Apple starts selling HomePod (2nd generation) and HomePod mini in Denmark.
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Weekend good reads for Apple developers, issue #40
Some places will have longer weekend this time, so let's pack it with great reads!
- Leonardo Maia Pugliese publishes two articles – How to update or refresh Widget and Siri Intent programmatically in Swift for WatchOS? and comprehensive guide on architectural pattern – Memento Pattern with SwiftUI;
- Building widgets for iOS applications with WidgetKit and SwiftUI by Natascha Fadeeva covers widget development which would help your app make it to Lock Screen on iOS 16;
- Lock screen widgets in SwiftUI by Majid Jabrayilov continues Lock Screen widgets topic with more details;
- Great article by Antoine van der Lee on SwiftUI accessibility integrations – VoiceOver navigation improvement tips for SwiftUI apps;
- And if you're quite new to SwiftUI – SwiftUI View Modifiers Tutorial for iOS by Danijela Vrzan explores view modifiers;
- SwiftUI AnyLayout - smooth transitions between layout types by Sarun W. provides great overview of new addition to SwiftUI layout;
- Jordan Morgan touches important aspect of SwiftUI – testability – in Testing SwiftUI Bindings in Xcode Previews;
- And another great article by Leonardo Maia Pugliese – New MapKit Configurations with SwiftUI with MapKit integration improvements in upcoming releases.
That is all for this weekend! Enjoy the extra day, if applicable :)
Several Siri intents are getting removed in iOS 15
Apple is removing some of intents used to add Siri support to the application in iOS 15. Apple states that these Intents had very low adoption.
When iOS 15 is released if user asks Siri to perform such action Siri will respond that this is not possible. Also, when building on iOS 15 SDK usage of these intents will trigger compilation warning.