Tag: Design

Apple announces Keynote and Platform State of the Union time for WWDC23. Keynote will start 10am PT, June 5, 2023. Platform State of the Union is planned for 1:30pm.

Apple also announced Apple Design Awards finalists. Winners will be announced on June 5, 2023 at 6:30pm PT.

Apple Newsroom: Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference to kick off June 5, 2023

Apple Developer:

• Swiftly developing
• Apple Design Award finalists announced
• Apple Design Awards – Meet the 2023 finalists
• WWDC23

References:

• WWDC 2023 Swift Student Challenge Winners Receive AirPods Pro, Sweatshirt and Pins
• Apple Announces WWDC 2023 Schedule, Including Keynote Time
• Apple teases WWDC 2023, confirms keynote for June 5 at 10 a.m.

Sunny and hot days are taking over Bay Area. I'm sure it would be harder to find some time to go through interesting articles, but let's try. We've got couple of really good reads today.

• Bruno Rocha provides great advise on saving during builds – Reducing iOS Build Times by using Interface Modules;
  
  
• Makwan Barzan reminds of jailbreak detection importance – The reason why you should keep maintaining Jailbreak detection in your iOS apps;
  
  
• And also provides a glance on new access modifier in Swift – Meet An Upcoming Swift Access Modifier: package;
  
  
• How to identify parts of speech and names in a text with Swift by Natascha Fadeeva is a great guide on Natural Language processing framework provided by Apple;
  
  
• Emanuele Agosta shares interesting article on designing interactions – Designing Micro-interactions to Create Seamless User Experiences (may require free registration);
  
  
• In our previous episode we already covered import and export in SwiftUI, here is another take by Keith Harrison – SwiftUI Importing And Exporting Files;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee provides great code examples for ranges in Swift – Ranges in Swift explained with code examples;
  
  
• Two important articles on how to use new Swift and iOS features with previous releases – Conditional Compilation for Apple’s Yearly Updates by Douglas Hill and API availability in Swift by Majid Jabrayilov;
  
  
• Let's finish with important topic of work-life balance by Krzysztof Zabłocki – Work-Life Balance for Sustainable Success.

And let's keep our work and life in balance – have some rest, read some interesting stuff and get back next week for new great topics!

It's the end of April, we are getting closer and closer to WWDC, June will definitely be filled with a lot of process. So, let's catch up with all prior-to-conference good reads.

• Natascha Fadeeva shares detailed guide on App Clips, the great way to attract new users – Developer guide on App Clips for iOS;
  
  
• Speedrun Design: Heart Rate Zone View in SwiftUI by David Smith continues series on how iterate through design ideas;
  
  
• Keith Harrison provides good use cases for Swift Reflection API – Using Swift Reflection;
  
  
• PhotosPicker in SwiftUI by Majid Jabrayilov goes through privacy-preserving photo picking API in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng explains on how to properly mix UIKit with SwiftUI – How to Use UIHostingConfiguration to Integrate SwiftUI Views into UIKit Apps;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee provides networking implementation hints in Optimizing your app for Network Reachability;
  
  
• Using TextKit configuration to optimize text display is explained in How to prevent orphan words in text views on iOS and macOS by Jesse Squires;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese guides through date display in Simplify Time Comparisons in Swift with RelativeDateTimeFormatter;
  
  
• SwiftLint in Depth by Ehab Amer explains important pipelines to keep codebase clean;
  
  
• How to use SFSafariViewController in SwiftUI by Sarun W. explains couple of issues on integrating SFSafariViewController into SwiftUI projects.

And that is it for today. Have a great weekend, go through interesting articles and come back next week!

Lucky episode of good reads today! And we've got a lot to cover on last day of March.

