Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter.

April just ended, and it is always a special month. It marks the beginning of spring, a season that already feels full of new ideas, fresh energy, and growth. But for us, this April had an even deeper meaning: it marked five years of Create with Swift.

Five years ago, in 2021, everything started with a simple idea between Tiago, Giovanni, and Moritz:

Why don’t we write about Swift and iOS development?

There was no big plan, no strategy, and no expectation that it would become something bigger. It started simply from passion, curiosity, and the desire to share knowledge with the community. It was something built in the free time, driven by curiosity, conversations, and the joy of creating something useful for others.

And somehow, from that small beginning, Create with Swift grew into what it is today.

A place for articles and tutorials,
A newsletter for our beloved community,
Joining conferences,
Hosting meetups that bring people together,
Apps, resources, and materials created under its umbrella.

It became a space shaped by many behind it: everyone who has contributed, supported, joined a meetup, opened a newsletter, read an article or simply believed in the idea.

Five years later, we are still here for the same reason we started: to learn, to create, and to share with the community.

The Community

Checking accessibility with SwiftUI Previews

Rob shows how SwiftUI Previews can be used as a lightweight accessibility testing tool, letting you quickly inspect UI variations before testing on a device.

Checking accessibility with SwiftUI Previews

SwiftUI previews offer a fast, practical way to see the output of our view code. But did you know you can also use them to test accessibility-related UI changes including Dynamic Type, localisation, and system accessibility settings, all without needing a physical device.

Mobile A11yMobile A11y

Synchronization in Swift: Actors vs Queues vs Locks

Artem compares actors, queues, and locks in Swift, showing when each is useful for safely synchronizing shared state and what trade-offs they bring.

Synchronization in Swift: Actors vs Queues vs Locks → Livsy Code

Greetings, traveler! Concurrency in modern iOS applications shows up almost everywhere. Networking, database access, image processing, and even parts of UI logic often run in parallel. The system schedules work across multiple threads, and for the most part this happens transparently. The code compiles, the app runs, and everything looks fine until shared state enters

Livsy Code → Learn Swift the smart wayLivsy

Concurrency Step-by-Step: Designing Protocols

Matt walks you through designing Swift protocols under Swift concurrency, explaining how choices like async requirements, nonisolated, and more specific constraints can make protocols safer and easier.

Concurrency Step-by-Step: Designing Protocols

Swift protocols comes with trade-offs at every turn. Understanding them is the key to a successful design.

massicotte.orgMatt Massicotte

Immediate tasks in Swift Concurrency explained

Antoine explains Swift’s new immediate tasks, showing how they work, when they help preserve ordering with actor-isolated state, and why they should be used carefully to avoid blocking or accidentally serializing work.

Immediate tasks in Swift Concurrency explained

Understand the role of immediate tasks in Swift 6.2 and learn when to implement them in your concurrent programming.

SwiftLeeAntoine van der Lee

OKURI

The himekuri is a Japanese tear-off calendar where each page is pulled away at the end of the day, a small, deliberate gesture that marks time passing. There is something grounding about that ritual, the way it turns an abstract number into a physical act.

OKURI, developed by Obed with a meticulous attention to details, takes that idea and builds a daily companion around it. A realistic page-flipping animation sets the tone, and widgets for zodiac signs, constellations, and sunrise and sunset times add a layer of cultural depth that clearly comes from careful research. Events, todos, and a daily luck reading all find their place within the same clean, relaxing interface, making it one of those rare calendar apps that actually invites you to open it.

OKURI Daily Japanese Calendar App - App Store

Download OKURI Daily Japanese Calendar by Obed Willhem on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like OKURI Daily…

App StoreObed Willhem

Here’s to the next five years of Create with Swift.

Thank you for being part of this journey.

We can’t wait to see what you will Create with Swift.

See you next week!