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• Auto Resizable Text Size In SwiftUI

  • article
  • SwiftUI
  • Text

  When working on watchOS app I wanted to display text as big as possible for given frame. Additionally, I wanted to achieve this on every Apple Watch screen size without hardcoding any values. Doing this for one `Text` view is a little strange but simple in SwiftUI. However "syncing" the same *dynamic* font size across multiple text views and preserving layout was an interesting challange.

• Formatting string with C Format Specifiers leaks memory

  • article
  • bug
  • Foundation

  I’m working on an app, which displays a stopwatch on one of the views. To display stopwatch in a consistent way, values of minutes, seconds and milliseconds need proper amount of leading zeros. For example, values like `1 minute, 2 seconds, 3 milliseconds` should be displayed as `"01:02.003"`. There are two common ways of formatting numbers in Swift. However, one of them lead me to unexpected memory leak in my app.