Sam Merrell

Swift

iOS Share Extension with SwiftUI and SwiftData

Writing a Share Extension for iOS using SwiftUI and SwiftData was an exercise in trial-and-error along with a frustrating lack of documentation from Apple. I could find very few resources on how to develop a Share Extension and want to share what I’ve learned in case it might help others out. I’d love to hear other people’s experiences with this so if you have something you can... Read more.

Getting to Know Swift

For the last several years I’ve primarily been a backend developer using C# and occasionally doing work on the frontend with JavaScript. I’ve dabbled in learning Rust as well but I wanted to try my hand at writing native iOS and macOS applications for a change. After doing some research on where to begin, I started reading the book App Development with Swift by Apple. This book has... Read more.