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Apple Vision Pro – Impressions from an App Development Agency

Apple Vision Pro impressions are everywhere. If you want to step back from the usual user reviews and see the big 3D picture, read what a product strategist, a designer, an iOS and an Android developer have to say about Apple’s trending headset.

Byte-sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate

Over the holiday season, I read about building Playdate games in C and became curious if the same was possible in Swift. For those unfamiliar with Playdate, it is a tiny handheld game system built by Panic, creators of popular apps and games like “Transmit,” “Nova,” “Firewatch,” “Untitled Goose Game,” and more.

Using @_silgen_name to forward declare functions in Swift and improve build times

he trick I'm going to show here is quite powerful, but like every other underscored attribute in Swift, this is something you should avoid messing with unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Test-Driven Development (TDD) for bug fixes in Swift

Test-driven development (TDD) is a technique that requires you first to write a failing test before you start implementing a solution. While it’s a technique developers use during general development, there’s a way to apply it only for bug fixes.

Global actors in Swift

The Swift language allows us to define thread-safe types using actors. Actor type automatically manages exclusive access to the data it protects. But what if we need multiple types protected with a mutually exclusive access? That’s why we have global actors, and today, we will learn how to use global actors in Swift.

The Best iOS Libraries in 2024

Third-party libraries shorten development time, provide easy access to additional features, and help us focus on the core aspects of our projects. Once again, we present you with our selection of the best iOS libraries of the year.