Articles, podcasts and news about Swift development, by John Sundell.
Simon Støvring returns to the show to talk about how he built his new text editor Runestone, how to effectively manage an app’s settings, performance tuning, and implementing an app’s core logic as a stand-alone framework.
Marcin Krzyzanowski returns to the show to talk about building editors for Swift code, backend-driven user interfaces, and more. Also, the challenges of working with text-based data, the pros and cons of composition, and managing hobby projects.
Let’s take a look at one possible venue for learning and exploring SwiftUI without having to necessarily deploy it directly into production — by building internal tools and various prototypes.
Let’s take a look at a few key APIs and techniques that can be really useful when building custom developer tools, scripts, or other kinds of automation, in Swift.
Let’s take a look at a number of techniques, patterns, and ways of structuring UI code that can help us get the very most out of Xcode’s SwiftUI-powered preview system.
On this special Stacktrace cross-over episode of the show, Gui Rambo joins John to talk about building custom developer tools, how open Apple’s tooling really is, writing “Swifty” code versus shipping great user experiences, and much more.
A look behind the scenes of Swift by Sundell, as well as a preview and live demo of my suite of static site generation tools.
Starting with Xcode 11, the Swift Package Manager is becoming a true first class citizen within Apple’s suite of developer tools. Let’s take a look at how it can be used to manage a project’s various dependencies.
Automation enthusiast and Scriptable developer Simon Støvring joins John to discuss automation, scripting, and building tools. Also, app modularity, frameworks, and what it would take to bring automation on Apple’s platforms to the next level.
Designed to be an easy way to quickly prototype Swift code, to learn the language, or to explore the standard library and Apple’s SDKs — Swift playgrounds have become an integral part of many developers’ daily workflows. This week, let’s take a look at some tips and tricks that can make working with Swift playgrounds, both in Xcode and on the iPad, much more productive.
Nick Lockwood, Core Animation veteran and creator of tools like SwiftFormat, joins John to talk about animations, layout, building parsers & compilers in Swift, declarative UI patterns and much more.
John heads to the Swift & Fika conference in Stockholm and, equipped with his portable recorder, speaks to four special guests about topics ranging from security to rendering performance to static analysis.
Felix Krause, creator of fastlane, joins John to talk about building developer tools, scaling open source projects, automation, code signing, how fastlane came to be, and how to take the perfect Twitter profile picture.
Niels van Hoorn of Framer joins John to talk about prototyping, experimentation and learning new technologies. When and how to use prototypes, trying out new frameworks and techniques, the value of building your own tools and much more.
Erica Sadun joins John to talk about Swift Evolution and its proposal process, civility in the community, the state of Apple's developer tools, protocol extensions, Swift Foundation vs Objective-C Foundation and much more.
Orta Therox from Artsy joins John to talk about building developer tools, working on and maintaining open source projects, React Native, balancing coding time with personal time and much more.
Mike Ash joins John to talk about reference counting, learning new APIs, Swift tooling vs new language features, what if Swift would've been Objective-C 3.0, and much more.
This week, let’s take a look at how we can use Continuous Integration (or CI) to establish a smooth and nice workflow for our team when working on a Swift project.
An introduction to Swift scripting, and why I think Swift is an awesome language for scripting.
In my first ever tutorial, I'll provide a step-by-step guide for building a command line tool using the Swift Package Manager, sharing some learnings from when I built Marathon.