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Swift 6.2 is here with improvements that make coding smoother and faster. It delivers improved performance, faster build times, enhanced tools, and early WebAssembly support, making Swift easier and more reliable for developers.

Swift 6.2 Released

We’re excited to announce Swift 6.2, a release aimed at making every Swift developer more productive, regardless of where or how you write code. From improved tooling and libraries to enhancements in concurrency and performance, Swift 6.2 delivers a broad set of features designed for real-world development at every layer of the software stack.

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This Week

This week we have covered AVKit and SwiftUI.

Playing a video in a SwiftUI app

Gabriel and Tiago show how to embed a video in SwiftUI using AVKit’s VideoPlayer, from loading a local video file to placing it in a custom layout.

Playing a video in a SwiftUI app

Learn how to implement a simple video player for reproducing videos in a SwiftUI app.

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Playback controls for video in a SwiftUI app

Gabriel and Tiago walk through building custom video controls in SwiftUI using AVKit with play, pause, stop, forward/rewind buttons and a synchronized slider.

Playback controls for video in a SwiftUI app

Understand how to control video playback in a SwiftUI app with the AVKit framework.

Create with SwiftGabriel Fernandes Thomaz

Implementing drag and drop with the SwiftUI modifiers

Letizia details how to add drag and drop in SwiftUI with onDrag and onDrop, handling item encoding/decoding and drop feedback.

Implementing drag and drop with the SwiftUI modifiers

Learn how to implement drag and drop features within your SwiftUI apps.

Create with SwiftLetizia Granata

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Create an Interactive Snippet Shortcut using App Intents

Jordan shows how to build an interactive SwiftUI snippet powered by App Intents to create a responsive counter view with buttons, manage state with dependencies, and see how App Intents can add dynamic shortcuts to your app.

Create an Interactive Snippet Shortcut using App Intents

Create an interactive snippet view.

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Using the Observations framework to observe model properties

Donny explores Swift’s new Observations API in Xcode 26, showing how you can easily observe changes to @Observable model properties outside SwiftUI.

Using the Observations framework to observe model properties – Donny Wals

Starting with Xcode 26, there’s a new way to observe properties of your models. In the past, we had to use the function to access properties and receive changes with semantics. In Xcode 26 and Swift 6.

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Advanced Swift Concurrency: AsyncStream

Jacob demonstrates how to use AsyncStream in real-world scenarios like streaming file download progress, location updates with CoreLocation and FPS performance monitoring, showing how to yield values over time and consume them with for await loops.

Advanced Swift Concurrency: AsyncStream

How and when to use this powerful Swift Concurrency tool

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Convert SwiftUI Views into Multi-Page PDF File

Kavsoft practically shows how to create multi-page PDF files of SwiftUI views.

Alyx

Developed by Jordan, this app is a perfect example of a focused app, designed to help you effortlessly track your daily caffeine intake and predict its impact on your sleep schedule. With a suite of intuitive charts, you get a comprehensive overview of your consumption patterns and their effects, with great attention to each micro interaction.

What sets this app apart is its deep integration with system features. You can log your coffee intake using visual intelligence, estimate caffeine’s influence with Foundation Model-powered LLM predictions and access all core functions through system shortcuts, stunning widgets and Siri support.

‎Alyx: Caffeine Kit

‎Alyx is a silly way to track caffeine. Quickly log espresso, lattes or anything else and see how it affects your health, sleep or view other interesting stuff! Of course, you can log caffeine here. Aside from being a coffee, espresso, energy drink, or general caffeine tracker and journal, there are…

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