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2022-03-31 12:49:27 Starting today, with the update of App Store Review guideline, developers of reader apps, that provide one or more of the following digital content types — magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, or video, can now request access to the External Link Account Entitlement. This entitlement lets reader apps link to a website that is owned or maintained by the developer, so that users can create or manage their account outside of the app.
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=grjqafts
#Apple #news Open / Comment

2022-03-22 14:09:56 Just faced the issue with exporting a build. If your app uses new concurrency features with enabled bitcode, be aware of this workaround in new Xcode. Open / Comment

2022-03-21 18:15:57 I think most of us have written preview-like code. This code looks fine, except for one detail - the reference to self inside, so it's really important to add lazy var instead of let. Unfortunately, in my case Xcode didn't point me out on this issue and a bug that was reproduced only on one device was created. But I'm happy to share that starting with Swift 5.6 there's an Xcode warning. For those who haven't upgraded to the Xcode, there's a Swiftlint warning as well - self_in_property_initialization (0.45.0v)
#Xcode Open / Comment

2022-03-21 13:18:10 Recently I posted about publishing a DoсC documentation as a static website. But with Swift 5.6 there's a Swift DoсС Plugin that simplifies this process a little more.
https://www.createwithswift.com/using-the-swift-package-manager-command-plugin-for-swift-docc/
#Swift #DoсC Open / Comment

2022-03-14 22:03:58 Xcode 13.3 is finally here.

Some of the features I’m happy to see:
- Xcode can now build documentation from your Swift code in executable targets, like apps and command-line tools.
- The build system and Swift compiler have a new mode that better utilizes available cores, resulting in faster builds for Swift projects (need to enable it manually)
- Swift Packages now support build tool plugins. This allows packages to define plugins that can specify tools that should run during a build operation, for example to generate source code.
- You can now write inverted availability conditions using the new #unavailable keyword
- ... more Swift 5.6 feature

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-13_3-release-notes

#Swift #Xcode Open / Comment

2022-03-01 15:26:29 Really interesting dive into how containers such as List, Stacks work under the hood using Variadic­View to modify individual children. A nice addition that you can use the same approach for build your own containers.
https://movingparts.io/variadic-views-in-swiftui
#SwiftUI Open / Comment

2022-02-26 10:56:24 As DooC gains popularity these days, we may see more great articles on that subject. It's also worth mentioning that Xcode 13.3 will allow writing documentation even for usual apps, not only for packages. Starting with Swift 5.6, it adds the official support for transferring docs to static hosting options, such as Github Pages, which the author talks about in this article.
https://www.createwithswift.com/publishing-docc-documention-as-a-static-website-on-github-pages/
#DooC #documentation Open / Comment

2022-02-22 21:05:56 As you all know, Apple presented their own CI/CD system at last WWDC - Xcode Cloud. While it's still in beta, a developer can submit an access request to play around though.

To simplify this process an author prepared two articles (so far):
- how to enable Xcode Cloud, test and distribute apps
- more advanced article about the use of custom build scripts and environment variables.

If you're already familiar with Xcode Cloud, just skip the first post and dive into the second one. I'm sure this will help you to avoid some of the non-obvious pitfalls and save your time.

#Xcode #xcode_ci #CI Open / Comment

2022-02-22 11:21:44 There're many excellent articles about TaskGroup, but most of them cover some common scenarios. Marin, the author of Modern Concurrency in Swift prepared a more detailed post by revisiting his slides from iOS Conf SG 2022. So if you know the basics of TaskGroup, this fictional example will surely improve your concurrency skills.
https://trycombine.com/posts/swift-concurrency-task-group-workflow/
#Swift #concurrency Open / Comment

2022-02-08 20:32:14 Apple prepared online sessions with experts to get your questions answered about the latest App Store features: product pages, subscription experiences, custom offer codes, and in-app events.
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=z83vywin
#Apple #AppStore Open / Comment