Apple opens applications for the 2026 Swift Student Challenge, inviting students to submit app playgrounds for a chance to win prizes and recognition.
A guide to using 'vibe coding' with AI to build your first iOS app, starting with product specification and prompt creation.
A developer shares the technical process and code for converting a paid iOS app to a freemium model, including handling legacy users.
Explores how AI coding agents impact internal code quality, using a case study of adding GitLab support to a Swift app.
Introduces Agent Skills, an open format for sharing reusable AI knowledge across projects, replacing project-specific AGENTS.md files.
A tutorial on using Apple's Vision framework to extract text from images in Swift, covering both old and new APIs.
KeyboardKit 10.2 introduces a new on-device dictation engine for keyboard extensions, enabling private, voice-based features.
A Swift developer reflects on their first full year as an indie developer, covering milestones, project growth, and launching a Swift Concurrency course.
A developer's reflection on how AI coding agents, particularly GPT-5 and Codex, have dramatically accelerated software development by handling routine coding tasks.
A developer reflects on their year of shipping apps and games, closing a podcast, and plans to focus on marketing and updates in the new year.
An iOS developer announces a conference talk comparing React Native and native iOS development, based on extensive industry experience.
A new dependency-free HTML5 parser for Swift called swift-justhtml is introduced, with performance benchmarks comparing it to implementations in Rust, JavaScript, and Python.
A developer's story of creating a screen-based ring light app for video calls, only to have Apple 'sherlock' the idea with a built-in macOS feature.
Explains how to localize Swift packages using Xcode's string catalogs, covering benefits, drawbacks, and improvements in Xcode 26.
Learn how to use Apple's MetricKit framework to collect detailed app performance diagnostics and build a monitoring dashboard.
Explores Xcode 26's improved string catalog features for localizing Swift Packages, addressing previous drawbacks and automating symbol generation.
A developer shares essential Xcode project configuration changes to prevent technical debt and improve Swift concurrency safety from day one.
A developer built Asdfghjkl, a macOS tool for controlling the mouse cursor precisely using keyboard-driven grid navigation.
The author introduces new GitHub Actions workflows for their Swift Package Scripts project, automating tasks like building, testing, and documentation.
A tutorial on using Apple's Image Playground framework in Swift to generate images via text prompts and source images.
