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Hidde started out as a designer, but realized he wanted to build what he was designing too.  His sense of design stuck with him while learning how to make apps for the iPhone and Apple Watch. His latest creation is a niche Watch app for kite surfers called Volo.

More info on the apps Hidde creates: https://modumhq.com/

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Easter weekend, so I was offline a lot the last four days. Including my regular recording evening. Sometimes personal life takes priority. But just a day later we should be good with a quick recording. Six articles this week which I think you should read.

• Exporting data from Unified Logging System in Swift
• Transitions in SwiftUI
• Unit Testing and UI Testing in Swift
• The Hidden Costs of Your Dependencies
• How to create a GitHub Action to upload dsyms
• SwiftUI performance tips

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Awesome space on Swift Heroes with Adam, Amos, Martin, Stefan and me. I am still figuring out who the other speakers during the space were, I will update these note.

Some of the conferences we mentioned:

• Swift Heroes
• iOSDevUK
• App Builders
• Appdevcon
• SwiftConf
• Swift Leeds

Check all of these. It is great to meet again in person.

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I have been late publishing my regular episide. I am making it up by having a whole bunch of extra content. Also, lots of info on some cool conferences you should have a look at.

Swift Heroes

• Swift Heroes
• Secondary Skills as as Developer slides

Articles

• Building Things and Raising Children
• Swift Type placeholder: What is it and when to use it
• Logging in Swift
• SwiftUI Adaptive Stack Views
• How to add text input actions to iOS push and local notifications
• How to force two lines of Text in SwiftUI
• Enumerating and Counting Text Components in Swift

Conferences

• iOSDevUK
• App Builders
• Appdevcon
• SwiftConf

Runway
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This Twitter Space Stefan and I share some thoughts on what options you have in storing data on a device and in the cloud on/from iOS.

1. What is the goal of this space?

We won’t give you exact recommendations, storage is highly dependent on maaaany factors!

• Type of data to be stored (e.g. Booleans, Strings, Images, Large objects)
• Volume of data to be stored (e.g. settings options, notes app that saves users notes, offline backup for social network data)
• Needs to work offline?
• Sensitive data (encryption, data privacy, GDPR)
• Backed up?

2. What local options are there?

• UserDefaults
  • Most basic option for small settings data (recommended use from Apple)
  • Optimised for UIKit + SwiftUI
  • Only locally available
• Simple local file (e.g. Text, JSON)
  • More freedom to use a structure you want
  • More risks because you have to handle all by yourself
• Local database (e.g. SQLite)
  • provides more powerful options for querying, etc.
  • there are wrappers around it / libraries for easier usage
  • you have to know what you’re doing
• CoreData
  • most powerful local option
  • can have a steep learning curve
  • gives you a lot of power and flexibility

3. What online options are there?

• CloudKit
  • Apple’s cross-platform solution
    • can but does not have to be used with CoreData
  • Stefan: planning to use it for a side-project but haven’t used it before
  • great to sync data between user’s devices: iOS/tvOS/iPadOS/macOS/watchOS
  • limitation: only Apple ecosystem
  • mixing reports: some people had syncing issues some didn’t
• Firebase / Realm / AWS Amplify / Azure probably has a solution as well
  • necessary for apps with collaborative features (or maybe as a convenience for account-functionality)
  • platform-agnostic
    • share data between iOS/Android/Windows/Mac/Web
  • be aware of something called “vendor lock-in”
  • pricing is something to keep track of
    • there are horrible stories of people having incredibly high bills because of loops/bugs they had in their code
  • you give up control for convenience
    • not a bad thing but important to keep in mind

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