Weekly Newsletter Issue 37
Weekly newsletter summing up our publications and showcasing app developers and their amazing creations.
Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter.
Shazam reaches 100 billion songs identified and it’s incredible to think how a service that started with SMS has become so ingrained in our daily lives. It has even turned into a neologism, offering music fans more ways than ever to discover songs quickly and effortlessly.
This week, Apple released an article explaining how enterprise customers with the necessary entitlement can implement camera-based features in business apps for visionOS.
Published this week
This week we have covered SwiftUI and Apple Intelligence
Exploring Interactive Bottom Sheets in SwiftUI
Pasquale provides a full overview of sheets and presentation detents covering built-in sizes, custom detents to implement bottom sheets similar to Apple’s apps like Maps, Find My and Stocks.
Pasquale Vittoriosi
Supporting Writing Tools on your app
Matteo delves into the implementation details of adding full support and customization options for Writing Tools within your text fields.
Matteo Altobello
Create with Swift at SwiftLeeds
The video of Flora’s insightful talk on App Icons is now available for you to watch!
Tiago Gomes Pereira
From the community
Here are our highlights of articles and resources created by the app developer community.
Deep Dive into Environment in SwiftUI
Mohammad describes in detail the SwiftUI’s environment explaining how it facilitates the sharing of state across views. It begins by exploring the scope and injection of environment objects within the view hierarchy, delves into their behavior during view rendering, and highlights practical applications in real-world apps.
Mohammad Azam
Updating your apps with silent push notifications
Donny discusses how to use silent push notifications to make sure your users always see the latest data from a server.
donnywals
Integrating Live Activity and Dynamic Island in iOS: A Complete Guide
In this first part of a two articles series, Radhika covers in detail the essentials of Live Activities and Dynamic Island showing the setting up, updating, and ending process of an activity.
Radhika saliya
Recreating Mail App’s Tab bar
Kavsoft shows step-by-step how to implement the new segmented picker from the redesigned Mail App.
Indie App of the Week
Personal Best
This app stands out from other fitness apps with its emphasis on presenting workout data through a simple, intuitive graphical interface, offering workout leaderboards, and enabling users to share their workouts with custom-designed graphics. The premium plan also includes thoughtfully designed pricing tiers that align perfectly with the app’s features.
We definitely appreciated Shaun’s effort to bring something fresh to the world of workout apps by introducing an interesting and engaging way to display workout data using widgets, Siri support, and shortcuts. One notable feature is the App Clip, accessible directly from the developer’s website, which offers a convenient preview of the app.
Codakuma Ltd
And as a curiosity... did you know that you can create screensavers with Swift??????
Well, we guess now it’s truly fitting to say…
We can’t wait to see what you will Create with Swift.
See you next week!