Happy Thursday! They say all things come to an end. And while this may or may not be the end, this will be the last edition of the iOS Goodies newsletter, at least until the end of this year. I’m sure you’re wondering why that is, and I’ll try to explain in the following lines. To do a good job curating the content for this newsletter, I need to spend...

Happy Thursday! Around this time, every year, Apple announces that the App Store Connect goes on holiday around Christmas. Not this year, though. For the first time, as far as I know, App Store Connect submissions will be accepted through the holidays. Be aware thought, that they anticipate a high volume of submissions and reviews may take longer to...

Happy Thursday! Apple’s Tech Talks have been going on for a while now, they’ve already updated the schedule. I really like the way they are listening to feedback, adding more sessions and increasing their capacity. The most attended sessions will be run again, and the sign up has been split in two, with half the spots released once and half in a second...

Happy Thursday! Xcode 13.2 just got its first beta yesterday, and in it, the new concurrency model in Swift has been ported all the way back to iOS 13. iOS 13 is the first version that supports SwiftUI and Combine, so just imagine how much more fun writing iOS apps just became. This is still in its first beta, and as Doug Gregor mentions, it’s an enormously...

Happy Thursday! Apple announced Tech Talks 2021, with live sessions and office hours for developers, between 25 October - 17 December. And every two weeks, a Tech Talks Digest will be published with the details of the latest developer events. macOS Monterey now has a release date: 25 October. That’s next week. I mentioned this in issue 404 as well...

Happy Thursday! This week my attention was caught by this Twitter thread from Jeff Verkoeyen, the staff engineering lead at Google Design for Apple platforms. Jeff announces that they’re slowly moving away from the material design for Google products on iOS to use the native iOS components that UIKit and SwiftUI provide. The whole thread is very interesting,...