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Today is — so I would like to celebrate my beautiful brother Andy! 🎉

(and Happy Birthday for last week 🎂)

Does anyone know how to stop this thing popping up on the Apple TV every 10 minutes?? I can’t see anywhere on my phone. It’s driving me nuts!

Babe are you okay? You've barely touched your monolithic if statement

The final part of the effect is to get the toolbar and page to move together as one. SwiftUI toolbars are anchored to their parent NavigationStack, so are unaffected by any page movements.

The trick here was to implement my own replica toolbar, and embed it in the safe area of the page.

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Instead, our new PageView container requests views one by one, only as they're needed.

Sometimes an imperative API is what you want 😅

PageView then has platform specific implementations using UIPageViewController and NSPageController, respectively.

You can take a look at the full code here: gist.github.com/phillipcaudell

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If you're familiar with SwiftUI, you might think it’s a TabView with a page style, but it's not.

TabView needs to know all your views upfront, which if you have lots of messages, is very expensive.

In this example, TabView reevaluates all 1,000 items on each and every swipe 🥴

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A new interaction in Big Mail is swiping between messages. The message background extends into the UI chrome, and when combined with the device-matched corner radius, creates the illusion of pushing the whole display – satisfying!

🧵 Here's how it's built, along with some code

Hello!

I still need to post an introduction, so here it goes.

I'm Phill, one of those designer/developer types. I quit my VC job a couple of years back to bootstrap my own business, The Not So Big Company (@updates).

I'm working on a fast and modern new mail client called Big Mail. The whole thing is written in Swift and SwiftUI, which has been an experience. 🤓

Launching very soon. In the meantime, enjoy some screenshots!

"In SwiftUI how do I create an angular progress indicator view that animates on change?"

The code straight up compiles when pasted into Xcode. Pretty remarkable.

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Uhmmm, okay. Wow. I asked ChatGPT how to parse IMAP responses in Swift.

Whilst it isn't quite right, it's astonishingly close.

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