Remember the announcement of the Swift source compatibility test suite? Well here’s a happy story from Jesse Squires about why it’s valuable and how he added his project to it!
For as long as I can remember, it has been possible to customise the new file templates in Xcode but it has always been an awkward and undocumented process. No more, as Xcode 9 has new plist files for template customisation. There’s documentation and you have the ability to customise per project, per user, and in many other ways! Ole Begemann has all the details.
The iOS simulator has received a lot of love in Xcode 9! We’ve linked to various new tips and tricks over the last few weeks but as we head towards the release, let’s get a good round up of everything that’s new from Ahmed Sulaiman.
Did you know that the Vision framework could also do word and letter detection in text that it sees? Sai Kambampati has a great tutorial here for putting that feature through its paces.
Like Federico Zanetello, I also hope that this trend of adding Codable to all the things continues! 🙌
You’ve almost certainly read everything you need to know about Codable in Swift already, right? What about how it works behind the scenes? Who better to do it justice than Mike Ash with a Friday Q&A on the subject.
You very probably know this already, but just in case you don’t Keith Harrison reminds us about another opportunity to replace some vars with lets which can only be a good thing.
We all know the answer to this, right? NEVER! Wait, what? There’s a case where you still advocate it Nick Babich? Oh OK then, tell us more…
I know this isn’t anything to do with iOS, but I bet you still enjoy it 🤠 Joe Cieplinski takes us through some of the better examples of apps using the Touch Bar on modern MacBook Pro models to great effect.
A wonderful set of videos from the ADD conference which was held last month in the beautiful city of Barcelona.
Great sleuthing 🕵️♀️