Tag: Icon

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!

While we're all getting ready for Apple Vision Pro preorders to start, this weekend could be spent going through some interesting articles. Including some content for visionOS development too, so let's start with that.

• Apple Developer editors share answers on some questions raised by developers – Q&A: Building apps for visionOS;
  
  
• Peter Friese covers approaches to using SwiftUI view styles – Styling SwiftUI Views;
  
  
• Hint on bindings in SwiftUI byChris Eidhof – SwiftUI Binding Tips;
  
  
• Ensure safe code in your iOS app extensions by Marco Eidinger covers important aspects of code sharing with your app extensions;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov guides us on testing StoreKit in-app purchases – StoreKit testing in Swift;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee checks performance aspects of new @Observable macro – @Observable Macro performance increase over ObservableObject;
  
  
• Great tip on running unit tests slightly quicker with different app entry point – How to Bypass SwiftUI App Launch During Unit Testing by Jon Reid;
  
  
• Flora Damiano goes through icon design in visionOS – Adapting your App Icon to visionOS;
  
  
• Donny Wals gives hints on git conflict resolution – Understanding and resolving merge conflicts;
  
  
• How to use Published Properties inside a Protocol in SwiftUI? by Leonardo Maia Pugliese explains use of protocols with ObservableObject's;
  
  
• Francesco Perchiazzi covers principles of spatial design – Embracing Extended Reality (XR): diving deep into Spatial Design for visionOS.

That's it for today. Next Friday might be a little bit busy for some of us, but surely there will be more articles to read.

SF Symbols 5 is out of beta. SF Symbols is an app to browse collection of vector icons designed by Apple with respect to San Francisco font collection and provided for apps to use. At this moment, SF Symbols contains more than 5,000 icons.

SF Symbols app provides an ability to search for symbols, see its configuration options, animations, etc.

Download: SF Symbols

Reports arise that Apple Watch Series 7 fails to render app icons for some apps. Issue might be related with icons being rendered in the wrong size. Also, some complications are rendered incorrectly.

Biggest problem here is that issue is NOT reproduced on Apple Watch Series 7 simulator.