Weekly Newsletter Issue 67

Weekly Newsletter Issue 67

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

Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter.

Summer’s heating up here in Naples, and so is the Swift scene. 
Whether you’re coding with the AC blasting or sneaking in gelato breaks between commits, this week’s newsletter brings you cool reads to keep your code sharp and your creativity flowing.

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Published

This Week

This week we have covered SwiftUI, Liquid Glass and Augmented Reality.

Responding to gestures: Dragging

Gabriel and Tiago show how to implement drag gestures in SwiftUI to build interactive and draggable interface elements.

Responding to gestures: Dragging
Learn how to implement drag gestures in SwiftUI to create fluid and intuitive draggable interface elements.

Adapting Search to the Liquid Glass Design System

Matteo explores how to integrate and style the enhanced search feature within SwiftUI apps, adhering to Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language.

Adapting Search to the Liquid Glass Design System
Discover how search behaves within the new Apple design system within a SwiftUI app.

Create a web AR experience with AR Quick Look

Giusi demonstrates how to leverage Safari's augmented reality capabilities with AR Quick Look to display 3D models from your webpage in the real world.

Create a web AR experience with AR Quick Look
Learn how to provide an improved spatial experience within a website on Safari with AR Quick Look.


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From

The Community

Schedule a countdown timer with AlarmKit

Natalia provides a step-by-step guide that demonstrates how to integrate the new AlarmKit into your SwiftUI app, supporting countdown timers and complete with Live Activity.

Schedule a countdown timer with AlarmKit
Step through the essential setup for AlarmKit timers in iOS 26, from requesting authorization and scheduling a countdown to presenting the Live Activity and an in-app list of active timers.

Getting Started with Apple's Foundation Models

Artem walks through using Apple’s new on-device Foundation Models framework to integrate Apple Intelligence’s LLMs into SwiftUI apps.

Getting Started with Apple’s Foundation Models
Learn how to use Foundation Models in iOS apps

Designing custom UI with Liquid Glass on iOS 26

Donny offers a practical guide demonstrating how to build custom, interactive Liquid Glass UI components in SwiftUI, covering the morphing and grouping of glass elements.

Designing custom UI with Liquid Glass on iOS 26 – Donny Wals
Liquid Glass is iOS 26’s new design language. This means that a lot of apps will be adopting a new UI philosophy that might require some significant changes to how you’re designing your app’s UI.

Migrating to Swift 6 Tutorial

Audrey Tam provides a practical guide to migrating iOS apps to Swift 6.2, focusing on concurrency updates, thread safety, and using Xcode tools to modernize existing SwiftUI code.

Migrating to Swift 6 Tutorial
The migration path to Swift 6 is now a lot smoother, with lots more guideposts. Work through this tutorial to find out how much easier it’s become.

Indie App of the Week

World Clock Master

Designed for those navigating life across time zones, World Clock Master centers on a 24-hour dial that displays global times in a single, continuous view, providing users with a clear and uncluttered view of global times. The user can easily set up alarms and calendar events in a specific time zone.

Everything in the app developed by Alex is smooth and intuitive, making the organization of events in different time zones easy, with haptic feedback and intuitive controls. Additionally, the app features useful widgets that allow you to view time zones at a glance, right on your home screen.

‎World Clock Master: Time Zones
‎THE EASIEST WAY TO DEAL WITH MULTIPLE TIMEZONES + INTERACTIVE WIDGETS Sick of screwing up meeting times and missing calls? This app cuts through time-zone confusion and hands you the perfect hour at a glance. Forget guesswork — just click, connect, and impress. KEY FEATURES EVENT SCHEDULING MADE E…

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

See you next week!

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