Tag: SwiftUI

All the articles with the tag "SwiftUI".

• Showing Settings from macOS Menu Bar Items: A 5-Hour Journey

  Published: 16 Jun, 2025

  • 6 min read

  Why something as simple as showing a settings dialog from a macOS menu bar app took me 5 hours to figure out, and requires 50 lines of code for what should be a one-liner.

• Top-Level Menu Visibility in SwiftUI for macOS

  Published: 9 Apr, 2021

  • 3 min read

  Working around SwiftUI's CommandsBuilder limitations to conditionally show top-level menus on macOS using direct AppKit integration.

• Fixing keyboardShortcut in SwiftUI

  Published: 31 Jan, 2021

  • 7 min read

  Debugging and fixing a SwiftUI keyboardShortcut bug that fails when mixing SwiftUI with UIKit through reverse engineering and LLDB analysis.

• Supporting Both Tap and Long Press on a Button in SwiftUI

  Published: 27 Jan, 2021

  • 6 min read

  Creating a SwiftUI button that supports both tap and long-press gestures by bridging to UIKit when SwiftUI's gesture system fails on Catalyst.

• Forbidden Controls in Catalyst: Optimize Interface for Mac

  Published: 22 Sep, 2020

  • 7 min read

  Investigating why certain UIKit controls throw runtime exceptions in Catalyst's 'Optimize Interface for Mac' mode and discovering which controls are forbidden.

• Disabling Keyboard Avoidance in SwiftUI's UIHostingController

  Published: 21 Sep, 2020

  • 6 min read

  Fixing unwanted keyboard avoidance behavior in UIHostingController using runtime dynamic subclassing to override keyboard notification handling methods.

• The State of SwiftUI

  Published: 13 Sep, 2020

  • 7 min read

  Testing SwiftUI's production readiness in iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur through Apple's Fruta sample app, revealing performance issues and platform-specific limitations.