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SwiftLee Weekly by Antoine van der Lee

SwiftLee Weekly - Issue 249

Published 16 days ago • 5 min read

This week's SwiftLee Weekly covers:

  • Exploring Apple Intelligence
  • SwiftUI Design System
  • Mutable let in Swift

Enjoy this week's SwiftLee Weekly!

THIS WEEK'S BLOG POST

​SF Symbol: How to for Swift & SwiftUI​

Remember the days you've had to search for a specific icon all across the web? We can be blessed with the quality of SF Symbols, which we can use for free in our apps. This week's article covers everything around the 6,000+ symbols you can use, from animations and variants to creating custom symbols using vector exports.

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CURATED FROM THE COMMUNITY

​Migrating XCTest to Swift Testing​

I’ve been using Swift Testing for a while now and prefer it for any of my projects if possible. This article helps you migrate an existing project from XCTest to Swift Testing.
​useyourloaf.com​

​let is a lie (sometimes)​

You would say you can never mutate a let in Swift, but is that true?
​swiftwithvincent.com​

​Be careful wrapping a throwing function in a Task​

While the Swift compiler in Swift 6 language mode helps a lot, some cases might surprise you when writing concurrency code. This example by Vincent Pradeilles is another one of those.
​swiftwithvincent.com​

​Exploring Apple Intelligence: Image Generation​

We’re still at the beginning of the AI possibilities within Apple’s APIs. Unfortunately, the available APIs confirm this thought, although there are already a few APIs to play around with.
​createwithswift.com​

​How to change your app's business model from paid to freemium using StoreKit​

I’m reading a book on growing a startup as we speak, and one of the chapters talks about pivoting and changing business models. It’s crucial to find product market fit, and this article by Pol Piella can help you execute.
​polpiella.dev​

SWIFT EVOLUTION

An overview of last week's Swift Proposal state changes. Check them out when they're in review, as it's your opportunity to influence the direction of Swift's future.

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

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Is there room for newcomers in the iOS newsletter space, and how can a newsletter audience be grown?
— Anonymous

I'd love to answer this question more generally since it seems to resemble another question I often get asked: "Is it still worth writing an article on this topic with so many others already published?" or a similar one about creating a new app.

When I started my blog in 2015, I wrote many articles already published by others. My words, my explanation, worked better for some developers. Your writing will be different, and you will likely cover various aspects of the same topic that will help at least someone on the web.

It's the same for a newsletter. Even if you start a curation newsletter that might look similar to mine or any of the other newsletters out there, I'm sure you'll find subscribers who prefer yours. That could be because they're unaware of other newsletters or just because they like your curation over others.

In my opinion, you should never let yourself be stopped just because someone else is doing what you like. You can do something different, maybe even better, and build your own audience with that.

Growing your audience will be challenging—not for the actual growth but for the so-called "Valley of Disappointment." I cover this topic in my course, and it relates to the idea of expected growth not lining up with actual growth. It takes time to build an audience, and there are many ways to do it. I can't list all the details in this small section of my newsletter, but if there's one thing: consistency, make sure to deliver a newsletter of high quality on a consistent day, and your subscribers will follow.

Good luck!

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