Tag: Actors

Another weekend is coming, so here are some good reads to spend some free time.

• Nice article from Quentin Zervaas on Action Button support in watchOS apps – Adding Support for Apple Watch Ultra Action Button;
  
  
• Wojciech Kulik explores different IDEs for Apple development – How to develop iOS and macOS apps in IDEs like Neovim or VS Code?;
  
  
• Quick developer guide on SwiftData for iOS by Natascha Fadeeva goes through new persistence framework in iOS 17;
  
  
• RevenueCat publishes payment calendar which would be useful, if you sell apps or have in-app purchases or subscriptions – Apple fiscal calendar year and payment dates;
  
  
• Keith Harrison provides overview of new stub view available in iOS 17 – Content Unavailable Views;
  
  
• Being a good citizen in the land of SwiftSyntax by Point-Free Pointers covers important considerations when working with SwiftSyntax framework;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan promotes an approach to work with third party dependencies – Masking Third Party Dependencies;
  
  
• Mastering Preview macro in Swift by Majid Jabrayilov is great collection of hints on using new #Preview macro;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee goes through thread dispatch mechanisms in modern Swift concurrency – Thread dispatching and Actors: understanding execution;
  
  
• Designing for spatial computing: Understanding spatial awareness by Emanuele Agosta covers aspects of designing Apple Vision Pro apps.

That would be it for this week. Come back next Friday and we'll share more great articles.

iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro are arriving to first customers. Hopefully, you've got the model you wanted and now you have some time to go through interesting reads.

• Michael Tsai got list of all interesting changes in Swift 5.9;
  
  
• How to intercept and edit a server response with Proxyman for iOS by Natascha Fadeeva is nice overview of network traffic debugging techniques;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese goes through keyboard support in iOS – Discovering All SwiftUI TextField Keyboard Types;
  
  
• With new iPhones being delivered iPhone 15 Screen Sizes by Keith Harrison will help you build pixel-perfect graphics for your apps;
  
  
• WeatherKit Tutorial: Getting Started by Saleh Albuga will guide you through Apple's framework for weather data access;
  
  
• David Smith explores interactive widgets in Widgetsmith 5: Interactive Widgets for iOS 17;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov covers actors in Thread safety in Swift with actors;
  
  
• App Intent driven development in Swift and SwiftUI by Antoine van der Lee goes through new framework triggering integrations with Siri, Shortcuts and other system features;
  
  
• Jon Reid covers interesting aspects of code refactoring in See the Magic of Iterative Refactoring: A Swift Case Study;
  
  
• DocC: Project documentation structure by Marin Todorov (who also worked on DocC) guides through documentation structure;
  
  
• Domenico De Luca explains adoption of Dynamic Type in Supporting Dynamic Type and Larger Text in your app to enhance Accessibility.

And this is it for today. Have some fun over the weekend (especially if you got your new iPhone) and get back next Friday for another pack of great reads!

It is May already. In just a month WWDC23 will give us tons of things to watch, to read and to try. And today we'll go through something interesting too.

• Learn how to detect language of the text with How to detect the language of a text with the Natural Language framework in Swift by Natascha Fadeeva;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains how @MainActor works – MainActor usage in Swift explained to dispatch to the main thread;
  
  
• Developing Mixed-Source Swift Packages by Daniel Langh covers use of different languages in Swift Package Manager;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov explains multiple uses of overlay in SwiftUI – The power of overlays in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Tips and Tricks for Using ContainerRelativeShape in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is a great guide on little less known shape in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan explains how debug apps that use tabular data – Using TabularData to Dump Model Data;
  
  
• Sarun W. covers some aspects of Xcode Previews – Xcode Previews: What is it, and how to use it and Detecting if SwiftUI app is in Xcode Previews.

And that is it for today. Have a great weekend, have some time for self-education. And we'll be counting days til WWDC :) See you next week!

Together with iOS 15 Swift 5.5 is now released. Swift 5.5 contains a lot of changes for the developers, biggest being Structured Concurrency, actors, AsyncSequence and many others.

Starting today we're publishing digest of interesting articles to read over the weekend. This issue covers Swift, SwiftUI and other development topics on Apple platforms.

• One of the important reads which will define Swift development over the years – pitch on Distributed Actors;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng goes publishes Preventing Data Races Using Actors in Swift explaining usage of actors;
  
  
• Federico Zanetello publishes couple of interesting articles – Every SwiftUI Environment Value explained which covers environment values used in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Another Frederico's article is View masking in SwiftUI going from clipping to custom masks over views;
  
  
•  John Sundell publishes review on Codable synthesis for Swift enums. New Swift features allow easy JSON models over enums;
  
  
• Article from Sarun Wongpatcharapakorn goes through JSON data model simplification in How to set custom CodingKey for the convertFromSnakeCase decoding strategy article;
  
  
• Using Variadic Parameters in Swift article from Gabriel Theodoropoulos makes deep dive into Swift feature that is commonly forgotten;
  
  
• Long read on debugging years-old issue – Reverse engineering a 5 year old Xcode issue by Bruno Rocha.