Learn how to detect text truncation in SwiftUI using fixedSize and GeometryReader, and dynamically select adaptive layouts with ZStack and layoutPriority to ensure text content displays fully without being cut off.

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Take advantage of the updated search placement and behavior in iOS 26, and implement toolbar and tab bar search patterns that adapt across devices and integrate with the new Liquid Glass design.

Swift 6.2 introduces a new Observations type to stream state changes from an Observable type.

This post explores how to build a simple but convincing refractive glass material in Metal. It assumes you have some familiarity with…

Let me take you through the journey of how I went from achieving 85% memory reduction on a common user interaction. While casually exploring the app, I noticed something off: the RAM footprint would…

Apple introduced the Observation framework a few years ago. The Observation framework became the main tool for building observable models, replacing the Combine framework. This week, we will talk about a new piece of the framework called Observations.

We are excited to announce the public beta of our upcoming, powerful SQLite + CloudKit synchronization tools.

Explore the challenges of migrating Combine to Swift Concurrency and understand the potential risks involved.

Explore the concept of a global actor in Swift Concurrency and learn when to use it for safe, serialized access to data.

Swift 6.2’s Default Actor Isolation reduces boilerplate by inferring isolation for unmarked code, but brings new actor-boundary rules and macro challenges

I used the following tutorial series from Apple on ‘Capturing and Displaying Photos’. They’re great. Just that it took me a bit to be able to piece together how components from AVFoundation work together.
Working with AVFoundation isn’t really the kind where…

Learn how to schedule and manage alarms within your application using AlarmKit

Discover how to create and personalize user interfaces for alarms using AlarmKit with SwiftUI.

There are cases where just a little more visibility and control over how to schedule asynchronous work can make all the difference.

You’ve mastered “Hello, Assembly!” and peeked inside registers. Now let’s plunge into pointers, arrays, function calls, iteration, and memory regions. You’ll learn how ARM64 turns high-level constructs into pointer arithmetic, branches, and stack frames—and…

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Learn what's new in UIKit in the iOS 26 SDK.

New feature for yesterday, too long backlog of bug tasks and this crazy new crash that started occurring randomly out of nowhere... No…

Over the past few days, I got really hung up in my attempts generate data structures using Apple Foundation Models for which the exact shape of that data wasn't…

Use a shared Core Spotlight search index to make content discoverable in system Spotlight and support internal search within the app.