• Marcel Voss explains how to deal with new Swift features conditionally – Enabling Upcoming Swift Language Features;
  
  
• And good tip on source code checks for Swift features – SDK conditional code with canImport(module, _version: "1.2.3.4") by Marco Eidinger;
  
  
• How the relative size modifier interacts with stack views by Ole Begemann continues topic of complex layouts in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Keith Harrison explains sort options on SwiftUI tables – Custom Sort Comparators;
  
  
• How to change JSON keys by using Swift's CodingKey protocol by Natascha Fadeeva is covering Codable customizations;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov goes into details on new approaches of sharing content in SwiftUI – Sharing content in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Morphology in Swift by Jordan Morgan goes deep into Swift number localization techniques;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng continues his series on Widgets – How to Hide Sensitive Widget Data When Device Is Locked?;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains location debugging practices in simulator – Location Simulation in Xcode’s Simulator;
  
  
• How to fix "You are not authorized to make purchases of this InApp in Sandbox at this time" error by Sarun W. helps to fix development issues with in-app purchases;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese provides extensive guide on persistence solutions for iOS apps – SQLite vs Core Data in iOS Development: Which One Should You Choose?

We're finishing with video by David Smith on design.

With this – have a great weekend and see you in April!

Apple announces another series of sessions with App Store team from February 28 til April 13. Sessions include topics on app marketing, product pages, user acquisition, design, subscriptions, in-app events.

Apple to host sessions in multiple languages and different time zones to allow more users to participate.

Apple Developer: Meet with App Store experts

Apple Developer Events: Meet with App Store experts (schedule)

Weekend is coming with several great reads this time. Let's dive in!

• Point-Free Pointers finish their SwiftUI cycle – Modern SwiftUI: Parent-child communication, Modern SwiftUI: Identified arrays, Modern SwiftUI: State-driven navigation, Modern SwiftUI: Dependencies, Modern SwiftUI: Testing;
  
  
• Jaanus Kase covers aspects of iCloud encryption in CloudKit – What Advanced Data Protection for iCloud means for Tact and other apps that use CloudKit;
  
  
• David Smith is continuing his design series – DND 18: Creating Custom SF Symbols and DND 19: Designing for Smaller Dynamic Type Sizes;
  
  
• SwiftUI View's internals covered by Chris Eidhof – Variadic Views;
  
  
• Natalia Panferova covers ShareLink customizations in SwiftUI – Customize ShareLink appearance with view modifiers;
  
  
• Krzysztof Zabłocki continues his article on widget architecture – Widget Architecture - Part 2;
  
  
• A Less Evil NotificationCenter? by Jordan Morgan proposes an approach on better usage of NotificationCenter in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva provides good guide on keychain – Developer guide on keychain for iOS;
  
  
• How To Speed Up Swift By Ordering Conformances by Noah Martin explains how Swift protocol conformances impact app launch time;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on charts – Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Custom Marks.;
  
  
• Swift Package String Localization by Keith Harrison guides through details of providing localized resources in Swift packages;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explains how to deal with nested ObservableObject's in SwiftUI – The Nested Observables Problem in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Iterating over web socket messages with async / await in Swift by Donny Wals guides through structured concurrency usage with sockets;
  
  
• Two great articles by Marco Eidinger: minimizing device backup size – Prevent your app's files from being included in iCloud Backup and money-saving advice for GitHub Actions – Save money when using GitHub Actions for iOS CI/CD;
  
  
• New Scanning and Text Capabilities with VisionKit by Warren Burton covers on-device image recognition tools in VisionKit framework;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee advices on how to simplify testing of push notifications – Testing push notifications on the iOS simulator;
  
  
• And finishing with two articles by Douglas Hill – NSPredicate: an old API with new surprises and Using JavaScript in a Swift app.

This is a lot for a weekend, so choose wisely. :)

Mike Stern publishes post regarding updates to Apple Design Resources.

Apple Developer: Apple Design Resources

Tough week for IT engineers, but let's try to spend weekend improving our technical skills. There are many articles to go through today, so choose wisely.

