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As part of its "Inspiring Stories" series, the App Store editorial team is featuring apps built by alumni of the Apple Developer Academy in Naples on the homepage this week. Among them: Moonlitt, winner of this year's Apple Design Award, and Anne, nominated for the same award a few years back. As Apple points out, these apps, and all apps published by the alumni of the Academy, have something in common: the Academy itself. Developers and designers from more than 20 countries who learned to think differently and went on to build apps with a real impact on communities around the world.

Celebrating 10 years of app talent - App Store

In January 2016, Apple announced it would open Europe’s first Apple Developer Academy in Naples, Italy. Learn more tips and how-tos on the App Store.

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Foundation Models Utilities

Artem explores Apple’s experimental Foundation Models Utilities package, covering how it connects LanguageModelSession to hosted models, manages growing conversation transcripts, and loads task-specific instructions on demand with runtime skills.

Foundation Models Utilities → Livsy Code

Greetings, traveler! Apple’s Foundation Models framework provides a Swift API for working with language models through sessions, tools, structured output, and dynamic instructions. Apple has now published a separate open-source package called Foundation Models framework utilities that adds several experimental components on top of that framework. The package focuses on three areas: connecting LanguageModelSession to hosted

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Building a custom DynamicProfileModifier in Foundation Models

Artem shows how to build a reusable "economy mode" modifier for Foundation Models' new dynamic profiles, switching a session to the on-device model, capping response length, and trimming history in a single call.

Building a custom DynamicProfileModifier in Foundation Models

Build a reusable economy mode modifier that switches a session on device, caps responses, and trims history

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Building adaptive non-modal panels in SwiftUI

Matthaus walks through how he built a custom, sheet-like panel API that stays non-modal across rotation by switching between a bottom sheet in portrait and an edge-aligned panel in landscape.

Building adaptive non-modal panels in SwiftUI

Learn how to build a non-modal, detent-based sheet API in SwiftUI that adapts from a bottom panel in portrait to an edge-aligned panel in landscape.

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AppScout

Checking how an app is doing usually means opening a browser, signing into App Store Connect, and clicking through pages that were never really built for a quick look. Especially for indie developers, though, those numbers aren't abstract; they're the whole business, and knowing where things stand can really make the difference.

AppScout, developed by Andrew, puts that same information somewhere it's actually easy to check. Connect an App Store Connect Team Key, pick the apps to watch, and downloads, revenue, refunds, and trends are displayed in a single dashboard, broken down by country, device, or product type without extra digging. The interface stays coherent throughout, making this app from a place to check stats into a way to decide what actually needs attention next, whether that's a feature worth shipping or a product quietly falling behind.

AppScout: App Growth App - App Store

Download AppScout: App Growth by Andrew Tanchuk on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like AppScout: App Growth.

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