-basics. And the only important thing missing were

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    Nathan Mattes
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