Noah Gilmore has a bit of good news about Xcode 12 for you!
A very nice new feature in this year’s Xcode is the ability for Playgrounds to easily use Swift Package Manager dependencies, as long as they’re on your local disk. There’s no way to trick Xcode into using a remotely hosted package, is there? Erica Sadun has a clever little trick. 🤯
Is crash reporting on your mind today? 😬 It might be a good time to read Matt Massicotte’s thoughts on crash reporting in iOS 14 with MetricKit. There are some problems, but what he found is promising. He’s also working on a companion library, Meter.
I saw this useful diagram by Chris Eidhof at the start of this week and knew straight away that I’d want to link to it. It’s a great way to figure out which of the many state property wrappers are best for each situation. I thought Chris might blog about it, but instead, Donny Wals took up the challenge and created a whole new web site dedicated to the subject, featuring the diagram right at the top. It’s also worth watching the excellent WWDC video on Data Essentials.
But that’s not all! John Sundell wrote on the same subject this week, as did Majid Jabrayilov and Daniel Steinberg drew some conclusions too. What do they say? Great minds think alike!
This year’s new hotness in UICollectionView
this year is… table views! I’m not sure Apple would ever truly deprecate UITableView
, but this is a good sign of where UIKit list-style UI is heading. Let Keith Harrison show you around what’s new. The official WWDC video on this is also well worth watching.
It’s likely you will already have seen this post from Michael Flarup (seriously, 1.5 million views in 24 hours?! 👏) but I just have to link to it as I agree with every word in it. Big Sur is beautiful and shows such promise for the future of software design across all Apple platforms.
Here’s Ryan Ashcraft with a great post looking back on a year of independent development. Food Noms is a fantastic app that I’ve been a fan of since the beta. It’s worth reading every word of this retrospective if you’re an indie developer, or have dreams of becoming one!
Are there lots of changes to unit testing in this year’s release of Xcode? Yes! Certainly, enough for Jon Reid to fill a 16-minute video with a comprehensive look at the improvements. 👍
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