Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter.

Submissions for the 2026 Swift Student Challenge are open, an exciting opportunity for students around the world to showcase their creativity, build original Swift Playgrounds, and make a meaningful impact while joining the global community of developers.

Swift Student Challenge

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

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At the same time, the Apple Developer Academy 2026/27 in Naples, Italy, at the University of Naples Federico II, is accepting applications for its immersive nine-month program in app development, design, and entrepreneurship.

Call for Applications at the Apple Developer Academy 2026

Become a World Class Developer at the Apple Developer Academy in Naples, Italy. Call for Application 2026/27.

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Participating in the Swift Student Challenge or choosing to enroll in the Apple Developer Academy are powerful opportunities for anyone who wants to pursue their passion and dive deeper into the world of app development. Whether you’re showcasing your ideas on a global stage or joining a new immersive learning experience, this is your chance to grow, create, and stand out.

Best of luck to all applicants!

This Week

This week, we have covered Metal.

Taking First Steps into Metal Shaders

Letizia shows how to work with Metal shaders in SwiftUI, explaining what shaders are, how to create a simple one, and how to integrate it into SwiftUI views to produce custom visual effects.

Taking First Steps into Metal Shaders

Learn the basics of Metal with SwiftUI to take your first steps on using shaders in your app UI.

Create with SwiftLetizia Granata

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The Community

How to use SwiftUI Coordinators to communicate with UIKit

Natascha explains how to use SwiftUI coordinators to communicate with UIKit when wrapping a UIViewControllerRepresentable, handling delegate/callback events and passing data back into SwiftUI state.

How to use SwiftUI Coordinators to communicate with UIKit

Learn how to use SwiftUI coordinators to bridge UIKit views, handle delegates, and send events back to SwiftUI when integrating UIKit components.

Morphing Sheets Out of Buttons in SwiftUI

Gabriel shows how to create interactive, animated transitions in SwiftUI where a button morphs into a sheet.

Morphing Sheets Out of Buttons in SwiftUI – SerialCoder.dev

On-demand resources in iOS app

Majid shares how to use On-Demand Resources (ODR) in an iOS app to keep the initial download small and fetch large assets like images, sounds, level data, or ML models only when needed.

On-demand resources in iOS app

On-Demand Resources allow you to ship a smaller initial app download and fetch additional assets like images, sounds, level data, ML models, and more only when a user requires them. This week, we’ll explore how to utilize on-demand resources to store secrets outside of the app binary.

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Flashback

Change happens slowly; in our faces, our routines, our passions, and the projects we return to day after day. Yet those transformations are often too subtle to notice in the moment.

Flashback, created by Nao, captures exactly that idea. The app lets you document changes over time, taking a photo everyday by layering a translucent version of your previous photo with a built-in grid for perfect alignment. The result is seamless, satisfying time-based videos that reveal progress you might otherwise miss.

What really caught our attention is the clarity of the concept and how it’s executed. Beyond its thoughtful functionality, Flashback shines through its bold yet delightful animations (especially in the onboarding), adding personality and craft to an already compelling idea.

Flashback - Record Changes App - App Store

Download Flashback - Record Changes by Nao Enomoto on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Flashback - Record…

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Missed the all-day SwiftUI event streamed from the Apple Developer Center in Cupertino?

The full session is now available to watch on demand. The Meet with Apple event delivered a deep dive into SwiftUI fundamentals. A highlight of the day was James Graham, CTO of AllTrails, sharing how his team leveraged SwiftUI to drive momentum without a complete rewrite. The event wrapped up with an insightful panel discussion featuring members of the SwiftUI engineering team.

This session is for sure worth catching up on.

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

See you next week!