Tag: Monetization

This week is quite short in US. So, good reads come early this time.

• How to migrate to a new schema with SwiftData in iOS by Natascha Fadeeva is a good start for those who want to adopt new persistence framework;
  
  
• Small development perspective on Assistive Access by Jordan Morgan – Checking Out Assistive Access;
  
  
• Optimizing paywall placement: The key to unlocking more app subscribers by Peter Meinertzhagen goes through monetization approach for mobile apps;
  
  
• Keith Harrison explores SwiftUI Split View implementations – SwiftUI SplitView Compact Column Control;
  
  
• Mark Szymczyk covers Core Data code generation issues and how to deal with some of those – Dealing with Core Data Duplicate Class Errors;
  
  
• Scoped animations in SwiftUI by Majid Jabrayilov covers animation techniques in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee goes through testing techniques for modern Swift concurrency – Unit testing async/await Swift code;
  
  
• How to Generate a Useful Xcode Gitignore to Avoid Noise in Git by Jon Reid will help to make better project handling with git;
  
  
• Using Observation framework outside of SwiftUI by Natalia Panferova explains use of new observation macros;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese goes through algorithms in Conquering the Climbing Stairs Challenge with Swift: A Dynamic Programming Approach.

And with this, we're wrapping up. See you next week for another pack of good reads!

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.

It's already February... Well, we still have couple of interesting reads for you.

• Setup a 3D Chessboard With SwiftUI and RealityKit by Mark Lucking – nice intro into AR apps in modern era;
  
  
• Andrew Barba shares guide on Vercel, new solution allowing deployment of server-side Swift apps – Deploy server side Swift applications on Vercel;
  
  
• How to import Objective-C types as optionals or non-optionals into Swift by Natascha Fadeeva reminds developers on how to improve interoperability between Swift and Objective-C;
  
  
• Automatically run Swift code when your framework gets initialized by Marco Eidinger also finds good use of Objective-C in modern projects;
  
  
• John Sundell explains how to use scrollable views in SwiftUI – Observing the content offset of a SwiftUI ScrollView;
  
  
• Kasper Lahti covers styling in SwiftUI – Styling Components in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Xcode Simulator Directories Exploration by Antoine van der Lee is a great guide on iOS Simulator directory structure;
  
  
• Lee Kah Seng provides hints on keeping widgets up to date – How to Fetch and Show Remote Data on a Widget?;
  
  
• Mastering Error Handling in SwiftUI: A Guide to Presenting Errors by Leonardo Maia Pugliese guides developers on ways to respond to errors in SwiftUI application;
  
  
• Did you ever wanted to print incoming JSON in nice formatted way – Jordan Morgan got you covered in Converting Data into a Formatted JSON Swift String;
  
  
• David Smith continues his design notes diary series – Reasons for a Staycation Greycation and DND 21: Byte Compression for Watch Connectivity;
  
  
• Peter Meinertzhagen provides great hints on monetization – What’s the Best Way to Monetize Kids Apps?;
  
  
• We all get and give feedbacks, good article on how to make those better – How to Write Impactful Peer Feedback by Michael Katz.

And, in case you missed it – couple of books are available for free, maybe you'll find something useful there. See you next week!

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!