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This week's SwiftLee Weekly covers:
- Swift 6.2' new String Interpolation feature
- When should you use an actor?
- A better way of matching strings in tests
You've might noticed I'm sending this out later than normally, and that's for a reason! It's Apple event day. Here are the most important links for this week:
And the most important date:
If you want your app's update to be available on day 1 of iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and visionOS 26, you have about one week to go.
Good luck and enjoy this week's SwiftLee Weekly!
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THIS WEEK'S BLOG POST
A common UI element: toggles. This week's article tells you all about it, including an important accessibility consideration, different toggle styles, and how you can use a custom binding.
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CURATED FROM THE COMMUNITY
Dealing with optionals in String Interpolation always felt cumbersome, but this new Swift 6.2 feature, demonstrated by Keith Harrison, will change that!
useyourloaf.com
Exceptions for specific OS versions are common these months, but sometimes tricky in SwiftUI views. Ralf Ebert shares a few great ways to deal with them.
swiftui-garden.com
Well, when should you? If you doubt, it’s recommended to read this article by Matt.
massicotte.org
The Text element in SwiftUI can be styled in many ways. In fact, before reading this article by Anton Gubarenko I didn’t know there were so many ways!
antongubarenko.substack.com
I’m confident you’ll recognize the issue solved by this library from Sam Deane. It’s at least a pain I recognize from my failing tests!
elegantchaos.com
I love the journey shared in this article by Fatbobman. The concurrency migration leads to all kinds of warnings and errors, and you might find yourself revisiting this article’s solution soon.
fatbobman.com
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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.
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SWIFT CONCURRENCY COURSE
My Swift Concurrency Course now offers 65 lessons and 10 assessments. Hundreds of developers already started- and completed the course, many of which shared their certificates on platforms like LinkedIn.
Altogether, it's now a complete course and no longer work in progress. While I continue to update its contents, I do end the limited launch offer at the end of this week. This is your last opportunity to get a 20% discount—don't wait too long!
WHAT I'M WORKING ON
Post Holiday — Back to Business!
The past two weeks I've been enjoying a two-weeks holiday in the south of France. Quality time with the family, energizing for the remainder of the year.
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While I always continue publishing articles and newsletter issues during my holiday, the rest of my projects kind of paused. You can imagine I'm thrilled to kick off coding again!
I'm putting priority on the following things:
- A new free 5-day email course launching later this month
- RocketSim's major macOS Tahoe update
- New performance related lessons for my Swift Concurrency Course
Prioritizing between these is hard sometimes, but time-related events guide me forward. I also prefer adding low/high effort, low/high impact labels to issues, which helps me prioritize accordingly.
To end more specifically, I'll be working hard on the major release of RocketSim this week. If you didn't do so yet, join the TestFlight here.
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EARN ROCKETSIM LIFETIME
Share and Earn RocketSim Lifetime & free Swift Concurrency Course access
Apple has recognized RocketSim as an Essential Developer Tool in the Mac App Store, and now you can get lifetime Pro access by sharing your unique referral link!
How to get started:
[RH_REFLINK GOES HERE]
Rewards:
Several subscribers have already helped me reach more developers and gained free access to RocketSim Pro and my Swift Concurrency Course — will you be next?
Thank you so much for your support, and until next Tuesday,
Antoine
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