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We all make mistakes, but I just show 50,000 people my mistakes šŸ«£
 

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ISSUE 652  March 15th 2024

 
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I received two types of emails in response to last weekā€™s introductory comment. The first type had phrases like ā€œNo warnings at all? Wow!ā€ and ā€œIā€™m surprised you didnā€™t get anything at all!ā€ and the things said in the other type of email were much more along the lines of ā€œYou didnā€™t switch on the checks properly.ā€ šŸ«£

Yes, itā€™s true. I made a huge mistake with last weekā€™s intro, where I used enableUpcomingFeature instead of enableExperimentalFeature. Itā€™s crystal clear in the documentation that the former is for Swift 6, and the latter is for Swift 5.9/5.10. I was running with Xcode 15.3, which includes Swift 5.10. šŸ«¢

Itā€™s much more straightforward if youā€™re switching it on for Xcode, but if you are testing this with a package, thereā€™s a subtle difference between the two.

What tripped me up was when I tried inserting some code I copied from Matt Massicotteā€™s Concurrency Recipes repository to test that I had the checks enabled correctly. I knew the code would trigger a concurrency warning, and sure enough, a warning appeared as soon as I pasted it in! What I didnā€™t realise is that that warning would have appeared before I added the strict concurrency flag, too. šŸ˜¬

Iā€™ve been making lots of silly mistakes recently, and itā€™s frustrating. I used to have such an eye for detail, and in my mind, I like to think I still do. That said, errors like this are not uncommon for me these days. I donā€™t think Iā€™m quite old enough yet for it to be age-related, so itā€™s more likely to be the constant context-switching that I put myself through. I often close a window to find a stack of windows with an embarrassingly high number of half-completed tasks. Youā€™d think I would have got the hang of it by now. šŸ˜¬

Anyway, the long and short of it is that we do not have zero strict concurrency warnings in the Swift Package Index. We have 526! There appear to be a few common root causes though, so Iā€™m sure that number will come down quickly when we start fixing them. šŸ› ļø

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Google's Response to the Digital Markets Act

I wonā€™t try and make any comment on this other than to link to it, but this is an interesting round-up of what Google already had, and whatā€™s changing over in Android-land around the DMA legislation. Just remember that everything you read here is obviously biased, being written by Google.

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New App Store, iOS, and CloudKit data analytics now available

Fifty new reports in App Store analytics is nothing to sneeze at, and thatā€™s what Apple has recently added to App Store Connect. Itā€™s also great to see all this data available via the API. Apple seems completely committed to making that API a priority when they make changes. šŸ‘

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Building Tiny Games in Swift for the Playdate

The Playdate was an impossible-to-resist purchase for me. Panic software and Teenage Engineering hardware are a powerful combination, and the device is a delight. It has an SDK, too, but can you write software for it in Swift? Now you can!!! ā¤ļø Rauhul Varma has been working on making that happen, and hereā€™s his write-up.

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Swift Tooling on Windows

Arc for Windows entering beta is a clear indication that itā€™s possible to write Windows apps with Swift. Building a browser is no trivial task! Hereā€™s Jeremy Day with a round-up of the state of tooling is for Swift on Windows, covering writing code, debugging, and even building for Windows arm64.

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If you use UserDefaults in an app

Isnā€™t that ā€¦ every app? If this applies to you then Craig Hockenberry has something youā€™ll want to read before you next upload a release to the App Store.

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SwiftUI Tasks Blocking the MainActor

What a great reminder from Keith Harrison that compile time errors are not the only thing you can do wrong with concurrency! šŸ˜¬

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Hacking Disneyland's App to fix a Freeze

I really enjoyed Bryce Paukenā€™s latest video on fixing a bug in the Disney app. Iā€™ve never seen a more straightforward demonstration of the techniques he uses here. šŸ‘

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If youā€™d like to see your job featured in iOS Dev Weekly, post it on iOS Dev Jobs and select ā€œFeatured listingā€ as you check out, and itā€™ll be in next weekā€™s newsletter. šŸŽ‰

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Swift puts Breakout on the Playdate. JavaScript puts it in Google Calendar! šŸ˜

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