Comment The question of Apple not caring enough about the Mac and macOS has been a frequent topic of conversation for years now, ever since the iPhone started dominating the company’s financials. They’ve been …
Lees meerComment The Thursday evening before WWDC is usually a hectic one for me. I'm generally trying to get this newsletter finished while throwing clothes into a suitcase so that I can board a 12-hour flight to Calif…
Lees meerComment Don't you love the feeling of launching a new project? I know I do, and it makes me so happy to say that today is one of those days! Say hello to the Swift Package Index. 🚀 You may remember back to Au…
Lees meerComment It’d be easy for me to write today’s iOS Dev Weekly as a completely normal issue. I try to keep this newsletter focused on what you signed up for, a round-up of this week’s iOS development links. But I …
Lees meerComment I've been reflecting on SwiftUI this week now that it's been public for almost a year. 🎂 I've also been thinking about what might be on the cards in three weeks time, at this year's WWDC. 🎉 So, what's …
Lees meerComment Last week's "one question" Swift Package Manager survey wasn't on the same scale as the full community survey, but it was a nice update on how people feel about the SPM. As promised, here are the raw re…
Lees meerComment The least surprising announcement at this year's WWDC will be¹ that Xcode 12 will include Swift 5.3. 🤯 So to warm-up for next month's flood of news, why not read Tibor Bödecs' guide to what’s new in Swi…
Lees meerComment Unless you've been living under a rock this week, you'll know that Apple released a few more details of this year's WWDC. We still don't know specifics, but the press release does mention that "lab sche…
Lees meerComment I didn’t comment on the iOS 14 leaks of the last few weeks. If you’ve been reading for a while, you’ll know rumours aren’t my thing. However, as I was reading Bryce Pauken’s piece on the private API th…
Lees meerComment I’ve been poking around the results from the iOS Developer Community Survey again this week, specifically looking at the questions relating to Swift on the server. I ended up putting together a quick pi…
Lees meerComment The remainder of this year is all about online events that would previously have been in-person. ? The big one is WWDC, and speculation is rife on what exactly an online dub dub might look like. We ofte…
Lees meerComment I received a few emails after my comments last week on the Amazon App Store deal. Mainly, I heard that people didn't think that the experimentation I was hoping for was as critical as Apple simply reduc…
Lees meerComment In the perennial battle between Apple and companies trying to re-sell digital products in the App Store (Netflix, Amazon Video, Spotify, Audible, etc…) the 30% cut makes their business virtually impossi…
Lees meerComment I said last week that if I didn’t have anything to say on the Coronavirus situation, that I’d keep quiet. That lasted exactly one week as I can’t avoid talking about this report from AppFigures. You’ll…
Lees meerComment Who was expecting a new way of having a mouse cursor interact with UI elements this week? I know I wasn't, but here we are with something brand new and unique for iPadOS. If you don't know what I'm ref…
Lees meerComment I read a very entertaining post yesterday from Dan Gauthier on imposter syndrome. If you didn't see it mentioned on Twitter, you should read it. Maybe you're just starting out learning Swift, or perhap…
Lees meerComment In the light of so many tech conferences being postponed, cancelled, or going virtual there’s plenty of speculation about this year's WWDC, especially as we get close to the date Apple might typically a…
Lees meerComment A small but important note to start this week. I'm having some problems with Cloudflare giving HTTP 403 errors on the iOS Dev Weekly homepage. It shouldn't affect the links in the newsletter, but if for…
Lees meerComment I've wanted to run a really thorough survey of iOS developer opinion for a long time. Some people were surprised by what I considered comprehensive. ? Despite that, I decided to go ahead with it anyway…
Lees meerComment I'd like to start this week's newsletter with a little apology. I promised that I'd publish the results of the iOS Developer Community Survey at the end of January, and here we are two weeks into Februa…
Lees meerComment I stopped mentioning every release of Xcode here a long time ago, but I'll make an exception for the beta of 11.4 that Apple released this week. It's significant. Swift 5.2 (including the diagnostic ar…
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