This week, I chose to highlight the matchedGeometryEffect() modifier because it is a great tool for creating smooth, custom transitions between views — perfect even if you are not confident with animations!

Swift Concurrency provides a cooperative cancellation model to handle task cancellation. This week, we will learn what a cooperative cancellation model is, how to use it, and how to be a good citizen and handle it correctly.

SwiftUI's scrollTargetBehavior provides precise scrolling control, but default paging misaligns in landscape mode. This article explores its limitations and implements a custom ScrollTargetBehavior for perfect paging alignment.

Communications between the Mac menubar and a SwiftUI app are not always straight-forward. Here, I explore some of the possibilities.

Performance testing the new concurrency primitives

Apple released iOS 18.3.1 (build 22D72) to patch a vulnerability tied to the Accessibility framework and reported by Citizen Lab. Let's analyze it!

Bring music recognition to your apps with ShazamKit

In certain situations, when recording audio on macOS using AVCaptureSession and AVAssetWriter, the resulting audio file can sound distorted. This issue is caused by AVCaptureSession reporting CMSampleBuffers of different audio formats.

Learn how to use the Vision framework to detect documents in images.

Learn how to provide an interactive 3d street-level experience within your SwiftUI app.

The contentShape view modifier changes the shape that responds to gestures.

I decided to continue the topic of Swift Concurrency to cover some not-obvious things. This week we will talk about task yielding and debouncing. Swift concurrency language features provide us with two simple but very powerful functions: yield and sleep.…

Don’t overlook these edge cases in your code

Learn how you can use Task.sleep() and Task.yield() in Swift Concurrency. Be aware of the differences to pick the one you need.

At long last, there is now a beta release of Swift 6.1! There are a few interesting things in here for those concurrency enthusiasts out there, and I wanted to go over them quickly.

Occasionally, you’ll come across something that will really influence your thinking on a topic. This happened to me after reading a post on the Swift forums. That was nearly 6 months ago as I write, but I’m still thinking about it today.

While we wait for Apple Intelligence to arrive on our devices, something remarkable is already running on our Macs. Think of it as a locavore approach to artificial intelligence: homegrown, sustainable, and available year-round.

A structured approach using local packages