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.

This is 40th edition of good reads in this year. Let's go through today's list.

• Swift team publishes Debugging Improvements in Swift 5.9, covering Swift 5.9 updates in aspect of debugging tooling;
  
  
• Simplified Responsive Design Mode by WebKit team covers Safari 17 additions for responsive design;
  
  
• Nikita Prokopov described how Unicode works – The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!);
  
  
• Get started with StoreKit 2 for iOS by Natascha Fadeeva explains improvements in in-app purchase processing in StoreKit;
  
  
• Mark Struzinski explains new App Intents framework usage with shortcuts – Creating Shortcuts with App Intents;
  
  
• SwiftUI custom buttons are explained in Creating a SwiftUI Toolbar Button with an Image and a Label by Mark Szymczyk;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov dives deep into Observation framework – Mastering Observation framework in Swift;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee thinks on best minimum iOS version to support – Picking your minimum iOS version to support;
  
  
• Javier continues his long series on SwiftUI animations – Advanced SwiftUI Animations – Part 6: CustomAnimation;
  
  
• Great analytic tools comparison by Brian Capps – Comparing the Performance of the Top 6 Analytics SDKs for iOS;
  
  
• Daniel Jalkut shares two articles on Xcode build settings and project configuration – Xcode 15 Duplicate Library Linker Warnings and Conditional Xcode Build Settings.

And this is it for today. We'll get back next week with another pack of great reads.

Fall is here, another nice weekend is here too. Let's go through great articles.

• Point-free pointers advertise their new tool to test Swift Macros – A new tool for testing macros in Swift;
  
  
• Apple added new lifecycle method to UIView, Keith Harrison covers it in UIKit View Lifecycle - viewIsAppearing;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on charts – Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Pie and Donut charts.;
  
  
• The Future of Accessing User Location in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is covering location tracking aspects in modern apps;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee goes through parameter packs in Swift – Value and Type parameter packs in Swift explained with examples;
  
  
• Bruno Rocha goes deep into implementation details of Swift structured concurrency – How async/await works internally in Swift;
  
  
• Craig Hockenberry explores design changes in watchOS – The Timer in watchOS 10.

And that is it. Come back next week for more great articles!

Apple releases Xcode 15 with Swift 5.9 toolchain.

Xcode 15 includes Swift 5.9 and SDKs for iOS 17, iPadOS 17, tvOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS Sonoma.

• Swift macro support brings inline expansions and breakpoint debugging in the source editor
• Git staging helps craft your next commit without leaving your code
• String catalogs streamline localization with a single place to view and edit strings
• Bookmarks help organize your favorite locations and searches in your projects
• Test reports provide summary view, testing insights, and video playback for UI automation results
• OSLog offers a structured and customizable logging mechanism in the debug console
• Documentation Preview editor brings real-time preview for DocC content
• Archive workflows streamline distribution with simplified export and upload to TestFlight and the App Store

Mac App Store – Xcode

Swift 5.9 is now officially released for supported platforms.

This is a major new release that adds an expressive macro system to the language and introduces support for integrating Swift into C++ codebases through bidirectional interoperability.

It also introduces parameter packs, an improved expression evaluator while debugging, enhanced crash handling, Windows platform improvements, and more.

Swift Blog

Mac App Store: Xcode

Release Notes: Xcode 15 Release Notes

Swift Blog: Swift 5.9 Released

Next week we'll see how new iPhone is better than previous one, so, we have weekend to read about development topics.

