App Development

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Lots of random notes from building an app. See also SwiftUI notes.

Make a Release in Xcode #

Product > Archive

Remove Unused Simulators from XCode #

xcrun simctl delete unavailable

Adding GitHub Package Dependency #

  • Personal Access Token must have repo access
  • Use the SSH GitHub URL and not the HTTPS one, otherwise it will fail git@github.com:user/repo.git

User Settings with UserDefaults #

var userDefaults = UserDefaults.standard

// set default values
userDefaults.register(
    defaults: [
        "enabled": true
    ]
)

// get value
UserDefaults.standard.bool(forKey: "enabled")

// set value
UserDefaults.standard.set(false, forKey: "enabled")

Open a SwiftUI View in Window #

// AboutScreenController.swift
import Cocoa

class AboutScreenController: NSWindowController, NSWindowDelegate {
    override func windowDidLoad() {
        super.windowDidLoad()
    }
}

// AppDelegate.swift
let windowController = AboutScreenController(
    window: NSWindow(
        contentRect: NSRect(x: NSScreen.main!.frame.width/2, y: NSScreen.main!.frame.height/2, width: 300, height: 200),
        styleMask: [.titled, .closable, .miniaturizable, .resizable, .fullSizeContentView],
        backing: .buffered, defer: false
    )
)

let aboutView = AboutView()
            
windowController.window?.delegate = windowController
windowController.window?.title = "TrackerZapper"
windowController.window?.contentView = NSHostingView(rootView: aboutView)
windowController.window?.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil)
NSApp.activate(ignoringOtherApps: true)

// AboutView.swift
import SwiftUI
import Cocoa

struct AboutView: View {
    var body: some View {
        VStack(alignment: .center) {
            Text("This is a window")
        }
        .frame(width: 200, alignment: .top)
        .padding()
    }
}

Show About Window #

// default
NSApplication.shared.orderFrontStandardAboutPanel()

// with options
NSApplication.shared.orderFrontStandardAboutPanel(
    options: [
        NSApplication.AboutPanelOptionKey(rawValue: "Copyright"): "© 2021 Robb Knight"]
)