Weekly Newsletter Issue 32
Weekly newsletter summing up our publications and showcasing app developers and their amazing creations.
Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter.
Apple Pay recently turned 10 years old. The service that promised to revolutionize digital payments has evolved over time and expanded into other offshoots such as Tap to Pay and Tap to Cash.
Will the next challenge be to bring ID cards to everyone's wallets?
Published this week
This week we have covered Natural Language Framework and visionOS 2.
Calculating the semantic distance between words with the Natural Language framework
Antonella delves into the Natural Language framework using the NLEmbedding class to find synonyms by calculating the semantic distance of words.
Antonella Giugliano
Tokenizing text with the Natural Language framework
Luca explains the tokenization process and how to split text to analyze sentiment, identify language, or categorize its contents.
Luca Palmese
Positioning volumes in space in a visionOS app
Matteo explores one of the new visionOS 2 modifiers, onVolumeViewpointChange(updateStrategy:initial:_:), that allows you to automatically rotate volumes and ornaments according to the user's viewpoint.
Matteo Altobello
Create with Swift Napoli Meetup
Save the date! We are happy to announce the date of our next Apple Developer Community meetup in Naples, Italy! Let's meet on December 4th with developers from all over the world to share and connect.
After the success of our launch event in September we listened to all the ideas and proposals our peers shared and we are preparing the event to fit the reality of our community.
Check our updated meetup page and sign up for the meetup newsletter feed to get timely updates about this event and future events in your inbox.
Create with Swift
But with bigger events also come big expenses... so we are happy to announce the call for sponsors for the Create with Swift Napoli Meetup!
If you would like to contribute to the growth of the Apple Developer community in Naples or host the next event, get in touch with us at sponsoring@createwithswift.com to get information about our sponsorship packages.
From the community
Here are our highlights of articles and resources created by the app developer community.
SwiftUI Toasts
Kavsoft provides a hands-on demonstration of how to create interactive toasts in SwiftUI, featuring swipe-to-dismiss functionality and the ability to stack and expand with great visual effects.
How to keep Date’s microseconds precision in Swift
In this article, Toomas explains how to maintain microsecond precision when working with Date and DateFormatter objects in Swift.
Toomas Vahter
Arrays VS Sets In Swift
Gabriel compares arrays and sets in Swift, highlighting their differences, use cases, and performance.
Gabriel Theodoropoulos
Indie App of the Week
Mango Baby
Mango Baby is an all-in-one newborn tracker app to help parents log their baby's daily activities and track their growth trends collaboratively in real time. Created by Yilei Yang to address specific needs, this personal touch is what makes the app truly unique.
There is a strong focus on detail and on effectively covering every single aspect of a child’s growth process during the first months of life. Each piece of information is effectively presented with charts for each specific baby's activities, obtaining a visual pattern of the child's growth in general.
Additionally, the integration of features like Siri Shortcuts, Widgets, Dynamic Island, and Live Activities and support for iPhone and iPad makes this app perfectly integrated into the system and a pleasure to use.
Apple just launched Depth Pro, a cutting-edge model that creates precise, high-quality depth maps from a single image in less than a second.
This could open up some exciting possibilities!
We can’t wait to see what you will Create with Swift.
See you next week!