Expanding Swift's IDE Support
Swift’s official VS Code extension is now on Open VSX, bringing Swift support to editors like Cursor, VSCodium, Kiro, and Antigravity with code completion, debugging, testing, refactoring, and DocC.
www.swift.org/blog/expandi...
Apple Dev Search
This site is a search engine for Apple developers.
It lets you search thousands of articles from hundreds of Apple development blogs about Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, macOS, iOS, WWDC, and related topics.
appledevsearch.com
Swift Concurrency Agent Skill
This repository is about a Swift Concurrency skill for AI coding tools.
It gives practical guidance for safe concurrency, performance optimization, testing, Core Data integration, and Swift 6 migration.
github.com/AvdLee/Swift...
From Point to Pixel. Rendering Pipeline (iOS, Android, Web)
The article explains how the rendering pipeline transforms UI data into pixels on the screen across iOS, Android, and the Web.
medium.com/@sapsan94/fr...
New In-App Purchase and subscription data now available in Analytics
App Store Connect Analytics got a major update with 100+ new metrics, including In-App Purchase and subscription data, cohorts, peer benchmarks, extra filters, new subscription reports.
developer.apple.com/news/?id=hh6...
Swift 6.3 released with better C interoperability, improved cross-platform build tooling, Embedded Swift enhancements and the first official Swift SDK for Android.
www.swift.org/blog/swift-6...
10× faster Xcode CI builds with slot caching
The article explains how the author reduced Xcode CI presubmit times from 15–30 minutes to about 2.5 minutes by using self-hosted Macs, fixed-path “slot” caches and a generated umbrella Swift package.
jeffverkoeyen.com/blog/2025/12...
Swift at scale: building the TelemetryDeck service
Daniel Jilg explains how he built TelemetryDeck’s backend analytics service with Swift and Vapor, and why Swift turned out to be a strong choice for performance, type safety and developer experience.
www.swift.org/blog/buildin...
Swift System Metrics 1.0 has been announced. It's a Swift package for process-level monitoring (CPU time, memory usage, file descriptors, start time) on Linux and macOS.
www.swift.org/blog/swift-s...
Anthropic has published a catalog of free AI courses through Anthropic Academy, hosted on Skilljar.
It includes training on Claude basics, Claude Code, AI Fluency, the Claude API, and the Model Context Protocol.
anthropic.skilljar.com
Server-Driven UI vs Native: Data Sync Speed
The article contrasts Server-Driven UI (SDUI) with traditional native architectures, focusing on how quickly UI/feature changes reach users
www.digia.tech/post/server-...
Quotio is a native macOS menu bar app that unifies your Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, Qwen, and Antigravity subscriptions – with real-time quota tracking and smart auto-failover for AI coding tools like Claude Code, OpenCode, and Droid.
github.com/nguyenphutro...
Apply now to the Apple Developer Academy in Naples, Italy
Applications are now open for the Apple Developer Academy in Naples (University of Naples Federico II) for the 2026/2027 academic year.
www.developeracademy.unina.it/en/enrollment/
Modular at Scale: Structuring 250+ Modules Across the adidas iOS App Ecosystem
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc-S...
Chris Eidhof explains SwiftUI’s Attribute Graph - how state/environment changes invalidate nodes so SwiftUI recomputes only what’s needed, including relayout without re-running body and why AG warnings like preference loops happen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o6F...
If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design
Skip is now free and open source. Skip - a Swift/SwiftUI-based cross-platform tool for building native iOS & Android apps. Skip 1.7 drops licensing and the “skipstone” engine is on GitHub. It’s moving to skip.dev and is funded via GitHub Sponsors and corporate sponsorships skip.dev/blog/skip-is...
Debugging Strange CALayers in ChatGPT
An article explains a macOS Core Animation race condition that can flip SwiftUI text upside-down.
oskargroth.com/blog/debuggi...
Major iOS/Swift developer conferences in 2026 (dates confirmed)
The full list is on my LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/dima-i...
SwiftUI: Group Activity for REMOTE Synchronized Media Playback
The article shows how to build SharePlay-style synced video playback in SwiftUI using GroupActivities and AVPlayer.
levelup.gitconnected.com/swiftui-grou...
Deterministic Unit Tests in Swift Concurrency
The article explains why unit tests become flaky when a synchronous Swift method starts an unstructured Task and how to make tests deterministic by injecting a TaskProvider abstraction instead of calling Task directly.
dev.to/abeldemoz/de...
Saving $4000+/month with self-hosted runners
The article explains how the author cut macOS CI costs by switching from GitHub-hosted runners to a small self-hosted Mac build cluster, breaking down real build minutes and monthly pricing comparisons.
jeffverkoeyen.com/blog/2025/10...
How to use Claude Code for big tasks without turning your code to shit
The post explains how to use Claude Code for large, complex coding tasks without turning your codebase into a mess.
holdtherobot.com/blog/how-to-...
Interesting security research article about a new class of vulnerabilities in AI IDEs (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, Windsurf, etc.).
maccarita.com/posts/idesas...
This article is a practical guide for iOS developers and content creators on how to optimize videos for iOS, from capture to playback.
www.fastpix.io/blog/how-to-...
Advent of Code 2025 starts today - a series of daily coding puzzles from December 1 to 25.
The Swift community is joining in with a shared leaderboard and a starter template for those who want it. Check out the details here:
forums.swift.org/t/advent-of-...
The sacred secret behind our App's speed
Two Bear app devs share how extreme user edge cases (pastors with 90k+ notes) exposed hidden performance bugs, and how fixing them with better SQL and Swift profiling made the app faster for everyone.
youtu.be/YOM1IrFmavc?...
