Weekly Newsletter Issue 109
Weekly newsletter summing up our publications and showcasing app developers and their amazing creations.
Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter.
WWDC26 is getting close, and the Apple developer community is already starting to look toward Cupertino.
As every year, Flighty is bringing back its community map so you can add your flights, see who’s flying in from around the world, and maybe even spot a few familiar faces on your route!
Beer with Swift - WWDC26 Special Edition
Will you be at the big Apple event? Do you have plans after the conference? How about grabbing a beer with fellow developers?
Don’t miss the chance to keep the excitement going beyond the mothership, join us around Cupertino on the 9th of June for a special WWDC26 edition of our Create Beer with Swift! This is your chance to connect with fellow Swift enthusiasts, discuss Apple's latest innovations, and explore all the exciting WWDC announcements while sipping beers in good company and sharing our passion for Apple development. The beer is on us.
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From
The Community
Working with the Keychain in iOS
Natascha demonstrates how to securely store sensitive data in iOS using Apple’s Keychain Services API, walking through how keychain queries work and how to save, read, update, and delete items.
Swift Task Lifecycle Management - Structured vs Unstructured Concurrency
Sagar explains Swift task lifecycle management by comparing structured and unstructured concurrency, showing how choices like async let, TaskGroup, SwiftUI’s .task, Task, and Task.detached affect cancellation, errors, memory, and UI.
Sagar Unagar
A floating card using safeAreaBar
Shaun shows how to build a reusable floating bottom card in SwiftUI using safeAreaBar on iOS 26, with an iOS 18 fallback that combines safeAreaInset, material, and a gradient fade to keep scrolling content readable behind it.
Indie App of the Week
Burnit
Creating a playlist isn't just about queuing up songs you like, it's about setting a mood. That's something we understood instinctively back when we were labelling CDs and sketching covers for mixtapes.
Burn it, developed by Remi, brings that ritual back. The app lets you design a custom cover for your playlists using a CD as the canvas: choose from styles you've used before, add text, and export the result as an image ready to drop into any streaming service. The concept is sharp, the interface is clean and intuitive, and the whole thing captures the physicality of a disc in a way that feels genuinely satisfying.
Remi Santos
And whether you’re boarding a flight to Cupertino or following along from home, WWDC week is always bigger than the keynote itself. Apple’s community events page is the place to check for community meetups, special events, and watch parties happening around the world, so there’s a good chance something is happening near you too.
Because in the end, WWDC is not just about what Apple announces, it’s about where the developer community gathers to watch, learn, argue about APIs, and get excited together.
We can’t wait to see what you will Create with Swift.
See you next week!
