Weekend good reads for Apple developers #2023/24

We’re all still processing the WWDC announcements, watching sessions, reading reviews. And here is another pack of good reads.

• Let’s start with some fundamental reads – June 2023: What’s new in the Swift Community? by Tiago Gomes Pereira goes through important announcements;
  
  
• WWDC 2023 Viewing Guide by Keith Harrison navigates through session structured in sections;
  
  
• Paul Hudson goes through SwiftUI updates in iOS 17 – What’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 17;
  
  
• A Developer’s View of Vision Pro by David Smith provides a independent developer’s point of view on new Apple device;
  
  
• SwiftData is covered by Josh Steele in SwiftData: Simplifying Persistence in iOS Apps;
  
  
• Charlie Chapman covers monetization news in WWDC 2023 highlights: What’s in store for subscription apps;
  
  
• Xcode productivity tip – See all parameter permutations in code completion in Xcode 15 by Natalia Panferova;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva covers Natural Language Processing framework usage – How to find synonyms with the Natural Language framework for iOS;
  
  
• This one is actually video, but an interesting one – how to bring mixins to Swift with macros – Unlocking Mixins with Swift 5.9 Macros by Alejandro Martinez;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng coves new controller to show “empty” screen – How to Handle Empty States Using UIContentUnavailableConfiguration;
  
  
• Christian Tietze mixes Swift Package Manager with Objective-C – Swift Package Import in Objective-C Might Just Work;
  
  
• Swift Result Builders: Getting Started by Andrew Tetlaw explains use of Result Builders in Swift;
  
  
• New scroll view transitions are explained in Mastering ScrollView in SwiftUI. Transitions by Majid Jabrayilov;
  
  
• Interpolate text with custom foreground style in SwiftUI by Natalia Panferova covers foreground styles added in iOS 17;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee goes through Swift macros – Swift Macros: Extend Swift with New Kinds of Expressions;
  
  
• Everything publishers need to know about app store fees, guidelines, and compliance by Peter Meinertzhagen focuses on App Store monetization questions.

That is a lot. Choose wisely. And.. #ICYMI Apple Treats team reviewed WWDC23. This was really fun episode and we went through important developer announcements and talked about spatial computing too.