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SwiftUI - Using AsyncImage API in iOS15

SwiftUI - Using AsyncImage API in iOS15

Apple introduced an AsyncImage API in iOS15. This API solves the long-standing image download problem for iOS developers without using any third-party image downloading libraries. Asynchronously downloading remote images from URL has been a long pain point and having to add third-party frameworks only adds to this pain. Let's see

AsyncSequence in Swift

Apple introduced the AsyncSequence in Swift 5.5. This is one of the major features released in this Swift version to improve the Swift concurrency. In today's post, we are going to take a look at what AsyncSequence are and how you can make your own custom async sequence in

Wrapping Existing Async and Closure Based code in async-await structure (Advanced Swift Topic)

Wrapping Existing Async and Closure Based code in async-await structure (Advanced Swift Topic)

If you haven't yet read couple of my posts that introduce a new async-await construct in Swift, below are the links you can follow to know more about it How to use async/await in Swift using ExamplesUsing async/await APIs in Swift 5.5. Examples of using async await

Running async network operations in parallel on iOS using async-await

Running async network operations in parallel on iOS using async-await

Running parallel network operations on iOS was not always a smooth process. I remember that at my previous jobs, developers opted to use either third-party libraries or DispatchGroup to trigger parallel requests. These solutions had their own pros and cons. Using DispatchGroup in the code was tedious and its block-based

Async / Await in Swift

Async / Await in Swift

Apple introduced the concept of async/await in Swift 5.5 and announced it in the WWDC21 session. Today, we are going to see it in action and how you can leverage it to write readable async code in your app. Please note that async/await is only available in

Understanding the async behavior

Understanding the async behavior

Handling async behavior is tricky. I was caught into same gotcha when I first started dealing with async code few years back. It's useful behavior in most of the programming applications, especially when we're dealing with heavy or network-based operation. So you cannot really escape from it, so why not

iOS Testing - Testing asynchronous code (Part 4)

This is the part 4 in the series of articles on 'Unit Testing on iOS'. Below is the list of all articles and respective links to them. 1. iOS Unit Tests - Testing models creation (Part 1) 2. iOS Unit Testing - Testing View Controller (Part 2) 3. iOS Unit