Just as Swift 4.2 brought some interesting features, the release of Swift 5.0 will bring several as well such as raw strings, dynamically callable types, and compactMapValues for dictionaries. Of course, the biggest feature of Swift 5.0 is ABI stability.
The good news is you can try out these new features now by using the Swift 5.0 development branch.
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Last week I spoke at the LaDev in Ann Arbor on what it takes to go out on your own as a freelancing software developer and entrepreneur.
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On October 11, I spoke at Ann Arbor Cocoaheads at ArborMoon and gave some swift development tips. Specifically based my experience developing Speculid for macOS as well as Try!Swift New York.
There are times where Objective-C is still necessary for Swift development. For instance, with one such app I’ve built in Swift, Speculid, I needed to bring Objective-C code in. With the introduction of C++ libraries in version 2.0, Objective-C became necessary. Luckily there are ways to make both Objective-C and Swift work together in a friendly fashion.
Asset catalogs are collections of specialized files (such as graphics files) as well as JSON files containing metadata. The metadata from the JSON files are used for organizing the specialized files and denoting their purpose within the set. In the case of graphic sets like Image Sets, they contain several pieces of information.
Asset Catalogs are the key component in
Next Thursday on October 11, I’ll be speaking at the Ann Arbor Cocoaheads at ArborMoon on developing Speculid for macOS as well as my thoughts from Try!Swift New York.
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I have to say I had a great time at try!Swift New York this year. I have been to many developer conferences over the years but lately I have been attending mostly business and startup conferences (i.e. MicroConf and Release Notes).
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Leo Dion from BrightDigit was recently a guest on the podcast iPhreaks discussing MicroConf, customer discovery, info products, meetups, and building an exercise app for the Apple Watch.
In today’s episode, the iPhreaks panel talk to Leo Dion about MicroConf and writing apps for Apple Watch. Leo has been a developer for almost two decades and six years ago he created his own company called BrightDigit. He mostly focuses his time and energy to the Apple space and enjoys developing apps for the iPhone, iPad, and the Apple Watch. They talk about what happens at MicroConf, what he is working on now, tips for starting a meetup, and more!
You can check out the episode here.
We have setup the iPhone to request authorization and the Apple Watch. Let’s begin a workout and track the user’s heart rate with HKLiveWorkoutBuilder. In short, HKLiveWorkoutBuilder simplifies the way we track health data during workouts.