Rudrank Riyam Apple Platforms developer. WWDC '19 scholar.

Stories by Rudrank Riyam

Build iOS Lock Screen Widget

Building iOS Lock Screen widgets

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Learn how to add rectangular, inline, and circular widgets to your iOS app’s Lock Screen for enhanced user experience.

Rudrank Riyam
Mar 16, 2023 ⋅ 6 min read
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Implementing tags using SwiftUI

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This guide demonstrates how to create a simple view for working with tags in SwiftUI. We’ll create a tag view in a sample quotation app.

Rudrank Riyam
Nov 30, 2022 ⋅ 8 min read
Exploring Live Activities API

Exploring the iOS Live Activities API

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Incorporating Live Activities into your iOS app enables you to provide real-time updates right on the Lock Screen or in the Dynamic Island.

Rudrank Riyam
Nov 16, 2022 ⋅ 7 min read
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Using UIPickerView in Swift forms: Tutorial with examples

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Let’s explore how to use UIPickerView in Swift forms to provide users with a selection of data choices presented in a wheel format.

Rudrank Riyam
Jul 25, 2022 ⋅ 8 min read
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Adding GIFs to your iOS app with FLAnimatedImage and SwiftUI

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Learn how to easily add animated GIFs to your iOS apps using a performant engine, FLAnimatedImage by Flipboard, and SwiftUI.

Rudrank Riyam
Jun 28, 2022 ⋅ 8 min read
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Simplify JSON parsing in Swift using Codable

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In this article, we’ll investigate simplifying JSON parsing in Swift using Codable. We’ll also review several practical JSON use cases.

Rudrank Riyam
May 24, 2022 ⋅ 11 min read
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Mastering typealias in Swift

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In this article, we review some basic and advanced examples of the typealias function in Swift, which can help make code more readable and easier to maintain.

Rudrank Riyam
May 6, 2022 ⋅ 6 min read
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A complete guide to the Swift defer statement

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Learn about Swift’s defer statement and syntax, and examine several real-world use cases that you can use in practice.

Rudrank Riyam
Feb 23, 2022 ⋅ 4 min read
Building Custom Charts In SwiftUI

Building custom charts in SwiftUI

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SwiftUI can be used to build charts for iOS apps faster as it requires less code. In this article, we use SwiftUI to create and style bar charts and line charts modeled after those from Apple’s Health app.

Rudrank Riyam
Jan 3, 2022 ⋅ 6 min read
How to Create a Framework in Swift

How to create a framework in Swift

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Learn how to create frameworks in Swift through Xcode to make your code modularized and reusable.

Rudrank Riyam
Jul 29, 2021 ⋅ 4 min read
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Swift extensions: An overview with examples

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Extensions in Swift are a way to add your functionality to types you do not own. This overview will show you how they work.

Rudrank Riyam
Jun 16, 2021 ⋅ 3 min read
For-in Loops in Swift Tutorial

for-in loops in Swift tutorial

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Learn how to use for-in loops for Swift, including examples using arrays, range operators, dictionaries, and enums.

Rudrank Riyam
Jun 10, 2021 ⋅ 7 min read