Weekly Newsletter Issue 81

Weekly Newsletter Issue 81

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

Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter.

A lot of aspiring developers started their careers and joined the Apple Developer community starting with the Swift Student Challenge.

Apple announced the submission date for this year, giving students from all around the world the opportunity to showcase their creativity and capabilities.

Swift Student Challenge
Showcase your love of coding by submitting your app playground to the Swift Student Challenge.
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Published

This Week

This week we have covered Language Discovery, Creative Coding and visionOS.

Making Apps More Personal with Language Discovery

Letizia explores how to use iOS 26’s new Language Discovery APIs to detect a user’s preferred languages automatically and adapt content accordingly, showing how to interpret Language and LanguageDiscovery results to make apps feel more personal.

Making Apps More Personal with Language Discovery
Learn how to utilize Language Discovery to create experiences that reflect the languages and cultural elements of your users.

Creative Coding: Randomness and Noise

Antonella shows how to apply randomness and noise in SwiftUI using CanvasTimelineView and custom noise generators to create evolving, expressive visuals where algorithm meets art.

Creative Coding: Randomness and Noise
Understand how to introduce noise in your algorithms to create smooth variations that change across time and space.

Creating Ornaments in visionOS

Alfonso explores Ornaments in visionOS detailing how to use the ornament( ) modifier in SwiftUI to build custom controls and info panels that float just in front of your app window so they stay accessible without getting in the way.

Creating Ornaments in visionOS
Understand the usage of Ornaments in visionOS applications.


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From

The Community

SwiftUI Custom URL Schemes

Keith explains how to register and use custom URL schemes in iOS 26’s WebView and WebPage APIs showing how to implement the URLSchemeHandler protocol, register scheme handlers and load local resources with a custom scheme.

SwiftUI Custom URL Schemes
Create a custom URL scheme handler for SwiftUI WebViews

Zooming With The Magnify Gesture in SwiftUI

Gabriel walks through how to implement the magnify gesture (pinch-to-zoom) in SwiftUI showing how to attach the MagnificationGesture to a view, track scale changes and apply them smoothly to your content.

Zooming With The Magnify Gesture in SwiftUI – SerialCoder.dev

Smoothly Switching Between Layouts in SwiftUI with AnyLayout

Artem demonstrates how to use AnyLayout in SwiftUI to toggle between different layout containers with animation while preserving view identity and enabling smooth transitions across layout changes.

Smoothly Switching Between Layouts in SwiftUI with AnyLayout → Livsy Code
Greetings, traveler! When SwiftUI introduced the Layout protocol in iOS 16, it also brought a powerful companion — AnyLayout. This type-erased wrapper allows developers to switch between different layout types without losing state or interrupting animations. It solves a common limitation in earlier SwiftUI versions, where changing from one layout (such as HStack) to another





Indie App of the Week

toolslink

This link manager app helps you organize, find, and share links with minimal effort. The app developed by Mohit automatically tags links based on content and context and includes a share extension so you can save from multiple apps in one step.

The interface focuses on simplicity with quick actions for common tasks, with a native look and feel, integration with iCloud sync and handy widgets to have always our links in the Home Screen.

toolslink App - App Store
Download toolslink by Mohit Arora on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like toolslink.

Apple has rolled out an updated version of the App Store website with featuring a clean, modern design and improved navigation. The refreshed web experience now lets users browse the complete catalog of apps available across all Apple platforms making it easier to discover, preview, and learn about apps directly from any browser.

Today for iPhone - App Store
Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.

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

See you next week!

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