iOS Newsletter
Hi folks!
This week is buzzing with AI energy. Packages like AnyLanguageModel make it easy to build AI-powered iOS apps without locking into one company’s API. And then there’s the OpenAI + Shortcuts team deal — because AI automation is here.
But here’s what’s real: Henning Pauly recently demonstrated that AI can now create music in minutes that took artists days to make. Same quality. Way faster. The creative game is shifting. You can jump in, use these tools to move faster and iterate more, or keep doing things the old way. Either way, it’s your call.
Meanwhile, exciting news for the cross-platform dev community: Apple just greenlit the Swift SDK for Android — and the KMM fans are celebrating, aren’t they 😁. It’s a big moment for folks who’ve been betting on shared code across iOS and Android.
Apple’s ecosystem continues evolving too, with streamlined App Store submission tools and refined developer workflows. The community keeps pushing forward with practical security patterns, concurrency mastery, and thoughtful explorations of code quality.
Whether you’re building responsive UIs, writing safer code, improving performance, or hardening your security posture, this issue covers the tools and techniques shaping modern iOS development.
SwiftUI
ScrollView snapping in SwiftUI
Want your scrolling to snap perfectly to pages or specific views? Natalia Panferova explores SwiftUI’s scrollTargetBehavior and scrollTargetLayout APIs for precise control over scroll snapping behavior.
Swift
Workaround: how to silence individual deprecation warnings in Swift
Treating all warnings as errors but stuck with deprecated APIs? Jesse Squires reveals a clever protocol-based workaround to silence individual deprecation warnings without compromising code safety.
Concurrency
Concurrency Step-by-Step: Conforming to Protocols
Struggling with protocol conformance across actor isolation boundaries? Matt Massicotte breaks down isolated conformances and protocol isolation mismatches in Swift 6.2.
Framework
Get Paid While You Sleep 🤑 😴
Ready to monetize your app without breaking a sweat? Tiago Henriques demonstrates how to implement StoreKit 2 and create a tip jar UI in SwiftUI.
Development
Treat Your Data Like a Backstage Pass: iOS Security Best Practices
How do you build an iOS app that doesn’t crumble when someone jailbreaks their phone or spoofs their location? Wesley Matlock shares production-tested security patterns that work — from jailbreak detection to certificate pinning.
Cross-Platform vs AI: The Changing Economics of Mobile Development
Will AI tip the scales back to native development? Artem Mirzabekian examines how AI-assisted coding is reshaping the economics of cross-platform frameworks.
Zettelkasten for Programmers: Pick a Title. It’s Okay to Change Later
Struggling with perfect titles in your Zettelkasten? Christian Tietze explains why programmers should embrace flexibility over premature abstraction in note-taking.
Tools
Build performance analysis for speeding up Xcode builds
Frustrated with slow Xcode builds dragging down productivity? Antoine van der Lee shows how to analyze build performance and reclaim precious development time.