• David Smith continues his design-related series: DND 16: Building Custom Controls and DND 17: Kind, Friendly Designs;
  
  
• You can make files of your app visible in system Files app – Make your app's files user-visible on the iPhone by Marco Eidinger covers exactly this topic;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains working with task groups in Swift – Task Groups in Swift explained with code examples;
  
  
• The Difference between Entity and Value Object, and How They Relate to Swift's Identifiable and Equatable Protocols by Christian Tietze explains value and reference types and their differences;
  
  
• Point-Free Pointers share their view on SwiftUI development – Modern SwiftUI;
  
  
• Couple of articles dedicated to animations start with Understanding basic animations in SwiftUI by Natascha Fadeeva;
  
  
• Then How to create Sound Wave Animation with TimelineView and Canvas in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese;
  
  
• Good tip on UIKit interoperability by Sarun W. – How to use SwiftUI as UIViewController in Storyboard;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on Charts in SwiftUI – Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Mark styling.;
  
  
• SwiftUI Toolbar Title Menus by Keith Harrison explains how to make navigation title interactive in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng guides on how to refresh widgets – How to Update or Refresh a Widget?;
  
  
• And the last piece for today – great reverse engineering article by Alin Panaitiu – Reverse engineering the MacBook clamshell mode.

That is it for today. Have a great weekend and come back next Friday for another pack of great reads!

Weekend is already here. And it will be a long weekend in US, so buckle up and get ready for a long list of truly good reads.

• David Smith keeps his Design Notes Diary cycle – DND 13: Checking the Weather, DND 14: Building an Accessible Chart, DND 15: Ruthlessly Limiting Scope, and comes with another article which might be interesting for indie developers – The Tyranny of the Churn Equation;
  
  
• Great take on AsyncStream by Donny Wals – Understanding Swift Concurrency’s AsyncStream;
  
  
• We all use UserDefaults, Natascha Fadeeva shares good tips on improving its experience – How to store a Swift struct in UserDefaults;
  
  
• Point-Free Pointers share their new dependency management library – A new library to control dependencies and avoid letting them control you (and a review of it by Alejandro Martinez – On the new Point-Free swift-dependencies library);
  
  
• Renaming Toolbar Navigation Title by Keith Harrison helps implementing new UI element – renaming current document from navigation bar;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan shares his thoughts on role of small things in overall user experience – Just a Little Nicer;
  
  
• Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Basics. by Majid Jabrayilov explores Charts library in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese shares great tips of interoperability between UIKit and SwiftUI – 5 Techniques to Effortlessly Send Data from UIKit to SwiftUI;
  
  
• Text modifiers in SwiftUI by Natalia Panferova guides through usage of modifiers for Text SwiftUI element;
  
  
• Emanuele Agosta describes good approach on prototyping process – Creating App Prototypes from Low to High-Fidelity;
  
  
• Enhance your Map experience with annotations by Elina Semenko covers MapKit usage including important topic on clustering.

And finishing up with one video on Swift memory ownership model:

And that is a wrap. Have a great weekend, have some rest, read some good news and come back next Friday for another pack of good articles!

It's Christmas weekend, and to give you time to celebrate, we've made slightly smaller list of articles. But those are really good.

• Peter Tretyakov is back with Code Signing Hell with XCFramework (by the way, he hinted that ChatGPT actually helped him to improve readability of the article);
  
  
• David Smith continues his design notes diary – DND 11: Better Dynamic Type Designs and DND 12: Sparkle Magic;
  
  
• How to Create an iOS Lock Screen Widget? by Lee Kah Seng explores use of WidgetKit for Lock Screen widgets;
  
  
• Moritz Philip Recke provides a guide on DocC usage on GitHub Pages – Configuring the Hosting Base Path in Xcode to Publish DocC Documentation on GitHub Pages;
  
  
• How to perform a lightweight migration in Core Data by Natascha Fadeeva guides through simple but important process working with Core Data;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explains new concurrency usage in SwiftUI – Efficiently Managing Multiple Async Tasks in SwiftUI.

And that is it for today. Merry Christmas and happy holidays!