Comment I started this newsletter almost 9 years ago primarily to spread the word about all of the wonderful writing that this community was doing. Promoting great content is still the main reason I spend so ma…
Lees meerComment Apple posted a couple of reminders this week about the upcoming deadlines for complying with the App Store review guideline changes announced at WWDC. Apps in the Kids category and apps built with web …
Lees meerComment Last week, I opened with a comment that reiterated that everything was fine if you hadn’t implemented any SwiftUI yet. I received several emails on the subject after the newsletter went out that suggest…
Lees meerComment When Apple announced SwiftUI last year, it was instantly apparent that adopting it in 2019 was going to be... challenging. ? It's an entirely new way to write apps, it's iOS 13 only, and the less said a…
Lees meerComment Happy new year, everyone! ? I hope you all had a fantastic break and are raring to go for 2020! I know I have big plans for this year, and I can't wait to get started with them! ? Before I launch into …
Lees meerComment Happy Holidays! ? I hope you're all enjoying time with friends and family, getting some much-needed rest, enjoying some side-project time, or maybe a bit of all three! You may remember the holiday issu…
Lees meerComment I've been peeking at the provisional results from the iOS Developer Community Survey, and one set of really fascinating answers are in the Swift on the server section. I won't spill the beans on what th…
Lees meerComment App Store review guidelines are strict when it comes to pricing, especially around subscriptions. If you’re anything like me, you’ll think that’s a good thing too! If this platform is going to be one wh…
Lees meerComment Last week I asked for your feedback on my draft list of questions for the iOS Developer Community Survey. Honestly, you blew me away by starting more than 300 comment threads and leaving almost 450 repl…
Lees meerComment I tweeted yesterday about wanting to do a comprehensive survey of iOS developers, but I didn’t do a very good job of explaining myself in the tweet. So I’ll try again… I want to do a really comprehens…
Lees meerComment I don't think anyone was expecting it, but this week has brought us a couple of new announcements from Apple. First, the news that the WWDC app that we know and love has been rebranded as the Apple Dev…
Lees meerComment Let me start this week by saying thank you to everyone who took the time to answer last week's survey on keeping up with iOS development. At the time of writing it's had 2,280 responses which is amazing…
Lees meerComment I've been thinking a lot recently about this newsletter, and all of the other ways that people keep up to date with iOS development. I have a few new ideas on the subject myself, but before I do anythin…
Lees meerComment Blog posts can be great at presenting bite-sized chunks of knowledge, but it's hard to learn a technology from start to finish with random individual posts. So, with that in mind, I'd like to start this…
Lees meerComment I'm sure you've all seen the new NSHipster site that launched this week, No overview available. It's a survey of the state of the Apple framework documentation. Specifically, it shows stats on the numbe…
Lees meerComment We're now one month into the general availability of iOS 13, and I must admit that I was expecting the adoption rate to be slower this year. The news of bugs and instability certainly broke through into…
Lees meerComment I'd like to start this week with a quick update on the Swift PM Library. ? It's still early days in terms of calling it a success, but I've been happy to see a very positive reaction from almost everyon…
Lees meerComment Have you ever contributed to an open source project? There's no shame if you haven't, but October is always a good month to get started as it's home to Hacktoberfest! I was reminded that this was happen…
Lees meerComment I didn't think I'd be writing about an alternative App Store this week, let alone one that is open source, operates via a server app installed on your Mac, and doesn't require any kind of jailbreak at a…
Lees meerComment We've got new phones in our hands, watches on our wrists, and a second release of the Xcode 11 GM seed on our hard drives that fixes the asset catalog bug. Does September get any better than this? Actu…
Lees meerComment After so much effort has been ploughed into ARKit over the last few years, it has felt like the worst kept secret ever that Apple are working on some kind of AR specific hardware. Probably some kind of …
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