Weekly Newsletter Issue 16
Weekly newsletter summing up our publications and showcasing app developers and their amazing creations.
Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter.
Apple has announced this year's Design Awards winners! We would like to congratulate all finalists and winners for demonstrating great accomplishments from the developer community.
WWDC 2024 is just a few days away, and we are excited to see what this year's developer conference will bring and how it will empower developers to create innovative and delightful apps.
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Published this week
This week we have covered App Intents, visionOS and SwiftUI.
Using App Intents in a SwiftUI app
In this tutorial, Tiago and Matteo show how to create an App Intent with a custom data type as a parameter and how to make it available for users in multiple places inside the system such as Siri, Spotlight, and Shortcuts.
Tiago Gomes Pereira
Creating custom buttons and hover effects in visionOS
Giovanni and Emanuele dive deeper into the indirect tap gesture introduced with the Vision Pro, demonstrating how to use hover effects and visual feedback when users look at a control and pinch their fingers together to perform a tap.
Emanuele Agosta
Formatting data as text in a Text view in SwiftUI
Tiago and Matteo describe how to format different types of data with different formatters and the Text view in SwiftUI.
Tiago Gomes Pereira
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From the community
Here are our highlights of articles and resources created by the app developer community.
Vertical Circular Carousel
In this step by step tutorial Kavsoft show how to create a vertical circular carousel using ScrollViews and the Visual Effect API.
Bad practice: not using a ButtonStyle
Vincent explains the importance of using ButtonStyle to customize button appearances for code reusability and readability.
Vincent Pradeilles
Swift Package Manager framework creation in Xcode
Antoine shows how to create a Swift Package using either the terminal with SPM or directly with Xcode.
Antoine van der LeeIndie App of the Week
Squircle
Having an app icon asset with rounded corners can be necessary sometimes, such as for keynotes or branding assets. Squircle by Miká is a focused macOS app designed to address this exact need: generating app icon images with rounded corners and shadows from original squared image.
It is a simple and straightforward app with a great attention to detail. For example, the dock icon updates to match the app icon you currently drag into the app.
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