Comment When Hursh Agrawal published this video six months ago, he made a bold claim. He said they planned to create the Windows version of their Arc Web Browser using Swift, and it would have a native look and…
Lees meerComment Did you catch Felix Krause’s announcement of his new Context SDK last week? It’s a library that helps an app determine the best time to present an upsell, purchasing decision, or any call to action to …
Lees meerComment At the start of last year, the rumours of an Apple AR/VR/MR headset were so prevalent that I opened the first issue of 2022 with a comment about them. I guessed that no announcements were imminent. It’…
Lees meerComment Did you catch this week’s announcement from Google or the follow-up from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) group? It’s the news that Google will start allowing developers to build support…
Lees meerComment I recently found this Copilot X plugin for Xcode from Shx Guo, and it set me thinking about my concerns about open-source licensing in AI-generated code again. Before I get into it, I’ll clarify the pr…
Lees meerComment Congratulations if you received a golden ticket to the show! I’d have loved to be there this year, but again decided not to put my name in the hat for a ticket. I’ll certainly miss meeting old friends,…
Lees meerComment This week’s announcement of WWDC snuck up on me a bit. Is it that time of year already? Yes, it is, and as I am sure you’re well aware by now, you can drop your name in a hat any time before next Tuesd…
Lees meerComment Note: Before starting this week’s intro, I want to emphasise that I am not an impartial observer of today’s news. I would have covered this announcement no matter what the open-source project was, but I…
Lees meerComment It doesn’t all need to look the same. I’m sure I’m not the only person mildly frustrated by apps where it’s instantly obvious that the Android app looks identical to the iOS one at the cost of platform…
Lees meerComment If you told me I had to sit at my desk and push a button 600 times, you’d need to have a very good reason before I’d listen to you. 😂 Is publishing this newsletter a good reason? I have no idea, but I w…
Lees meerComment Sophia Teutschler has been open-sourcing her old apps (Tipulator, CoverSutra, and Groceries) recently, and as I browsed through the repositories, it set me thinking about this Bill Gates quote: “Most p…
Lees meerComment This week, I tried a feature of iOS that I’ve been meaning to try since the iPhone 14 debuted, Emergency SOS via satellite. The feature is impressive, but like fall detection on the Apple Watch, you ho…
Lees meerComment Whenever someone pitches me with an app idea, my first instinct is to ask, “Why can’t this be a website?” I love apps, and there are many reasons to develop them, but many ideas don’t need to be native.…
Lees meerComment I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything that sums up the balance of the pros and cons of life in the iOS App Store better than this Apple Developer News post from last week. It announces more flexibility …
Lees meerComment It has been a while since Apple created the Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG), and while many more workgroups have spawned since then, one aspect of the SSWG remains unique. The package incubation process. …
Lees meerComment If you use SwiftUI and only have time to read one link in this week’s issue, make it this one. It’s rare to find such a comprehensive set of blog posts and associated libraries. Don’t miss it. Happy Fr…
Lees meerComment There’s a bit of everything in this week’s issue! From server-side Swift, through SwiftUI, into Metal, to watchOS, right through into a short but sweet post on icon design and shipping apps. That’s a w…
Lees meerComment I always try to make what I write in this “comment” section interesting enough to be worth your time without being controversial. I made a mistake last week, and what I intended to be a positive spin on…
Lees meerComment Happy new year! 🎊🎉 I hope you all managed to take some time off over the last couple of weeks and are back with vigour for the year ahead. I know many of you are sad about the recent drastic accelerati…
Lees meerComment As the year draws to a close, it’s always nice to look back over everyone’s favourite section of iOS Dev Weekly, the “And finally…” link. No comment to trudge through, no sponsor, just something to make…
Lees meerComment As we head into the festive season, I find myself looking back on 2022. The world still feels like it’s heading in the wrong direction in so many ways, but as day-to-day life starts to more closely rese…
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