Issue 144
Dec 06, 2022

I’ve wondered before how apps would test moving locations in maps. Alexey Alter-Pesotskiy gives me insight into one of the solutions you can use to simulate a moving location in XCTest.

Frenchkit released their recordings, including my talk regarding existential any, opaque types, and generics. I’ve been giving this talk at several conferences, but if you didn’t watch it yet: it’s a great introduction to the Swift 5.7 changes.

I didn’t know about this great tip from Arnaud Joubay. If you’re using the AppStorage property wrapper but you’re also using a non-standard user default storage, you’re going to benefit from this API.

Don’t worry: I will not write this newsletter or my articles using ChatGPT. However, Moritz Philip Recke does show the value AI can bring to us. It’s insane to see complete SwiftUI apps generated by AI in seconds.

Pol Piella shares his story of creating a Swift Command Line application to fetch statistics about GitHub Action metrics. While learning to build such a package, you’ll also get inspired on metrics to track and how to use the GitHub API to your advantage.

I’m not using Xcode configuration files that often anymore. However, if you’re managing multiple targets or want a better overview of customized settings, this technique described by Danijela Vrzan can become handy.