A series of articles on SwiftUI application development — SwiftUI was introduced over two years ago at WWDC 19 and launched with iOS 13. In that short period of time SwiftUI has generated a ton of interest, a bit of controversy, and a lot of articles. Including my own. I’ve written rather extensively on SwiftUI, on SwiftUI application architectures…

Was WWDC a success? Or a failure? Or both? — Another Apple World Wide Develop Conference is over. We’ve had five intense days of keynotes and roadmaps, sessions, labs and lounges. Five days, during which we’ve been introduced to Apple’s latest operating system updates for iOS, iPad OS, macOS, and watchOS. …

Not what we wanted… but is it what we need? — During the WWDC 2022 Keynote Apple introduced Stage Manager for iPadOS as new way for users to multitask and get things done. And, in typical Apple fashion, this ned feature managed to completely blow everyone’s expectations out of the water. Including my own. To put it bluntly. This isn’t the…

How Apple will (and won’t) bring macOS to the M1 iPad Pro. — It’s been a year since I wrote a story about WWDC 21 and how Apple lost a new M1-based iPad sale due to mismanaged expectations. To put it bluntly, iPad OS 15 wasn’t the OS upgrade I was looking for, and so I moved along. What I wanted, you see…

The price was high; was it worth it? — I’m an iOS developer and I’ve written quite a few articles here on Medium on Swift, SwiftUI, and iOS development, with a few opinion pieces on Apple software, hardware, and business practices thrown in for good measure. I also do some photography and video editing from time to time. But…

Apple seems to have replaced one rather unhealthy obsession with another. — Everyone now knows that Apple introduced a new Mac Studio desktop computer at its Peek Performance event on March 8th. And that the high-end versions run on a new 20-core M1 Ultra chip. Basically two M1 Max chips integrated into a single package. …

How to get your API calls to load once… and only once. — UIKit and UIViewControllers gave us quite a few options in regard to controlling lifecycle events: viewDidLoad, viewWillAppear, viewDidAppear, viewWillDisappear, viewDidDisappear, and so on. SwiftUI, on the other hand, basically gives us onAppear and onDisappear. So if we want to load some data for a view, we typically end up doing…

It’s hard to decide if you don’t know what you need. — SwiftUI’s declarative approach to software development makes it much, much easier to write modern applications for iOS, the Mac, and for the rest of Apple’s ecosystem. But SwiftUI is not without its own challenges and questions, and one of those questions is just what sort of architecture we’re supposed use…

The real question is whether or not they’ll keep listening. — With Xcode 13.2, “you can now use Swift Concurrency in applications that deploy to macOS 10.15, iOS 13, tvOS 13, and watchOS 6 or newer. This support includes async/await, actors, global actors, structured concurrency, and the task APIs.” That’s a direct quote from the Xcode 13.2 Beta Release Notes. This…