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Calling asynchronous Firebase APIs from Swift
Callbacks, Combine, and async/await
Feb 2, 20229 min read25
Firebase Authentication: Migrating User Data
This article is part of a series of articles that explores building a real-world application using SwiftUI, Firebase, and a couple of other technologies. Here is an overview of the series and what we're building: In part 1 of the series, we focussed...
Nov 9, 202016 min read238
Firebase and the new SwiftUI 2 Application Life Cycle
For the longest time, iOS developers have used UIApplicationDelegate to handle application startup and other lifecycle events in their apps. At WWDC 2020, Apple made some significant changes to how apps participate in the application lifecycle. In t...
Oct 19, 20206 min read186
Adding Data to Firestore from a SwiftUI app
Previously in this series of articles about SwiftUI and Firebase, we talked about fetching data from Cloud Firestore and how to map from Firestore documents to Swift structs using Swift's Codable API. You might recall that we also introduced a way t...
Jul 1, 202011 min read117
SwiftUI: Mapping Firestore Documents using Swift Codable
Last time, we looked at how to connect a SwiftUI app to a Firebase project and synchronise data in real time. If you take a look at the code we used for mapping from Firestore documents to our Swift model structs, you will notice that is has a number...
May 5, 20207 min read162
SwiftUI: Fetching Data from Firestore in Real Time
SwiftUI is an exciting new way to build UIs for iOS and Apple's other platforms. By using a declarative syntax, it allows developers to separate concerns and focus on what's relevant. As with everything new, it sometimes takes a while to get used to...
Apr 22, 20209 min read139