It's December already. And we're getting our last installments of good reads in this year.

• Francesco Perchiazzi explores spatial computing development patterns in Embracing Extended Reality: visionOS challenges;
  
  
• Create an AsyncStream from withObservationTracking() function by Natalia Panferova is about merging new observation framework with structured concurrency;
  
  
• Natascha Fadeeva continues his series on SwiftData – How to store images in SwiftData;
  
  
• Mastering MapKit in SwiftUI. Basics is Majid Jabrayilov another good take on using maps in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee gives overview of Swift language development process – Swift Evolution: Reading and learning from proposals;
  
  
• Matteo Altobello explores SwiftUI app lifecycle in Accessing the app life cycle within a SwiftUI app;
  
  
• Create Your Own Step Counter SwiftUI App in 5 Minutes by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is a great guide on how to build full app on SwiftUI;
  
  
• And another take by Matteo Altobello on animations in RealityKit – Play an animation in RealityKit.

And this is it for today. Next week we'll have more great articles to read.

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.

Apple updates Maps in six European countries. Updates include detailed road coverage, 3D models for buildings and landmarks, Look Around.

Map updates are also available for developers via MapKit. No additional changes are required, updates are applied to apps automatically.

References:

• Apple Maps Redesign Expands to Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia
• New Apple Maps features come to Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia

Apple now no longer allows downgrade from iOS 16.3. This comes together with the news that previous iOS releases were subject to exploit allowing to get user's location if that permission was not given to the application.

Apple did not disclose details of this exploit.

Maps

Available for: iPhone 8 and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 5th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later

Impact: An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2023-23503: an anonymous researcher

About the security content of iOS 16.3 and iPadOS 16.3

Apple Support: About the security content of iOS 16.3 and iPadOS 16.3

References:

• Apple Stops Signing iOS 16.2 Following iOS 16.3 Launch, Downgrading No Longer Possible
• Was a Popular Brazilian Food Delivery App Bypassing Apple’s Location Privacy Settings on iOS?
• Apple Maps privacy bug may have allowed apps to collect location data without permission
• Was this Brazilian major app bypassing Apple's location privacy on iOS?
• Bypassing iOS 16.2 Location Privacy

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6bWSsMO51M

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!

Today Apple announced availability of Apple Business Connect.

With Business Connect, businesses around the world can now directly manage their information in the interactive Apple Maps place card, including adding and updating photos and logos; inviting customers to take actions like ordering food or making a reservation directly from Maps; and presenting customers with special promotions.

Apple Newsroom

New feature will allow also to provide more info and relevant actions which could be performed at specific place, allowing better mobile app or website promotions.

Showcases, a new feature in the place card, helps businesses present customers with offers and incentives, like seasonal menu items, product discounts, and more. Businesses can easily update the Showcase section of their place card through Business Connect. Showcases are available to businesses in the US beginning today, and will be available to businesses globally in coming months. 

Businesses can also provide customers with useful information by highlighting actions for them to take directly from the Maps place card, like ordering groceries via Instacart, making a hotel reservation through Booking.com, or reserving a spot for dinner with OpenTable, and more, with just a tap.

Apple Newsroom

Apple Business Connect

Apple Newsroom: Introducing Apple Business Connect

References:

• Apple Business Connect launches as free tool to help organize key information across services
• Apple Launches a New Program Allowing Business Owners to Manage Their Place Cards in Maps and Other Apps

Now we have Maps Compose, which enables you to use the Maps SDK for Android alongside Jetpack Compose.

more: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/compose-maps-sdk-android-now-available