Swift Programming for macOS
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There are plenty of books, videos, and online resources for developing iOS apps. Despite the fact that iPhone and iPad apps require a Mac for code development, there is little information about actually creating native Mac applications. The examples discussed below demonstrate various aspects of Mac app development using the latest versions of Swift and SwiftUI. Hopefully these examples will provide a useful resource for Mac developers.

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Swift

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• Arrays
• Comments
• Compiler optimizations
• Create a package
• Date formatting
• Defaults command line tool
• Dictionaries
• Directory contents
• Discardable result
• Elapsed time
• Element-wise array addition
• Flat indexing an N-dimensional array
• Image from array data
• Image from colormap filter
• Install Xcode
• Normalize array values
• Package a library
• Range
• Read Eval Print Loop (REPL)
• Resources
• Strides
• Strings
• Terminal setup and commands

Swift UI

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• AppStorage
• Async for-in loop
• Blur effect
• Button styles
• Credits
• Cursors
• Display scale
• Grid lines
• Heat map chart
• Image from colormap filter
• Images and symbols
• Label
• LabeledContent
• Line chart
• Menu items
• NSPasteboard
• Open a window
• Path markers
• Picker control
• Preferences window
• ProgressView
• ScrollView
• Sidebar DisclosureGroup
• Sidebar toggle
• Sine wave
• Stepper
• Table
• Text
• TextField
• Three column NavigationView
• Toggle animation
• Toolbar dropdown
• Two column NavigationSplitView
• Two column NavigationView
• View Tap Gesture
• ViewBuilder
• WebView
• Window and toolbar style
• Window default size
• Window resizability

Accelerate

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• Absolute value
• Complex multiplication
• Matrix multiplication
• Reverse array elements
• Sort array values

Metal

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• Clear color
• Color view with compute kernel
• Matrix multiplication
• Noise
• Particles
• Sampler
• Triangle