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ISSUE 579  October 7th 2022

 
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Why do I link to Alexandre Colucciā€™s articles reporting on Appleā€™s internal use of various technologies every time he publishes them? Because theyā€™re fascinating!

His latest post covers IOS 16, and the results start predictably. The number of Appleā€™s apps using Swift and SwiftUI continues to rise exponentially, and several existing apps have included SwiftUI code for the first time this year. That said, Objective-C still dominates the iOS codebase, with it being a part of over 65% of all binaries, which should answer the question of how close Apple is to deprecating it. So far, so good.

The statistic that made me pause was that only four Apple apps use the SwiftUI app lifecycle. Thatā€™s less than 2% of all their apps that use SwiftUI.

Should we read into this that the SwiftUI lifecycle is bad? Is SwiftUI doomed because of how few of Appleā€™s apps are using it? Of course not! I think itā€™s like this for a couple of perfectly reasonable reasons. Replacing the heart of any app is never trivial unless the app is tiny, and The SwiftUI app lifecycle is still new and far from feature complete. Itā€™s still early days for it.

Itā€™s important to remember that going ā€œall inā€ on SwiftUI isnā€™t necessary. Despite the famous message from this yearā€™s keynote, the fastest and best way to write an iOS app today is with a mixture of technologies, and it appears thatā€™s exactly what Apple is doing internally. šŸš€

Note: I know Iā€™ve used/misused this image several times. Itā€™s worth saying that I donā€™t mean to ridicule it, and I donā€™t disagree with the message given the context in which Josh presented it. The SotU (where I believe this came from) is a perfect place for broad statements and to set direction. That direction is clear and correct, but the reality of any company, whether it be yours or Apple themselves is much more complex. Itā€™s all fine. šŸ‘

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Over 3,000 Words On What The Measurement Type Is And Why You Should Be Using It

The title of this post from Brett Ohland isn't the only thing that's good about it. The Measurement framework probably isnā€™t something youā€™ll need in every app you write, but I love that it exists and this comprehensive blog post from Brett is a great way to learn about it. What else would you expect from the person behind this site?

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Pitfall of Nested ObservableObject

If youā€™ve worked with SwiftUI, youā€™ll likely have dealt with this issue in one way or another. Junda Ong has an excellent solution using Combine.

Perhaps one day, SwiftUI will support such a use.

I hope so, too!

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Platform specific code in Swift Packages

Hereā€™s an interesting tale of cross platform compatibility from Pol Piella. Normally when someone writes about cross-platform Swift, itā€™s Apple platforms and Linux, in this case itā€™s SwiftWasm and Windows!

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Creating the Illusion of Private Messaging with Celebrities

This fascinating article from Lillian Yang is almost out of what Iā€™d consider the scope of this newsletter, but I couldn't leave it out. Given an infinite number of parallel universes, this ends badly in every one of them. šŸ˜•

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NSSpain X videos

It has been many years since I attended, but I continue to hear great things about NSSpain every year. Thereā€™s nothing quite like being in LogroƱo, but if you couldnā€™t make it this year, maybe these videos will tempt you for next year!

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It has been a while since Objective-C got a mention in the newsletter. Does that make it a good time to link to this well-researched history of nil messaging? I think it does! šŸ™‡

 
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