Update 30/6/2022: I realised we shouldn’t be initing NSPredicate objects inside body so need a new approach. I was reading Paul Hudson’s article Dynamically filtering @FetchRequest with SwiftUI and thought I would share an improvement for declaring the singers @FetchRequest property that supports a dynamic predicate for filtering: FilteredList.swift ContentView.swift
Always wondered why NSFetchedResultsChangeUpdate is so buggy? The reason is Apple don’t actually use it in their own apps. Instead, what they do is have a UITableViewCell subclass with a custom property setter for the object where they add KVO for only the properties they are interested in updates to, Read more…
There is a new, yet not very well-known way to override NSManagedObject properties without needing to manually call KVO methods willChangeValueForKey etc. This is achieved using dynamic accessors prefixed with managedObjectOriginal as follows: Department.h @interface Department : NSManagedObject @property (nullable, nonatomic, copy) NSString *name; @end Department.m @interface Department (DynamicAccessors) – (NSString Read more…