Weekly Newsletter Issue 119

Weekly Newsletter Issue 119

Weekly newsletter summing up our publications and showcasing app developers and their amazing creations.

Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter.

It's been just a few days since one of Apple's most memorable events yet, marking the handoff from Tim Cook to John Ternus alongside the new iPhone Pro lineup, a revamped Apple Watch, fresh AirPods, and, above all, Apple's entry into foldables with the iPhone Duo. It's a device that will surely divide fans, but one that will likely open the door to new form factors down the line.

Are you getting one?

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RevenueCat Shipaton IRL x Naples - by Create with Swift

One of our main goals with Create with Swift has always been to put Naples on the map for app developers around the world. That’s why we’re so proud that RevenueCat trusted us to host a Shipaton 2026 IRL event in Naples!

Join us on September 23rd for aperitivo, ideas, team formation, and a night with Naples’ Apple developer community.

Come with an idea. Find your people. Ship!

RevenueCat Shipaton IRL × Naples - by Create with Swift · Luma
Together with our friends at RevenueCat, we’re hosting a Shipaton 2026 kickoff night in Naples. Shipaton is RevenueCat’s global hackathon for builders shipping…

From

The Community

Headless Xcode: From Prompt to Simulator with MCP

Artem walks through Xcode 27's new headless MCP server, which lets a coding agent build, preview, and test an app without opening Xcode's UI.

Headless Xcode: From Prompt to Simulator with MCP
Use Xcode 27’s headless MCP server and Apple’s agent skills to build, preview, and verify an iOS app

Building AI features using Foundation Models. Multimodal input.

Majid explores multimodal input in Foundation Models, showing how to attach images to a prompt with the new Attachment type and get structured, Generable output back through a plate-scanning example.

Building AI features using Foundation Models. Multimodal input.
One of the most eagerly anticipated additions to Foundation Models was the ability to input images. I was almost certain that we would receive this feature during this WWDC, and fortunately, we did. This week, we will learn how to utilize the multimodal input capability in Foundation Models.

SwiftUI concentricCornerRadii in iOS 27

Sagar explores the new concentricCornerRadii APIs on GeometryProxy in iOS 27, covering how SwiftUI resolves the radii from a container shape and how to use the results with Canvas, custom Pathdrawing and animations.

SwiftUI concentricCornerRadii in iOS 27 - Complete GeometryReader guide
Learn how to use GeometryProxy.concentricCornerRadii and concentricCornerRadii(in:) in SwiftUI on iOS 27 with practical examples, Canvas drawing, custom shapes, and animations.





Indie App of the Week

ARC-24

A melody that surfaces on a walk, or a chord change that clicks while waiting for a bus, rarely survives the trip home. By the time a keyboard or a studio is available again, the idea itself has usually faded, and what's left is just the memory that something was there.

ARC-24, developed by Daelan Wood, is built to catch that moment instead of losing it: a full multitrack groove-box for iPhone and iPad, always in a pocket, ready the second an idea shows up. Eight tracks become synth, sampler or drums depending on what's played into them first, with every pad locked to a key and scale so a loop can be played straight through and recorded on the spot, overdubs and all. Sixteen sampler pads for chopping and pitching real-world sound, ten drum kits, a two-oscillator synth engine, and its own effects rack on every track mean an idea caught at a bus stop can grow into a finished song without ever opening a laptop.

ARC-24: Multitrack Groovebox App - App Store
Download ARC-24: Multitrack Groovebox by Daelan Wood on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like ARC-24: Multitrack…

Apple shared a great read about Klemens Strasser and Art of Fauna, exploring how accessibility became a core part of his approach to building apps, not something added at the end.

How Klemens Strasser prioritized inclusivity with Art of Fauna - Discover - Apple Developer
More than a decade into his career as a developer, Strasser earned a second Apple Design Award — this time in the Inclusivity category.

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

See you next week!

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