• Jordan Morgan talks data management in SwiftUI – Vending Non-Mutating Data in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Get started with StoreKit Testing in Xcode by Natascha Fadeeva explains testing approaches for in-app purchases;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese explores new #Preview macro – Exploring the new Preview Macro with SwiftUI and UIKit;
  
  
• And, speaking of macros, Antoine van der Lee goes on #Predicate – Predicate Macro in Swift for filtering and searching;
  
  
• Haptic feedback gets its first-class API support in SwiftUI, Keith Harrison explains those in SwiftUI Sensory Feedback;
  
  
• Marco Eidinger explains how existing API applies for Optic ID in Vision Pro – Develop and test OpticID for Vision Pro;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov starts new topic – thread safety in Swift – Thread safety in Swift with locks;
  
  
• Symbolicating SwiftUI (and any Apple Framework) by Itay Brenner will go through debugging techniques for builds in App Store and TestFlight;
  
  
• Christian Tietze goes into details with arrays and other collections – The Missing Array.appending(contentsOf:);
  
  
• Michael Tsai shares personal experience debugging universal links – Debugging Universal Links;
  
  
• Brian T. Kelley has great series on Objective-C – Objective-C Internals;
  
  
• App Intents for Widgets by Alex Logan goes through new approach configuring widgets.

And that is it for today. See you after the event (and, after our next podcast episode).

It's September already! Time flies... School year is started. And we have something new to learn today.

• Natascha Fadeeva gives useful hints on pagination implementation in SwiftUI – How to implement pagination with SwiftUI's List view;
  
  
• Where did we go wrong with testing? by Wojciech Kulik is a great take on testing your code;
  
  
• Sarun W. has a great explanation on issue some developers see – How to fix "libobjc.A.dylib is being read from process memory" error;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov covers SwiftUI integration of StoreKit 2 – Mastering StoreKit 2. SwiftUI view modifiers.;
  
  
• SwiftSyntax: Parse and Generate Swift source code by Antoine van der Lee explains Swift language parsing and will help you writing efficient macros;
  
  
• Chris Eidhof has two great articles on SwiftUI – How To Visualize The Safe Area and Running Code When Your View Appears;
  
  
• Mark Szymczyk also covers SwiftUI – now on Mac – Showing a SwiftUI sheet from a Mac Menu;
  
  
• Improve the build times of your SPM Packages and your apps by Manu Herrera is a great build optimization guide.

And this is it for this week. We will be back next Friday with another great pack of articles!

School starts in US, and we have another weekend with great reads to spend some time on.

• Natascha Fadeeva shares migration process to Observation framework in SwiftUI – Migrating to the Observation framework in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Notification action buttons with images in iOS by Natalia Panferova explains approach to make rich notifications looking even better in iOS;
  
  
• Keith Harrison provides great guide on SwiftUI integration for MapKit – MapKit for SwiftUI;
  
  
• Mark Szymczyk explains some caveats on displaying local web content in app – Showing Local HTML Content in a WKWebView;
  
  
• Mastering StoreKit 2. ProductView and StoreView. by Majid Jabrayilov is continuation on series dedicated to StoreKit development;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese dives into new TipKit framework for easier app onboarding – Mistakes to Avoid When Implementing Quick Tips with SwiftUI’s TipKit;
  
  
• Xcode Debug Console Tour: Exploring All Options by Antoine van der Lee is in-depth review of Xcode Console debugging options;
  
  
• David Piper shares Augmented Reality’s RoomPlan for iOS: Getting Started – exploration on room scanning framework.

And quick shoutout for next week's online conference – Mobile People Community Day. Join our experts with great talks on different mobile development platforms, including review of WWDC23 announcements.

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.

Thread on Swift Forums now started to discuss future of Swift macros.

Macros could solve code generation issues such as Codable or Equatable implementation without any compiler magic. Proposal includes type-safe approach for different kinds of macros.

Since discussion is just started, it is a good time to keep an eye on directions and provide meaningful feedback.

Swift Forums: A Possible Vision for Macros in Swift

GitHub: A Possible Vision for Macros in Swift

Apple publishes iOS/iPadOS 15.1 beta 3, watchOS 8.1 beta 3, tvOS 15.1 beta 3 and macOS 12 Monterey beta 9. No new Xcode though.

iOS 15.1 beta 3 introduces support for ProRes video recording. Also it introduces toggle to enable/disable auto switching to macro mode.