Articles, podcasts and news about Swift development, by John Sundell.
On this 2022 season premiere, JP Simard returns to the show to discuss what’s next for Swift in 2022, and what kinds of improvements and new features that might be coming to the language during the year.
Starting in Xcode 13.2, Swift’s new suite of concurrency features are now backward compatible all the way back to iOS 13, macOS Catalina, watchOS 6, and tvOS 13.
Christian Selig returns to the show to talk about how he used the new Safari extension system on iOS to build Amplosion and Achoo, the pros and cons of open source, and how developers can utilize other iOS 15 and iPhone hardware features.
Antoine van der Lee, creator of SwiftLee, joins John to discuss the new language features that are being introduced as part of Swift 5.5 — from the brand new concurrency system, to convenience features and various improvements.
A roundup of some of the key ways in which Swift 5.3 enhances the overall experience of building views using SwiftUI.
An overview of the key new UICollectionView APIs introduced in iOS 13 and 14, such as compositional layouts, diffable data sources, and cell registrations.
JP Simard returns to the show to discuss Swift 5.3’s main new features and improvements, and what those changes might tell us about the current state of Swift and its evolution process.
A summary of all Swift by Sundell content published during February 2020.
Let’s explore two of Swift 5.2’s new features, that both give the language some really interesting capabilities from a functional programming perspective.
Swift 5.1 has now been officially released, and despite being a minor release, it contains a substantial number of changes and improvements. This week, let’s take a look at five of those features, and what kind of situations they could be useful in.
Ish ShaBazz joins John to talk about indie app development, planning and productivity, deciding which system features to adopt and what trends to follow, what’s new in Xcode 11 and Swift 5.1, and much more.
Benedikt Terhechte and Bas Broek join John to dive into iOS 13 and iPadOS, as well as Swift 5.1 — how it powers SwiftUI, and if it would be possible to backport parts of SwiftUI to earlier iOS versions. Also, text editors, new iPhone and iPad UI conventions, and more.
SwiftUI brings a new, declarative way to build UIs for Apple’s platforms, and also pushes the Swift language itself to new limits — by making heavy use of a set of key new syntax features, that are being introduced as part of Swift 5.1, in order to provide a very DSL-like API. This week, let’s take a first look at those features and how they work.
JP Simard and Jesse Squires, the hosts of Swift Unwrapped, join John for this year's Holiday Special. Topics include ways that Swift has evolved during the year, what's coming up in Swift 5, maintaining open source projects, and continuing the tradition of sending wishes to Xcode Santa.
Ben Scheirman, creator of NSScreencast, joins John for a special WWDC episode of the show — to talk about the cool new things that Apple announced at the conference. iOS 12's focus on performance, UIKit apps on the Mac, what's new in Xcode and Swift 4.2, and much more.
Swift 4 introduces a new, refined string API that is easier to use, more powerful, and gives the programmer more control in terms of memory management. This week, let’s take a look at how it is to work with strings in Swift 4, and how we can take advantage of the new, improved API in various situations.