Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter.

As Apple approaches its 50th anniversary on April 1st, the company has launched a special page celebrating the ideas, products, and people that shaped its journey. From a garage startup to one of the most influential companies in the world, Apple’s story is one of curiosity, creativity, and a relentless drive to build technology that empowers people.

It’s a moment to look back at the breakthroughs that defined generations and to imagine what the next 50 years might bring.

50 Years of Thinking Different

Read a letter from CEO Tim Cook as he reflects on 50 Years of Apple.

Apple

This Week

This week we have covered App Design.

Small Choices, Big Impact: The Environmental Cost of Mobile Design Decisions

Giselle reflects and discusses the environmental side effects that even small design decisions in our app's features and user interface might trigger and how we can address them.

Small Choices, Big Impact: The Environmental Cost of Mobile Design Decisions

Reflect upon the possible environmental impact of design choices in your app features and user interace design.

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Vibe Coding a Cross-Platform App: Building a Daily Word Game with AI in 24 Hours

Aryaman shares his lessons learned from building and shipping a cross‑platform daily word game in under 24 hours by leaning heavily on AI tools.

Vibe Coding a Cross-Platform App: Building a Daily Word Game with AI in 24 Hours

A professional iOS developer tries a fully hands-off vibe coding approach to ship UnJumbl, a cross-platform daily word puzzle game, to the App Store and Web in 24 hours. What happened when I stopped writing code entirely.

Digital BunkerAryaman Sharda

Why I'm Still Thinking About Core Data in 2026

Fatbobman shares why Core Data should remain a practical choice for Swift developers due to its maturity, reliable object‑graph management, and ability to handle complex data models.

Why I’m Still Thinking About Core Data in 2026

Core Data remains widely used in 2026, but its mismatch with modern Swift concurrency, type safety, and code expression is growing. This article outlines the three core pain points and introduces a path to modernization without abandoning Core Data.

Fatbobman's BlogFatbobman

How to use custom names for Swift properties when decoding JSON data

Natascha explains how developers can use the CodingKeys enum in Swift to map JSON fields to differently named model properties when decoding data with Codable.

How to use custom names for Swift properties when decoding JSON data

Swift’s Codable protocol makes it easy to convert JSON data to native Swift types and vice versa. In some cases though, we may want to customize how JSON keys map to Swift properties. This article shows how to do that using CodingKeys.

Preventing SwiftUI .refreshable from Affecting Child ScrollViews

Artem show how to stop SwiftUI’s .refreshable modifier from unintentionally affecting nested scroll views by overriding the refresh action in the environment so child scroll views don’t inherit the parent’s pull-to-refresh behavior.

Preventing SwiftUI .refreshable from Affecting Child ScrollViews → Livsy Code

Greetings, traveler! SwiftUI’s .refreshable looks deceptively simple: attach it to a List or ScrollView, implement a refresh closure, and you get pull-to-refresh for free. However, there is a detail that often surprises developers the first time they build more complex view hierarchies: .refreshable is not scoped to a single scroll view. Under the hood, it

Livsy Code → Learn Swift the smart wayLivsy

Huephoria

Picking the right colors has always felt more intuitive than logical; a mood, a memory, a feeling that's hard to pin down, let alone translate into a palette.

Huephoria, developed by Nicola, bridges that gap by turning emotion into color. Describe a feeling or a moment in words and the app's AI engine transforms it into a curated palette that feels genuine rather than formulaic. Beyond generation, the app lets you extract hidden palettes from your own photos and explore them across three distinct viewing modes such as Palette, Gradient, and Color Map, each offering a different lens on the same spectrum.
Wrapped in a minimal design that stays elegant across its full range of creative tools, it's an invitation to experience color not just as aesthetics, but as feeling.

Huephoria AI App - App Store

Download Huephoria AI by Nicola Felaco on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Huephoria AI.

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Apple is saying “hello” in a new way.

This week, Apple quietly launched a brand-new Instagram account, @helloapple, designed to spotlight the stories behind its products and the people who use them. As the bio puts it: “our stories, and yours.”.
Check it out:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVySPeYjXpz

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

See you next week!