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.

July is approaching (and we hope to see news on Developer Labs and Developer Kits for Apple Vision Pro), but so far, here is a fresh list of great articles to read over the weekend.

• Natascha Fadeeva goes through String Catalog feature in Xcode 15 – How to use String Catalogs for localization in Swift;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan goes one SwiftUI modifier at the time – Modifier Monday: .containerRelativeFrame(_ axes:);
  
  
• Generate RESTful APIs with Swift in 2023 by Marco Eidinger is covering OpenAPI code generation package;
  
  
• Keith Harrison continues his series of WWDC23 lab notes with Core Data – WWDC23 Core Data Lab Notes;
  
  
• Mastering ScrollView in SwiftUI. Scroll Position by Majid Jabrayilov covers new features in scroll views;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee explains usage of #Preview macro – #Preview SwiftUI Views using Macros;
  
  
• Daniel Jalkut reviews view clipping behavior changes in macOS Sonoma – View Clipping Changes in macOS 14 Sonoma;
  
  
• The One Swift 5.9 Feature to Start Using Now by Leonardo Maia Pugliese goes through couple of new Swift features for everybody to try;
  
  
• Scott Grosch explores new tool to send push notifications – Push Notifications Console: Apple’s Game-Changing New Tool ;
  
  
• For those using ETTrace Itay Brenner & Noah Martin cover migration process from CocoaPods to SwiftPM – Moving ETTrace from CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager;
  
  
• Sarun W. covers symbol animations – Built-in symbol animations in UIKit controls.

And that is it for this weekend. Have some rest, stay hydrated (especially, if you're in the areas with heat waves) and come back for next portion of great reads next week!

We're almost there for WWDC23. Just a little bit over a week. And we've got good collection of articles for this long weekend.

• Amazing guide on push notifications by Natascha Fadeeva – Developer guide on push notifications for iOS;
  
  
• Natalia Panferova also explains to test remote push notifications with Simulator – Testing remote push notifications on iOS simulator in Xcode 14;
  
  
• And one more her article is about Layout protocol in SwiftUI – Using Layout protocol to align explicitly positioned views in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Back deploy Swift Function by Sarun W. explains how swift functions could be back deployed to previous iOS versions;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee shares his hints on how to get featured on App Store – 10 Tips to Get Your App Featured on the App Store;
  
  
• Handling WebP Images When Using PHPickerViewController by Lee Kah Seng might be useful for those who work with different image formats;
  
  
• Stefan Kieleithner provides a guide on making stylable UI components in UIKit – Customizable UI Components on iOS Using UIKit;
  
  
• Swift Concurrency Continuations: Getting Started by Alessandro Di Nepi gives great advises on mixing legacy and new concurrency models in Swift;
  
  
• Jacob Eiting gives an overview of effective communications – How we communicate at RevenueCat.

And while you're still here, we'd like to invite you to our pre-WWDC Apple Treats episode – join us live on May 30 at 9:00am PDT. See you there! :)

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

WebKit team publishes guide on push notification usage to control app icon badges using Badging API.

Guides covers badge control, notification system prompt, and other technical details.

W3C: Badging API

WebKit Blog: Badging for Home Screen Web Apps

Summer closer and closer here in California. Days become longer, so there is slightly more time to spend reading interesting articles.

• Michal Tynior shares his story of accommodating notch on MacBook – Notch Player;
  
  
• Cheatsheet for the JSON payload of an iOS push notification by Natascha Fadeeva provides all important details on push notification contents;
  
  
• Daniel Jalkut explains another interesting use of property wrappers in UIKit and AppKit – Magic Loading Property Wrappers;
  
  
• ImageRenderer in SwiftUI by Majid Jabrayilov guides you through view rendering process in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Simple, yet very effective trick by Marco Eidinger – Efficient Data Transfer in iOS Apps: Exploring HTTP Compression;
  
  
• Deeplink URL handling in SwiftUI by Antoine van der Lee explains SwiftUI's way of dealing with deeplinks;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese covers approach on dealing with application icon's badge in SwiftUI – How to Programmatically Add App Icon Badge in SwiftUI?;
  
  
• On Apple’s Guidance for StateObject Initialization by Jordan Morgan explores @StateObject property wrapper initialization details;
  
  
• And small recap of conditional compilation options in Swift 5.8 – Conditional compilation for Attributes in Swift 5.8.

This is it for today. Have a great weekend and come back next week for new pack of awesome reads!

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. :)

Apple issued updated certificates for Apple Push Notification service (APNs) and Developer ID intermediate certificate.

Download certificates: Apple PKI

Apple Developer: Updated Apple Developer certificates now available

Apple regularly updates root certificates for its services. Now updated certificates are issued for Developer ID and Push Notification service.

Starting January 27, 2022, intermediate certificate updates will be available for the Apple Push Notification service (APNs) and Developer ID.

Apple Developer

No specific actions are required. Existing certificates will work until expiration or revocation.

Apple Developer: Upcoming Apple Developer certificate updates

Apple Developer Support:

• Developer ID Intermediate Certificate Updates
• Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Intermediate Certificate Expiration