SwiftData simplifies data persistence in SwiftUI with seamless iCloud sync, but differs from GRDB/SQLite.swift in flexibility and performance. Understand its strengths, limitations, and key considerations before adopting it in your project.

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Expose your app actions to Siri Make with the App Intents framework.

Learn everything about Swift initializers — convenience override, saving memberwise initializer, required init() use cases, parameterless UIView() and more!

Hey there! So I’ve been diving into architectural patterns lately, and it’s been quite the journey. I wanted to share some thoughts on how the design decisions we make can have these ripple effects throughout ... <a title="The Composable Architecture: How…

Changing the default behaviour of a scroll view to center content only when it's smaller than the scroll view container.

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I actually don’t get too many questions about SwiftData or Core Data. And thank goodness, because I’m not particularly familiar with either. That is, until just recently! I had the chance to work with two different projects, both of which were using SwiftData.…

A few weeks ago, we discussed Task Groups in Swift, which is an explicit way of executing multiple concurrent tasks and waiting for them to complete. This week, we’ll delve deeper into the topic by exploring the async let syntax in Swift, which offers a convenient…

In this article, we’ll explore a common performance issue in iOS applications: the UI hang caused by heavy computations running on the main thread. We’ll cover how to detect hangs using t…

Swift 6.1 is now available!

Today we’re delighted to introduce the first stable release of swiftly, a Swift version manager that takes the pain out of installing, managing and updating your Swift toolchain.

Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.

Use Instruments to analyze the performance, resource usage, and behavior of your apps. Learn how to improve responsiveness, reduce memory usage, and analyze complex behavior over time.

Let’s be honest: the path we’re about to take in this article isn’t a simple one. If you’re considering this approach for your app, you…

Learn how to use the Vision framework to track body poses from a video feed within a SwiftUI app.

Learn how to expose a search functionality of to the system with App Intents.