Weekend good reads for Apple developers #2024/3

So, pre-orders have started… If you already ordered, or you’re waiting – anyway, we have some great reads for you for this weekend.

• Let’s start with good review of Xcode Cloud by Chip Loder – Understanding Xcode Cloud, Apple’s CI build service;
  
  
• And another guide by Chip Loder – Understanding CPU job scheduling for Apple Silicon game development – this time covering how CPU works on Apple platforms;
  
  
• SwiftUI Button Styles And Shapes by Keith Harrison goes through controls styling in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Marco Eidinger navigates on signing process for binary frameworks – How to verify a signed xcframework programmatically;
  
  
• Concurrency-safe global variables to prevent data races by Antoine van der Lee is focused on making global resources thread-safe;
  
  
• Rik Haandrikman shares options for developers on use of external payment links in iOS apps – The Supreme Court’s stance on Epic vs. Apple case: What this means for App Store monetization;
  
  
• Jesse Squires gives a hint on interesting protocol considerations – Swift protocol requirement quirks;
  
  
• Connecting your git repository with a remote server by Donny Wals continues his series on use of Git;
  
  
• Flora Damiano explores principles of great app icons in Crafting better App Icons;
  
  
• The Flexible Swift Error Handling by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is a great guide on how define error conditions and how to handle those.

That is it for this weekend. Since we still have to wait for two more weeks for Vision Pro to hit the stores, we could spend some time on these interesting topics. See you next week!