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Happy Holidays!

It's now Boxing Day 2023, and in between prepping the turkey n tahteeers, I've thrown together a little Christmassy Swift Joy.

I've created a Christmas tree which lights up upon pressing the Merry Christmas button. Initially I've tried to play around with the new animated SF Symbols but I boiled it down to some plain and simple ForEach structure in SwiftUI.

I've played around with the size of the SF Symbol, to figure out how many rows I can get away with, making me land on 8. So I went ahead and created the following:

ForEach(0..<(row + 2), id: \.self) { item in

BaubleView(animationsRunning: $animationsRunning, availableColors: availableColors)

@StateprivatevaranimationsRunning = false

let availableColors: [Color] = [.red, .green, .blue, .orange, .purple]

.symbolEffect(.bounce, value: animationsRunning)

Image(systemName: "rectangle.portrait.fill")

Image(systemName: isFilled ? "circle.fill" : "circle")

.onReceive(Timer.publish(every: 0.5, on: .main, in: .common).autoconnect()) { _ in

color = availableColors.randomElement() ?? .green

Christmas Special

I've been learning about the new data flow architecture announced at WWDC 2023! I am currently trying to figure out how to create a user class which will hold my data regarding the following:


• Amount of bottles I would like to drink every day.

• Daily streak record

I'm finding the relationship between Swift's front end and back end quite tricky to work through, but I'm just trying to persevere step by step before I launch into how to handle notifications based on bottle size and daily goal.


Having seen some tutorials which explained the old way of handling State, Environment and Observable objects, I think learning the new Observation  way is definitely the easier way, but more importantly, I'm sure this is going to become industry standard over the years.

Vlad +  Dev

Learning the new @Observable macro in iOS 17

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