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SwiftLee Weekly by Antoine van der Lee

SwiftLee Weekly - Issue 306

Published about 2 months ago • 4 min read

This week's SwiftLee Weekly covers:

  • Fight Google and Apple Reviews
  • Agent Skills explained
  • Inline arrays in Swift

Enjoy this week's SwiftLee Weekly!

THIS WEEK'S BLOG POST

​Agent Skills explained: Replacing AGENTS.md with reusable AI knowledge​

AI development changes so fast, it's hard to keep up! I'm doing my best to dive in, but one step at a time. Before jumping into a new MCP, tool, or anything, I want to have the idea that I own the current workflow. One thing I've recently added are Agent Skills and they've had a major impact on the code quality of my agent tasks.

I also decided to introduce a dedicated AI Development SwiftLee category, so expect more articles to come! And finally, the above article is also available as a YouTube video:

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CURATED FROM THE COMMUNITY

​Understanding Spring Animations in SwiftUI​

Go in-depth on spring animations in SwiftUI with this detailed article from Create with Swift, full of demonstration videos.
​createwithswift.com​

​Swift Modules and Code/Assets Duplication​

What if assets get duplicated by Swift packages? Paulo Andrade encountered this, explains the issue, and shares a solution.
​pfandrade.me​

​CKSyncEngine questions and answers​

If you’ve used CloudKit, you know it can be frustrating sometimes. Not because it’s a bad API, but because it’s a challenging technology. Christian Selig is here to share his expertise.
​christianselig.com​

​InlineArray in Swift - Memory Efficient Fixed-Size Arrays​

New in Swift 6.2: Inline arrays. Designed to improve performance and memory efficiency. Not needed for everyone, but if you do need it, you can use this article by Sagar Unagar.
​sagarunagar.com​

​My Beef with the iOS 26 Tab Bar​

The new Liquid design on iOS has gotten a lot of opinionated feedback. The tab bar got a fresh design as well, and is customized by many apps already. Ryan Ashcraft dives deeper into this specific UI element.
​ryanashcraft.com​

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.

WHAT I'M WORKING ON

Fighting App Reviews

I couldn't really describe it differently. Last week, I tried to get my YouTube app approved for TestFlight. It got rejected because my Google OAuth app was not approved. That one got rejected because my app name was not valid according to Google's terms.

So I found a new app name, purchased another domain, reconfigured everything, and submitted again. Rejected.

My app was sending data to AI services, which is not allowed according to Google's terms.

Long story short: my Google OAuth app is now approved and I'm working towards the first TestFlight build for my new app called Vydio. For those following my YouTube series on this app: I'm recording a fresh update video on all of this later this week!

UNTIL NEXT TIME

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Thank you so much for your support, and until next Tuesday,

Antoine

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