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2021-06-08 00:57:51 Some of the WWDC21 features I really liked so far:

Xcode
- The Network template now includes a new Instrument for capturing and analyzing HTTP traffic
- You can now create, review, and merge pull requests using Xcode’s source control features, when signed into a GitHub or Bitbucket Server account
- Swift syntax highlighting in Xcode 13 is immediate and flicker free, both while editing and navigating between files.
- New refactorings help migrate to async code. “Convert Call to Async Alternative” is available on calls that take a completion handler as their last argument
- XCTest now supports test repetition
- Xcode Cloud. Remember Buddybuild?

UI
- Keyboard layout guide
- Native APIs for async image decoding and thumbnailing of images!
- Native bottom sheet?
- UIButton fully supports multiple lines of text

Foundation
- (NS)AttributedString supports Markdown now

SwiftUI
- AsyncImage - a view that asynchronously loads and displays an image
- Finally is able to hide separators between rows
- Custom swipe actions to a row in a list
- AttributedString in SwiftUI
- Pull-to-refresh

AppStore
- Try different app icons, screenshots, and app previews on your default App Store product page and compare their performance to understand what users like most. A/B
- Create additional versions of your product page to showcase different features or content, each with a unique URL

iOS
- iOS 15 brings back the magnifying glass for accurate text selection…
- Apple hasn’t dropped a device from an iOS release since iOS 13 in 2019
- Focus and notifications
- Safari Web Extensions are now available on all Apple devices that support Safari.
- Starting in iOS 15, drag and drop on iPhone is enabled by default.

MacOS
- TestFlight for Mac
- The power of Shortcuts is coming to macOS

and more!

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2021-05-28 22:37:46 What is new in Swift 5.5 besides async | await with actors? Really great features will be released soon!
https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/233/whats-new-in-swift-5-5
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2021-05-25 14:06:47 Starting with the 14.6 iOS (iPadOS) version it's no needed to install a developer or public beta certificate to get an unreleased version of OS.
https://martiancraft.com/blog/2021/05/ios146-is-a-game-changer-for-test-and-development-devices/
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2021-05-24 14:03:04 Popup is a popular pattern in iOS by far, therefore you can notice them across many apps. So if you are wondering about implementing a custom popup in your app using SwiftUI by not considering taking a ready-made solution from Github, this is a great article to read.
https://blog.artemnovichkov.com/custom-popups-in-swiftui
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2021-05-22 00:27:11 Recently Notion introduced the developers api that really intrigued me! Because I lead a pet project with tasks board, specifications, etc. fully in Notion and now it's possible to configure a Notion database and even integrate it to my iOS admin app... All my project related stuff will be in one place - it becomes really better!

So my point is if you are using a storage for collecting some sort of data, consider the following approach as well.

https://ashok-b.medium.com/notion-database-ios-d3c7835c3a53
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2021-05-18 11:22:49 Nice write-up about Efficiency and Performance cores in M1 and how they work in conjunction with Quality of Service (QoS) comparing to Intel models.

Cores shouldn’t all be the same: M1 Macs do better
https://eclecticlight.co/2021/05/14/cores-shouldnt-all-be-the-same-m1-macs-do-better/

How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS
https://eclecticlight.co/2021/05/17/how-m1-macs-feel-faster-than-intel-models-its-about-qos/amp/
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2021-05-14 11:26:05 Not so technical article but the Instagram team emphasizes some aspects of the app that could be more fluid and responsive with little details of implementation. I wish more apps were fluid as Threads.
https://about.instagram.com/blog/engineering/on-building-a-fluid-user-interface
#instagram #iOS Open / Comment

2021-05-10 20:19:32 Wow, it's a great chance to become a contributor to Swift!
https://swift.org/blog/swift-mentorship-program/
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2021-05-10 16:58:58 Consider the fact Swift Actors are available in the beta toolchain so far, nevertheless, we can play around with it by following great examples.
https://trycombine.com/posts/swift-actors/
#swift #concurrency Open / Comment

2021-05-03 11:51:52 Found an advanced thread about Dynamic Type fonts. An author compares preferred fonts with system fonts + UIFontMetrics in the leadings behavior. No so a popular topic, but in the case of implementing dynamic font need to be aware of it.
https://twitter.com/featherless/status/1382146916402790401?s=21

: https://threads-web.vercel.app/threads/1382146916402790401

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