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This year, while Apple celebrates 50 years of “thinking different,” the Apple Developer Academy in Naples, Italy is celebrating its 10 years of future-building. Born in 2016 from the collaboration between Apple and the University of Naples Federico II, the Academy has turned San Giovanni a Teduccio into a meaningful place in the Apple developer ecosystem: a campus where students from all over the world learn not only to code, but to design, collaborate, solve real problems, and imagine what comes next.

That context made Tim Cook’s words at WWDC26 feel even more powerful: “We’re also investing in the next generation through 20 Apple Developer Academies around the world, which have already helped tens of thousands of students begin their journeys.”

This is a reminder that the Apple ecosystem is not just built in Cupertino, or on stage at WWDC. It is also built in classrooms, labs, local communities, and by the next generation of developers.

Here's to ten more 🍾

La Apple Developer Academy di Napoli festeggia il suo decimo anniversario

Quest’anno, la Apple Developer Academy di Napoli festeggia il suo decimo anniversario nella comunità costiera di San Giovanni a Teduccio.

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The Community

Actors in Swift: The Problem They Solve and How it Works

Omar explains why Swift actors exist, how actor isolation protects shared mutable state, and what happens under the hood.

Actors in Swift: The Problem They Solve and How it Works

I finally read SE-0306 and actors stopped being a mystery. Here’s everything that clicked, in plain language.

SwiftDifferentlyOmar Elsayed

AsyncImage improvements in iOS 27

Natalia breaks down iOS 27’s AsyncImage improvements, including URLRequest support for custom headers, cache policies, and timeouts, plus a new modifier.

AsyncImage improvements in iOS 27

iOS 27 gives AsyncImage more control over remote image loading with URLRequest support for custom headers, cache policies, and timeouts, plus the ability to provide a custom URLSession across a SwiftUI view hierarchy.

Nil CoalescingNatalia Panferova

_UIPortalView: From Live Mirroring to Liquid Glass-Style Effects

Artem dives deep on how the private UIKit _UIPortalView mirrors live view content without duplicating view hierarchies or taking snapshots, using it as a window into how UIKit, Core Animation, and Liquid Glass-style effects compose live UI at the rendering layer.

_UIPortalView: From Live Mirroring to Liquid Glass-Style Effects → Livsy Code

Greetings, traveler! I recently spent some time studying one of the more interesting private UIKit components: _UIPortalView. Sometimes you want the same visual content to appear in more than one place on the screen, while keeping the original view alive, interactive, and continuously updated. This kind of requirement appears in many UI effects: A picture-in-picture

Livsy Code → Learn Swift the smart wayLivsy

SwiftUI's new item based presentations in iOS 27

Sagar covers iOS 27’s new item-based alerts and confirmation dialogs in SwiftUI, where optional item or error state can drive presentation directly without extra Boolean flags or synchronization bugs.

SwiftUI’s new item based presentations in iOS 27

Learn how iOS 27 introduces item-based alerts and confirmation dialogs in SwiftUI. Explore all new alert overloads, error-driven presentations, real-world examples, and discover why isPresented may no longer belong in your presentation state.

Sagar UnagarSagar Unagar

Gotcha

When we are out hiking or just taking a walk, our eyes tend to settle on the obvious: the view, the path, the distance. The smaller things that actually live there, the birds, the insects, the creatures moving through the undergrowth, go unnoticed. Slowing down enough to see them changes the experience entirely.

Gotcha, developed by Jurre, manages to stimulate exactly that kind of curiosity. You point your camera at a creature, and the app cuts it out of the frame, identifies it, and slides it into your personal index, with over 800 species across six rarity tiers, from mammals and birds to bugs and reptiles, most of them still waiting as silhouettes. The care in the details is incredible from the first screen: the animations, the haptics, the small satisfactions that make each catch feel like it means something. And yes... we tried pointing it at a photo on a screen. It knew.

Gotcha: Animal Identifier App - App Store

Download Gotcha: Animal Identifier by Jurre de Ruiter on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Gotcha: Animal…

App StoreJurre de Ruiter

Swift Package Index is joining Apple.

It has long been one of the best places to discover packages, check platform support, browse documentation, and understand a dependency before adding it to a project. The good news is that it is expected to keep running as it does today, remain open source, and continue serving the community.

It is a small sentence with big implications: package discovery in Swift might finally become a more central part of the developer experience.

https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/swift-package-index-joins-apple

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