Weekly Newsletter Issue 71

Weekly Newsletter Issue 71

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

Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter.

Blender is working on a version for iPadOS with the goal of bringing its full power to a wider audience making 3D technology accessible for everyone. This shift is crucial especially for the visionOS platform where the best experiences are made of amazing 3D objects.

Beyond Mouse & Keyboard — Blender Developers Blog
Get ready for blending on-the-go.
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This Week

This week we have covered SwiftUI and UX Design.

Define how scrolling behaves with Scroll Target Behavior in SwiftUI

Antonella demonstrates how to customize scroll endings and content alignment in SwiftUI, helping you achieve smooth and precise scrolling in your apps.

Define how scrolling behaves with Scroll Target Behavior in SwiftUI
Learn how to customize the way the scroll behavior ends and the content aligns when scrolling in SwiftUI

Building for hate: Designing for deception

Giselle shows how familiar UI patterns can become deceptive, highlighting the risks of manipulative design and the importance of ethical, user-focused approaches as new regulations emerge.

Building for hate: Designing for deception
Understand the difference between persuasive and manipulative design in user interfaces and the consequences behind these design decisions.

Define the scroll edge effect style of a Scroll View

Antonella explains how to configure the adaptive scroll edge blur effect that blends scrolling content with Liquid Glass UI surfaces of the SafeArea.

Define the scroll edge effect style of a scroll view for Liquid Glass
Learn how to change the edge effect of the scrolling view behavior in areas where the scroll view intersects with the safe area.


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From

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Understanding SwiftUI ViewBuilder: The Magic Behind Declarative Syntax

Walid breaks down how ViewBuilder powers SwiftUI’s declarative syntax, explaining how that lets you write flexible, type-safe views.

Understanding SwiftUI ViewBuilder: The Magic Behind Declarative Syntax
SwiftUI’s declarative syntax often feels like magic. You can write natural-looking code with if statements, multiple view expressions, even loops — and somehow, it all just works. But how? The secret lies in ViewBuilder — one of Swift’s most powerful tools that transforms your declarative code into optimized SwiftUI types. Let’s dive into what makes this possible. The Foundation: Result Builders Before focusing on ViewBuilder itself, it’s important to understand what it’s built on: Swift’s Result Builder system (previously called Function Builders).

SwiftUI Search Enhancements in iOS and iPadOS 26

Natalia demonstrates the latest search enhancements in SwiftUI for iOS and iPadOS 26, highlighting how new placements and visual styles simplify the process of creating search experiences within your apps.

SwiftUI Search Enhancements in iOS and iPadOS 26
Take advantage of the updated search placement and behavior in iOS 26, and implement toolbar and tab bar search patterns that adapt across devices and integrate with the new Liquid Glass design.

Streaming changes with Observations

Majid explains how the new Observations type in Swift’s Observation framework brings async streams to observable models, making it easy to track state changes.

Streaming changes with Observations
Apple introduced the Observation framework a few years ago. The Observation framework became the main tool for building observable models, replacing the Combine framework. This week, we will talk about a new piece of the framework called Observations.

Indie App of the Week

What's the Score, Bro?

When an app is born out of a personal need, the final product is almost always something particularly polished and effective. This is the case with the app developed by Thilo, a passionate football enthusiast who has also coached his children.

This app features intuitive match event tracking along with fitness and movement analysis, helping referees not only manage the game but also monitor and improve their own performance from match to match with the Apple Watch.

‎What’s the Score, Bro? Reffing
‎“What’s the Score, Bro?” is the ultimate app for soccer referees, making pen and paper a thing of the past. Trusted by the Hessian Football Association and developed in collaboration with the German Football Association, it covers all aspects of the official IFAB rules for the 2024/25 season. Whethe…

With the summer heat kicking in, we’re taking a little break in August to recharge our batteries. That means the newsletter will be on pause for a few weeks but don’t worry, we’ll be back in September, more energized than ever with new incredible articles and apps shared by our amazing developer community!

Enjoy the summer, do not forget the sunscreen and see you soon! ☀️🤙

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

See you next week!

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