Weekly Newsletter Issue 20
Weekly newsletter summing up our publications and showcasing app developers and their amazing creations.
Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter.
The developer community just got a boost by welcoming a big cohort of new developers to the community! Last week, the learners from the Apple Developer Academy in Naples graduated and Lisa Jackson was there to celebrate them and the projects they created!
Congratulations! We can’t wait to see what you create. https://t.co/3xhSCjcIX9
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) July 2, 2024
Published this week
This week we have covered SwiftUI, Widgets, and Gestures.
Exploring the Navigation Split View
Pasquale and Matteo explore the NavigationSplitView, its behavior on different platforms, how to implement it, and how to customize the appearance using the related modifiers.
Pasquale Vittoriosi
Creating a Lock Screen widget with SwiftUI
After showing you how to create widgets, Tiago and Matteo show you how to make widgets available on the Lock Screen covering the different types of Lock Screen widgets and how to handle sensitive information displayed.
Tiago Gomes Pereira
The Touch Evolution: How Gestures Shape Our Digital Worlds
Gestures are a big part of the experience of our apps. Domenico sets the foundation for gesture-based interactions and their role in the user experience of our applications.
Domenico De Luca
From the community
Here are our highlights of articles and resources created by the app developer community.
Mastering the Swift Testing Framework
fatbobman explores in detail the new Swift Testing Framework presented during WWDC24 showing how to set it up, write test cases, and enhance test quality.
Fatbobman
SwiftUI Custom Time Picker Like Apple Timer App
Another great tutorial by Kavsoft demonstrates how to create a custom time picker in SwiftUI for hours, minutes, and seconds, similar to the Clock app.
WWDC24: Key Updates for macOS Development with SwiftUI
Karin explores all the new features coming to macOS 15 for SwiftUI development announced during WWDC24, such as the new APIs for window management, keyboard input, and tab views with practical examples and useful insights.
Indie App of the Week
Strolly
Strolly is a focused app developed by Natalia and Matthaus that generates three unique, random looping walks starting from a specific location directly on the device using native Apple frameworks.
The app delivers exactly what it promises and has a clean, simple interface with great attention to detail. It also offers an interesting feature: the ability to flag specific segments of the proposed paths so they are not suggested in the future.
The Apple Developer Academy in Naples is just one of many academies graduating engaged and inspired developers every year and contributing to making the developer community bigger and richer.
Apple has a dedicated page about them on the Developer portal!
We can’t wait to see what you will Create with Swift.
See you next week!