April 29th, 2025

Swift News is taking a break until Monday, June 2nd (right before WWDC). I have to miss a couple weeks due to travel, and I want to get my new app launched before the craziness of WWDC takes over. So, I'm pausing YouTube videos till the end of May (they are VERY time consuming).

So, enjoy this edition of Swift News and I'll talk to ya in a few weeks 👋.

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​Swift News - Video Version - Get my thoughts on the articles below.

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​Advice to My Younger Self​

This article shares sage advice from a long-time app developer. I found myself nodding along quite a bit as I read this article. If you're early in your career, this is a must read. Even if you're senior, this is a good refresher.

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​Native visionOS platform support for Godot​

Godot is an open-source 2D & 3D cross-platform game engine that a lot of indie developers use to create all sorts of games. An Apple engineer recently on the visionOS engineering team recently submitted a pull request that allows native visionOS platform support.

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​Swift Measurements​

If you deal with measurements in your app link meters, feet, centimeters, astronomicalUnits, etc... You MUST read this article. Swift has a Measurements struct that does a lot for you when it comes to conversions and formatting.

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​Special Effects with SwiftUI Text​

Paul Hudson has a great new YouTube video where he shows you how to use the new TextRenderer protocol and Metal to create some awesome text effects. If you're a child of the 90s... you'll love this one.

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​App Store Subscription Setup Guide​

Setting up an app with subscription in-app purchases is a complex and tedius process. And to be honest, it's pretty intimidating the first time you do it. Superwall and Jordan Morgan have you covered with an in-depth guide to walk you through it.

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​Flappy Swift​

I can't even break double digits in this game because I can't stop trying to read the code as a pass by the "pipes".

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Till next time,

Sean