Tag: Optimization

It's winter here in Bay Area today (it even snows somewhere here), so let's grab some warm beverage and get going.

• Let's start with some old articles on C++ interoperability – How to create a Swift Package from a C++ library and Getting started with Swift-C++ interop by Konstantin Semianov;
  
  
• And couple articles on how to make use of layout system in SwiftUI by the same author – Building a wrapping HStack with the SwiftUI Layout protocol and Building a hexagonal grid with the SwiftUI Layout protocol;
  
  
• Ricky Mondello shares security considerations on Twitter's 2FA changes – Twitter’s Decision to Limit SMS 2FA is Dangerous;
  
  
• Show chart annotations on hover in Swift Charts by Natalia Panferova covers adding interactions to charts;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues his series on charts – Mastering charts in SwiftUI. Legends.;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese provides guide on view mask usage in SwiftUI – Creating Animations with SwiftUI’s Mask View Modifier;
  
  
• The Composable Architecture best practices by Krzysztof Zabłocki – The Composable Architecture - Best Practices;
  
  
• Arbitrary SwiftUI Linear Gradient Rotation by David Smith goes through gradients in SwiftUI;
  
  
• And another take by him on how to use randomness in the apps – Finding Beauty in Randomness and Nature;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan covers important aspects of accessibility – Building For Voice Control;
  
  
• Speeding Up Scanner in Swift by Michael Tsai collects information on text parsing improvements in Swift;
  
  
• And couple of articles by Jesse Squires – How to find and fix premature view controller loading on iOS and Xcode tip: sharing breakpoints across projects.

Let's finish with interesting video on design process by David Smith.

And that is it for today. See you next week!

As you could see, there was a delay with good reads for Apple developers. Let's recap most of the good articles for these weeks. This would be long list of reads for the following week, not a weekend.

Let's dive in.

Multiple clones of now popular Wordle game were submitted to App Store, including those with $30 yearly subscription. None of these apps are related to original web game.

After the social network backlash Apple removed all these game clones from App Store.

However, this is not the only scam app on App Store. Another report shows that Apple even promoted scam app with purchased reviews.

So, the problem persists. On the other hand, sometimes unfair and unethical apps are still removed from App Store.

Reference:

• App Store Scam of the Week: ‘AmpMe’
• PSA: Wordle clone with annual subscription is the latest rip-off to hit the App Store [U: Removed]
• Clones of Popular 'Wordle' Game Flooding App Store, Including One Charging $30 Per Year [Updated]
• 'Wordle' clones further illustrate the curation problem in the App Store
• ★ The App Store Is (Well, Was) Lousy With Blatant Wordle Rip-Offs, but One of Them Takes the Cake
• Wordle Clones

Another issue of good reads for weekend. We have couple of interesting things today.

• Starting with two articles on Swift on AWS Lambda by Fabian Fett – Getting started with Swift on AWS Lambda and Create your first HTTP endpoint with Swift on AWS Lambda;
  
  
• Good take on person name handling in Swift – Using Swift to Parse Person Name with iOS 15 APIs by Leonardo Maia Pugliese;
  
  
• Another use for async functions Lightweight dependency injection and unit testing using async functions by John Sundell;
  
  
• Majid Jabrayilov continues deep dive into SwiftUI with Structural identity in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Understanding Fast-Math by Matej Bukovinski covers optimization techniques for Swift apps;
  
  
• Guilherme Rambo covers CloudKit usage in Using CloudKit for content hosting and feature flags;
  
  
• Two small but interesting articles by Sarunw – What is a variant in SF Symbols and What is image rendering mode in iOS;
  
  
• SwiftUI Localization Tutorial for iOS: Getting Started by Andy Pereira covers important topic of localization in SwiftUI apps.

And that's it, have a nice weekend!