Welcome to the first 2026 issue of our newsletter.

Apple has expanded the “Develop in Swift” tutorials by adding two new chapters on intelligent features. These chapters demonstrate how developers can leverage the model included in Apple Intelligence to introduce new capabilities in their apps while ensuring that everything remains local and secure.

Develop in Swift | Apple Developer Documentation

Develop in Swift Tutorials introduce app development with Swift and Xcode to anyone learning to build apps for Apple platforms.

Apple Developer Documentation

This Week

This week we have covered SwiftUI, Animations and Gestures.

Understanding Spring Animations in SwiftUI

Letizia breaks down how spring animations work in SwiftUI, explaining the different spring parameters, how they affect motion behavior, and how to use built-in spring presets.

Understanding Spring Animations in SwiftUI

Learn how to use spring animations to enhance the experience of your users in SwiftUI apps.

Create with SwiftLetizia Granata

Understanding gesture hierarchy

Gabriel and Tiago explain how SwiftUI resolves interactions when multiple gestures overlap, and how gesture hierarchy, priority, and coordination affect user interactions.

Understanding gesture hierarchy

Learn how to set up the hierarchy of gestures in views and subviews within a SwiftUI app.

Create with SwiftGabriel Fernandes Thomaz

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Intercepting SwiftUI Sheet Dismissal

Artem shows how to intercept and control sheet dismissal in SwiftUI to detect when a presented sheet is being dismissed, letting you run custom logic or block the dismissal when needed.

Intercepting SwiftUI Sheet Dismissal → Livsy Code

Greetings, traveler! SwiftUI sheets are great until you need one specific behavior: react when the user tries to dismiss the sheet interactively. You can disable interactive dismissal with .interactiveDismissDisabled(), and you can provide a “Done” button, but there’s still a common UX gap: the user drags the sheet down, expects it to close, and you

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Exploring Foundation Models: Prompt Stacking with Result Builders

Rudrank explains how to build and compose layered prompts for Foundation Models in Swift by using result builders, showing how prompt stacking can structure complex instructions cleanly and make AI requests more modular and reusable.

Exploring Foundation Models: Prompt Stacking with Result Builders

Apple’s Foundation Models framework includes PromptBuilder and InstructionsBuilder—Swift result builders that transform how we compose prompts. This post explores why declarative prompt composition beats string concatenation, and how to build type-safe, composable AI interactions.

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Creating and Opening Custom Document Types in SwiftUI

Gabriel walks through how to define, register, and support custom document types in SwiftUI, showing how to handle document opening and work with your app’s own file formats.

Creating and Opening Custom Document Types in SwiftUI – SerialCoder.dev

MusicBox Mini

The apps we use daily on our devices are mostly tools that help us with everyday tasks, assisting us in our work and sometimes making our lives easier. Then there are other apps that manage to generate emotion through a particular interaction, an out-of-the-box idea, or a unique experience.

MusicBox Mini App, developed by Bowen, is one of those apps that can generate emotion with a brilliant idea. The iPhone app lets you play several melodies on a music box and allows users to compose their own using a simple and effective mechanism. The best part is the companion Apple Watch app, which lets you play the notes of your compositions using the Digital Crown, much like the old music boxes we have at home as personal memories.

MusicBox Mini App - App Store

Download MusicBox Mini by 诗棋 杨 on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like MusicBox Mini.

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If your New Year's resolution list includes continuing to learn new things in Swift and to develop apps for the Apple ecosystem (spoiler, ours includes it!), here is one of many events you cannot miss. This format Apple introduced proved to be very effective and now they have made one for SwiftUI:

Meet with Apple - Apple Developer

Join us around the world for a variety of sessions, labs, and workshops — tailored for you.

Apple Developer

And... if you are a student who aspires to be one of the next Swift Student Challenge winners, Apple also has a special appointment for you, where you'll have the possibility of exploring app development resources and getting inspired for your project.

Meet with Apple - Apple Developer

Join us around the world for a variety of sessions, labs, and workshops — tailored for you.

Apple Developer

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

See you next week!